The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-01-13
NEEDS NEW EXECUTIVE MANSION
Deals Further With State Finance,
Education, Dispensary Law, Agri-
culture, Confederate Veterans and
Monument to the Women of South
Carolina.


sells message was read before the
Senate and House of the General AS
sembly Tuesday, and is in part as
follows:
To the Honorable, the Members of
the General Assembly of the State
of South Carolina:
1t becomes my duty, under the
Constitution of the State, at this,
the opening session of your honor
able bodies for the year 1910, to give
to you such information as | have as
to the condition of the various de-
partments of the State and to sug-
gest and recommend such legislation
cas- to me seems meet and proper.
The year 1909 has been one Of
much prosperity in all lines. Your
duty, therefore. as the makers of the
law which is to govern this great
people, is more grave and momen-
tous, and | beseech that you bring
to the discharge of these duties your
best thought and Judgment.
States Finances.
During the present fiscal year. it
became necessary for the Governor.
State Treasurer and the Comptroller-
General to borrow the sum of five
hundred thousand dollars in antici-
patton of the collection of taxes, to
pay off the interste OIL the State
debt, pension for the Confederate
veterans, the other appropriations
made by you at the last session. and
to pay the expenses OF the State
government for the year. We were
fortunate in being able to borrow
this money at three per cent through
the Palmetto National Bank of the
city of Columbia. The notes given
for this amount are now being paid
ont of the taxes collected for the
year.
In order to place the State OH a
cash basis without borrowing each
year, / recommend that you levy an
extra one-half mill for the next few
years, placing the same in the
hands of the Sinking Fund Com
mission to be loaned TO the State,
until sufficient amount has been
thus raised, to do away with the
necessity of borrowing
Sinking Fund.
wish to call your attention to
the report of the Sinking Fund Com
mission which will be placed on your
desks during the session. The as
sets, as shown by said report, are as
follows:
Cumulative Sinking Fund (for re-
demption and payment of South Car
olina Brown 1-2 per cent bonds),
500, ,20S.58.
Ordinary Sinking Fund. $79,2OS47.
Sinking Fund for insurance of
public buildings, $5l ,028.9O.
Several losses have been paid dur
ing the past year from this last nam
ed fund. The largest being the in
surance on the dormitory and school
building of the COlored Normal Col
lege at Orangeburg, which was de-
stroyed by fire in December of last
year, the amount paid on this loss
being $3.50.
The Sinking Fund Commission, in
accordance with the power granted
it by the last act of the General As
sembly has contracted to lease the
old State dispensary building in the
city of Columbia for a term of
three years, and the automatic
sprinkling apparatus is now being
put in the building as authorized by
said Act. The rental price is 81 200
per annum, and eight per cent upon
the amount expended OH the i'm
provements made. BY making this
lease we save to the State the FIVE
dollars per day and night that we
now have to pay for watchmen and
will receive twelve hundred dollars
per annum and eight per cent on the
antount of expenditures for the i'm
p<oysments put on the building.
~ In$ obedience to the last Act of
you honorable bodies, we advertised
the property for sale at the upset
price You placed upon it, but re-
eeived no bids. We then made the
lease above mentioned.
Education.
Marked progress has been made
during the present year i'm the edu-
eational institutions of the State.
The increase in attendance in the
common schools, as well as in the
high schools and colleges, is greater
than in any year in our past history.
"A reference to the admirable report
of the State Superintendent of Edu-
cation will verify the above asser-
tion. New and better school houses
are being built, and many Of the
school districts are taxing them