The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-11-15
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, November 10, 1905.

Presentment Of the Grand Jury
The State of South Carolina,
County of Lexington,
In General Sessions.
To the Honorable Grand Jury, Act
ing for lexington County, said
State, for the year 1905:
We, the Committee, consisting of
Isaac Edwards, II. L Koon and D.
81. Craft, appointed by your Honor
able body to Investigate the bonds OF
the various county officers and the
condition of their several Offices, beg
leave to make the following report:
We investigated The bonds of the
several county officers and find them
good and sufficient, and their Offices
in excellent condition.
Upon our investigation we found
the Office of Clerk Of Court in neat
and convenient condition, and found
an intelligent set ef books we'll kept
ready for the information OF any one
at any tine.
We found that Geo. S. Drafts,
Judge of Probate, still maintains his
firm and sound Judgment in the care
and protection If the estates and
other business which come into bis
Office. That be has very neat and
handy get of books for the business
of his Office
The books and ofice of J. E Rawl
Kyzer are we'll kept and show the
wise and discr- ct disbursements OF
the school funds of the county. The
management of his Office ia quite
satisfactory.
We found the County Auditors
Office crowded with books and old
records, but the Auditor, Mr.. G A.
Derrick, fully able and ready to ex-
plain the operations Of the office, and
with his usual correct calculations,
ready at any time to show the most
minute part Of the different funds
arising from taxation.
MIR. Frank ". Shealy, the polite
and genial County Treasurer, has
we'll balanced set of books showing
the receipts of the county's funds, as
we'll as the, expenditures and dis
bursements.
Mr.. r L Keis!er, Chairman of the
Dispensary County Board OF Control,
has remarkably we'll kept and neat
set OF books showing the receipts
and expenditures of the different
dispensaries of the county, with the
net profits, and fully sble to show
and explain every item of the dis
pensary business conducted in this
county.
We found the books of the County
Commissioners we'll kept by their
Clerk, Col J. Brooks Wineard. and
the expenditures in the Office very
economical, as considered to the
many benefits arising tberefrom In
the visit to the poor house We were
especially impressed with the aboun-
dant supply and excellent quality of
corn, peas and peavine hay. The
upper story Of the barn was filled to
it's utmost capacity with long food
and the lower one with corn, peas
and other grain. The land is we'll
cultivated and the garden is fine.
We found the couaty Jail clean
and in first class condition. Sheriff
Corley has everything around it in
we'll finished and neat condition and
it shows the hardiwork of q we'll
equipped and ever ready Sheriff. The
The Sheriff's Office is we'll kept and
his books show active and energetic
work, balancing to the cent with all
other Offices.
Upon the whole We congratulate
the county in having 40 good and
we'll qualified Get of officers. They
keep their respective Offices in first
class condition ready to give infor-
nation desired at any time.
We thank the grand jury at large
for the confidence repo-ed in US and
have discharged our duty in every
particular as best We could.
All of which is respectfully sub
mitted. Isaac Edwards,
For the Committee.