Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-28
RETURN OF The GRAND JURY
York COunty'S Grand Inquest Makes
g. Final PreSentment.
DISCHARGED TUESDAY AFTERNOON


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SAfter having been in session all OF
Monday and Tuesday in which time it
passed upon many grievances the York
county grand jury was dismissed late
Tuesday afternoon. The following
members of the grand jury were drawn
for service again next year: r. K.
Bigger, E. M. Dickson, j. T. Cornwell,
j. p. Adams, r. r. McCleave, j. L.
Moss. Judge Sease took occasion to
compliment the body upon their work
saying that York county was to be
congratulated upon having such an
efficient corps of public servants. Be-
fore discharge the following final pre-
sentiment signed by r. A. Barnett,
foreman, was submitted to the court:
I'VE, the grand jury of York county
beg leave to submit the following:
u. We have considered and passed on
all bills and indictments handed to US
by the solicitor and returned same
with our findings thereon.
seour committee on courthouse and
jail. reports as follows; ...-.-..
I'VE the undersigned, appointed sub
committee to examine the Jail and
courthouse, respectfully report:
SgThat we have inspected the jail, and
finn everything there in good shape.
The prisoners are we'll treated and
looked after properly. and their sur
ronndinss. are comparatively neat and
clean, and we have no fault to find
with anything we saw there.
- Would Move Standpipe.
We find the rear Of the courthouse
leak,ng, and recommend that the
county commissioners take steps at
once to remedy this defect. Our en-
tire body recommended sometime ago
that the commissioners purchase what
Unknown as Law Range, at the rear OF
thee courthouse and have courthouse
completed according to original plans,
soaas to prevent this leaking, and we
are informed that the legislature at its
last session. made provision for this
work TO be carried out by the county
commissioners, but for some reason
this has not been done, and we recon-
mend that it be attended to at once, as
the. courthouse building is deteriorat-
ing in value on account Of the delay.
Our entire body also recommended
sometime ago that the authorities of
the town of York be required to remove
the standpipe from its present location,
because it. was a menace to the court
house property and endangered lives in
It's present location. We have been
Informed that the life of standpipe is
twenty-five years and the standpipe at
THE rear Of the courthouse was erected
twenty-siX years ago, and we recon-
mend that the authorities Of the town
Of York be required to remove the
same at once.
- Should Lock Courthouse.
We recommend that the courthouse
be locked up on Saturday Nights and
on Sundays, for the reason that ire
sponsible parties drinking extracts
throw their bottles into the closets and
stop them up, and this occurs so fire.
quently that it is constant expense
to the county to unstop these closets.
We recommend that proper steps be
taken to stop this habit, which is be-
coming a very expensive nuisance to
the county.
The committee on roads and bridges
sdbmit the following as their report:
We have examined the roads and
bridges and find that no great amount
of work has been done on any Of the
main roads and the by-roads Of county
and the small bridges have not been
attended to 1--WE recommend the proper
authorities be instructed to work and
repair bridges at once) number OF
complaints have been received from
different roads as to bridges being
down.
The committee on schools and school
houses submit the following as their
report: g.
:" Committee on schools and school
houses visited most of the schools in
the county in company with Supt. of
Education and found them all in good
condition and attendance was good.
chainsang Conditions.
Ell Our committee appointed to make an
inspection of the county chain gang
}yisited that institution on the Sth day
Of August in company with the
Super visor Boyd. We found the con-
victs about 80 in number, all able
bodied and in good health, at work on
the piece of concrete road between
Rock Hill and the new steel bridge over
.Catawba river. The livestock was in
good condition and showed evidence OF
.gbod care and feeding. We visited the
camp and made a right close inspec-
tfon Of the kitchen car the sleeping
quarters of the convicts and the
quarters provided for the foreman, the
guards and other employees. We went
over the entire grounds and found
everything REASONABLY clean. and well
kept, and that proper attention seems
to be- given to the sanitation of the
camp. The entire situation is such
that reflects much credit on the