The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-01-13
Delegation Meeting.

The Legislative Delegation met will
the county Board of Commissioners OF
Jan. 9th. All the members OF boti
:. the Delegation and Board were pres
ert.
:, l got in late and the business of tn,
meeting seemed well under way. AT
ter listening for while I understood
> from statement Of the Supervisor il
reply to a question from the Senator
!, that, the county debt, exclusive O
: bonded debt, was only seventeen thous
and dollars. Now we all remembe,
that the auditing of the county's rec
ords showed twenty-one thousand
two hundred and eighty two 2l,282
dollar debt.
Now if the 4 1-2 mill levy raised a
sufficient sum to pay the running ex-
pense of the county and four thousand
dollars on the county debt, cutting it
from twenty one thousand to seventeen
thousand dollars as reported by the
Supervisor, then the same levy will in
a very few years pay off the entire
debt.
This sounds good, but we know there
is a mistake some where, for the i -
mill levy will not raise enough money,
fines and licenses included, to run the
county.
We find as stated by the Supervisor
that the - mill levy to pay the inter-
est on and create sinking fund to re-:
tire the ten thousand dollar bonds for
back Indebtedness, will be no longer
needed for that purpose, because the.
ten thousand dollars has already been
raised to pay this debt.
I sugges ted that the three dollar
Communication tax be released to two
which was agreed to, then wanted to
make it optional, that is, either work
six days or pay the tax. / tried to eX-
plain that it would be very difficult for
some 20 raise the money but that they
could Go the work. On this PROPOSE
tion l was by myself, all the other
members of the delega ton wanted to
force all liable to road duty to pay the
tax I hope they will not hold to that
when they realize the hardness of the
times and the scarcity of money, which |
evidently they have failed thus far to
do.
The next question before US l be-
lieye Was the tax assessment on taking
of returns, this costs the county some
twelve hundred dollars each year and
has up to present proved . failure in
that the township assessors failed to put
the property on the tax books, so we
decided to DO away with the three
assessors in each township and 60 back
the plan of letting the auditor take the
I
tenn Of taking returns, for l believe 1t
is the ideal way to get the property
listed for taxation, the only change
needed is, to put one man IN each :
township, then he would be responsible
for the whole township, favoring no
one on which TO lay any blame, the
work would be more thoroughly done
than where there are three. Then TOO,
this one man could be put under bond {
for the faithful discharge of his duties.
was glad to learn that the rural
police were turning in sufficient money
lu fires to pay their salaries, so that :
work comes to without any cost in the !
way of taxes. I wish the county news :
papers would secure and publish each }
week copies of the reports OF the rural
police. That is done in other counties I
Ind I think it should be done here so
hat the public might know what is be-
ng done.
The salary of the Clerk of the county
Board was raised from two to three
hundred dollars per year, and properly
20 for there is not only more work to
De done in the Supervisors Office but
he people are more exacting. {
Very respectfully, t
Bob White. I