The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-04-27
STATE OF GEORGIA, COBB


Judge Superior Court of Said Coun-
ty:-
We, the Grand Jury, sworn, chosen
and selected for the March Term,
1922 of said Superior Court, beg leave
to make these our general presents.
Through our committees we have
inspected the public buildings, con-
Wet camps, county poor farm, and
other matters pertaining to the coun-
tvs welfare, and give below their re-
ports.
| We find the public buildings be-
longing to the county, and the va
rious Offices in fairly good condition,
out recommend that the overhead
plastering in the Tax Collectors Of
fee be repaired, as in the opinion of
the committee it is considered dan
gerous. We have also examined the
jail and find it in good condition, we'll
kept, but badly in need of some re-
pairs which we note have been recon-
mended by previous grand juries,
some of the window lights are out
and have been out for some time and
we join with the previous grand ju
ries in recommend that these re-
pairs be made at once.
We have inspected the books and
dockets of the various Notary Public
and Justice of the Peace of the
County, and find that the same are
neatly and correctly kept; also find
some vacancies and some whose time
has expired, and we recommend the
following: we recommend that C. P.
Wallace, 845th District, be reappoint-
ed to succeed himself; we recon-
mend that j. W. Mize, 846th district
be reappointed to succeed himself we
lals orecommend that B. M. Ford be
appointed ofill the vacancy in Red
Rock district.
The County School Commissioner
having notified this body that there
are three vacancies on the county
schol board and we select the follow
ing to fill the cavancies:W E.Butner,
c. M. Bishop and DR.. c. D. Bannis-
ter.
We have examined the books and
records of the various county officers
and in so far as we can tell in our
limited time these books are neat and
and correctly kept, but attach to
these presentments reports of said of
ticers to this body, together with an
audit of the receipts and expenditures
of the Commissioners of Road and
Revenues, said audit on file in the
Commissioners room available to the
public inspection.
+ We have inspected the county aims
house, and find it well kept and in
sanitary condition. In our opinion,
| Mr.. Prather is a good man for the
place and the inmates all speak we'll
of him, but after investigating the
expenses of maintaining the farm for
the past year, we find that they are
too much, and recommend that the
farm be run on an economical basis.
We find &c inmates, supplies on hand
as follows: IL joints of meat and 5
sides; SO gallons of syrup, 5000 bun
dies fodder, 2 tons hay, rs bushels
corn; ten acres sown in wheat and
five in cats. We find the following
stock and tools; two mules and wag-
on and tools sufficient to run the
farm; three milk COWS and three
heifers, and IA head of hogs. We
md that the concrete floor on the
east porch in bad and dangerous
condition, these conditions having
been mentioned which has not been
received with any attention: we now
JOIN with them and recommend that
these repairs be made at once. We
find that the house occupied bv the
superintendent and the house occu
pied by the colored inmates badly in
need OF covering and we recommend
that this be done.
We find that an inmate of the farm,
is beng paid by the commission
ers $1,000 per month for his dutios
at the farm, which is firing the fur
mace and we recommend that in os
much as he and his wife are both in
mates of the home that this nractico
De discontinued and his name he Iof+
Off the pay roll. ~ :
We find the convict camps in fair
ly good condition, prisoners well fed
and clothed. On thorough investiga-
ton we find that this part of the
County's affairs is largely response
Die for the heavy burden of taxation
now imposed upon our people. This,
we believe after investigation is large
ly due to the fact that we have been
unable to find one in authority for
certain improvements and expert
mental projects that are being made
IN our county at heavy expense, to-
wit: one bridge known as Hargroves
bridge which is built entirely out of
line with the road, we recommend
that the bridge be changed to CORE
spond with tn road, or that it be NOV
ed back to the old road, and be done
at once. We find that our county
convicts are building sidewalks on
Atlanta road, the same being done
without the authority of our road
commissioner, and we recommend
tnaG our commissioners build no side
walks in the country and that this he
discontinued. We find installed IN
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