The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-02-16
FIVE MILL LEVY.
CARRIED IN LEVY
APPROPRIATION MEASURE PRO.
VIDES FOR EXPENDITURE
OF $5,671,6S4.47.


The, general state appropriation bill,
carrying a five mill levy and an ag-
gregate of S5,671, ,Ss4.47 for the opera
ton and maintenance of state de-
rartments, institutions and agencies,
was introduced in the house OF rep
resentatives by the ways and means
committee Tuesday night. The total
appropriations provided for in the
bill are s1,O95, ,45O.65 less than the
amount carried in the 1921 approprl-
alton measure, which carries a re-
duction of s7s4,555.4s under the s6,-
466,240.15 recommended by the gov
ernor in the 1922 budget.
The five mills provided for in the
bill levied on the s452, ,49O,6O0 taxable
property in the state, according to
Chairman Hughes, will raise s2,262,-
45s of the s5,671, ,6s4.67 appropriated,
while departmental and institutional
fees and collections will bring in
1891 900. This will leave a deficit OF
SEATS, ,231 ct to be raised for the re-
managing portion of the fiscal year
BY the new revenue measures, now
up for consideration in the senate
cl in the hands Of the conference
committees. "The amount so estl-
mated ss derivable from the new tax
sources" Mr.. Hughes says, "is ex-
tremely conservative and if all the
revenue bills sent to the senate by
the house are agreed to by that body
and become law it is probable that
the conference committee may be
able to reduce the levy by one-half
or one mill. If, however, the reve-
nue. bills agreed to by the house are
killed by the senate just in such
proportion will the levy have to be
raised by the senate" The appro-
priation bill, were none of these new
revenue sources made available, Mr.
Hughes said, would require a state
tax levy of 10 1-2 mills as compared
with the IL mill levy Of last year.
The ways and means committee in
the bill have seen fit to reduce the
clerical help of the state receiving
over 81 200 annually, 10 per cent OF
their salary, except in a few instances
The salaries Of state officers are not
reduced, nor do the members OF the
general assembly prune their own
salaries. In at least one case, that
Of corporation clerk in the office OF
the secretary Of state, the position
is entirely abolished. No appropria-
tion is made for extra auditors un-
Ger the comptroller general to re-
view county books. The wages OF
all porters in the State House were
reduced, some of them by amounts
as large as 80 per cent.
Among the larger cuts, compared
with the appropriations Of 1921, were
the comptroller generals office, S1S,-
600; the Citadel, $500, 900; State Med
ical college, $4,000; John de Ia Howe
school, $4,000; school for deaf, dumb
and blind, s55,000; superintendent OF
education, s350,000; state hospital
ss5,OOO; state penitentiary, $4,000;
industrial school for boys, $56, 900; re-
formatory for negro boys, $4,000;
law enforcement fund, $4,000; state
house commission, $4,000; state elec'
trician, $4,000; state highway COM
mission, $4,000; and Confederate in.
firmary, $4,000.
Of the colleges, the university gets
an increase of $1,000 over the ap.
preparation for 1921, Clemson college
an increase Of $4,000 and the state
negro college an increase Of $4,000
Winthrop college was cut, approx
mately $1,000. Among the items al
lowed the university was an appro-
p1iation Of $4,000 for plans and esti-
mates on a women's dormitory to
be erected there in the future. The
entire building program Of the Cita.
del was disallowed.