The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-07-25
CONVICTS' ACCOUNTS
PRISONERS IN PENITENTIAY WILL
BE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY 70
SAVE MONEY.
one-Fourth Of Earnings VIII Be Paid
Upon Completion of Sentence
of Each One.

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Frankfort.-A savings account for
the benefit of prisoners in the state
penitentiaries will be established, be-
ginning August /, and hereafter a GER
tain per cent of earnings of each pris-
oner will be allowed him by the board
of prison commissioners This was
decided upon at meeting of the COM
missioners. 1t will entail additional
bookkeeping, both at the prisons and
In the auditors Office, as separate
account must be kept with each pris-
oner and may require extra clerical
help.
The action of the board, the com
missioners said, has the approval of
Gov McCreary. 1t is done under an
act of the general assembly authoriz-
ing the prison board to credit to the
account of each prisoner an amount
not to exceed 20 per cent of his pro-
portion of the average per capita Of
earnings, provided that the money be
paid the prisoner or his family, at the
discretion of the board, and that 25
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he retained in the treasury to be paid
to the prisoner at the time of~his
final discharge.
1t is estimated that the sum accru-
Ing to the prisoners will aggregate ap-
proximately $4,000 annually, and
though this will be lost to the state
treasury, the governor and the COM
a. - ;,
law, designed to save the prisoners
upon their discharge from going out
into the world destitute, and to anne
iiorate the condition of their depend
ent families. They also hope it will
have good moral effect on the pris-
oners to realize that they are earning
something for themselves and help
ing to maintain their families.
Express Company Files Suit.
First of large number of injunc-
ton suits expected to be filed to pre-
vent the state board of valuation and
assessment making the tentative as
sessments on corporation franchises
final, has been filed in the United
States district court for the Eastern
division of Kentucky here. The Adj
ans Express Co. is petitioner and re-
straining order pendente lite was
granted, the hearing to be held at
Maysville. President w. M. Barrett
upon affidavit of Charles r. Barrett,
brought the suit against Auditor Hen
ry Bosworth, Secretary of State Gre
cellus and Treasurer Thomas Rhea,
composing the, board. Injunction must
be sought before the assessment is
made final, the only recourse after
that being on the ground that the as
sessment was made Illegally.
The company alleges that it is CO.
partnership, and after setting forth in
detail it's statement of assets filed
with the state board OK valuation and
assessment, declares in its petitions
that its fpenchise assessment should
not exceed $119,271,93, whereas the
tentative assessment returned by the
state board is s$1,664,64o, and it says
it's state taxes should be $1,000, but
that if the tentative assessment made
by the board is made final it will be
compelled to pay $4,000 to the state.
Scabies Nearly Eradicated.
DR.. A. j. Payne, veterinary inspector
for the Bureau of Animal Industry.
department of agriculture, who has
been in Frankfort since last Septem-
Der, has gone to Louisville to take
charge of the Office in the custom
house.
Dr. Payne, working with the state
sanitary board, has been paying par
ticular attention to sheep scabies.
Within a year $4,000 head have been
inspected, and there remains, SO far as
known, only one flock in Scott county
not treated. The infected territory has
been reduced to half-dozen counties
in the blue grass, and hope is now en-
tertained that the disease will have
been eradicated within another year.
The territory west of the Green and
Barren rivers is now free from quaran-
tine.
One of the results Of the inspection
for scabies has been to disclose the
presence in Kentucky of a quarter
million more sheep than were returned
to the state for assessment.
Test Suit is Filed.
A suit has been filed in the Frank
lin county circuit court by Charles E.
Mason, against County Court Clerk
Crawford Lee, Of this county, who re-
fused him a hunters license because
he declined to pay rs cents for taking
his affidavit. The attorney general
held that the fee of Is cents to come
out of the license charge of 81 Is all
the clerk is entitled to. But Lee in
sists that this does not cover the aft
davit, which every applicant is re
Squired to make. The plaintiff is q
lawyer and the suit was filed as a
test case.
Election Board Makes Appointments
The state election board appointed
the following election commissioners
for McCreary county: Avery Viii
liams, Democrat, and w A. Meadors
Republican, of Pine Knot. The board
also filed the following vacancies: C
n RoIdrick Democrat In Marion tr