Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-09
MUSE BILL TO REGULATE
HIRING OUT OF CONVICTS
Authority Transferred From Governor
and Council OF state, to tn.
Prison Hoard.

lop'CI1i 10 Inc ines DISPATCH.
RALEIGH. y. c., January S.-Scn-
ator c. NJ. Muse. of Carthage. intro.
duced in the Senate to-day bill to
regulate tho hiring out of State con
YictS that provides for transferring
from the Governor and Council Of
state, to the State Prison Board, the
right to hire out convicts, and pre-
scribes that the prison board shall
hire them out only for money value
considered by the board to be reason
able. II specifies that Il sufficient
number shall be retained at all times
At the State farm for it's proper Gull
ttvaton IT is especially designed to
put an end to working convicts for
stock in railroads being constructed.
as at present. The bill specifies April
]. 1915. as the time the act would
be effective.
bill In the Senate b. Senator Nash
would provide for arhitral courts to
De composed of the clerk of the Sprer-
Tor Court and two others in any county
where differences arise that are to lie
hrbitrated. and prescribing the ma
chiherE TOT forming the courts ana its
conduct
In long division of the annual APP
preparation of the s25oOO0 that the
state sets aside for the public schools
OF me state. and which is just appor-
toned by the State Board of Educa-
I'LL Gavin vi TIE 1It,Zbl school chill
dren In the State gets an educational
benefit of just 3lG cents for the cur
rent school year. However,, on this
basis numbers of the counties fall heir
to considerable sums. Mccklcnbure
leads with s7.257. Wake is second with
s''23'. other counties receiving $4,000
OF more are: Alamance. s3,0l6: Beau
fort. S3,0l5; Buncombe 1854; Catawba.
S3.4si: Cleveland. s3.3G6: Cumberland.
80 Davidson. s3l7l; Davie. sl37G:
durham. S3,S52; Forsyth s5,523: Gas
ton, 1919: Guilford. sG.425; Halifax.
$500; Iredell, $3.50; Johnston. s.II3:
Nash. 1852: Pitt. $3.50; Randolph,
s3,327: Rockingham. s3.eSs: Rowan,
sf'"s'; Sampson S3.33i: Surry. s3.3OS:
Union. S3,s15; Wayncm. s37aa. Wilkes.
S".51O; Wilson. 1884. New Hanover
county gets S2.cll: Fender. sI,d95:
,'runswick, si.527: Duplin, s2.G5s Co
initbus, S2.30s, and Kobcsor t5.OIS
Az soon as each OF the county boards
receives its respective apportionmcnt
the law requires that it ascertain how
much more is required to bring the
schoo! terms in the county up to the
four months' minimum, and then a lew
Oh spcciai taxes for this purpose is
made. Then there Is available an
equhliZing fund that will 20 toward
making the schools as much more than
iour months as possible. Last year the
school terms averaged nvc months the
state over.
The members of the three Farmers
Institute parties that are 10 go into
all parts OF Central and Eastern Caro-
lima during January and February
holding institutes under the direction
OF I. y. Parker. of the farmers insti-
I tutc division of the Department Of
Agriculture are to be In session here
January 1913 for special institute
training I'm preparation to start out
| Immediately thereafter. II Is a notable
fact that the institute work the past
year brought together 71.Sl9 farmers
and their wives and daughters in all
sections of the State
This was the first day OF the Raleigh
post-of'icc In the new quarters i'm the
enlarged and rcmodcled government
building. All the departments of gov
eminent have now been moved back
into the remodcled building, and few
cities the size OF Raleigh in the coun-
try have government buildings as hand
some and thoroughly creditable as that
with which Raleigh is now favored
Postmaster Wills G.. Briggs personally
selected the most approved post office
equipment for the very much enlarged
quarters, and inspectors who have vis-
tied post offices throughout the country,
declared that none is better equipped.