SOUTH CAROLINA. 





Finances. The following is a summary of 

 the receipts and expenditures of the State treas- 

 ury for the fiscal year : Total receipts, $1,129,- 

 893.41 : cash balance, Oct. 31, 1889, $60.142.82 ; 

 total, $1,190,036.23; total expenditures, $1,112,- 

 092.30 ; cash balance, Oct. 31, 1890, $77,943.93, 

 as follows : General account, $3,943.06 ; Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. $33,622.27; Sinking Fund 

 Commission. $39,837.40 ; special account, $1,- 

 041.20; total, $1,190.036.24. Of the total re- 

 ceipts, $722,752.47 were derived from taxes of 

 1888-89, $19,801.51 from taxes of 1889-'90, 

 $237,149.06 from phosphate royalty (being an 

 increase of $23,047.10 over the receipts for 1889). 

 $42,569.85 from the Agricultural Department, 

 $10.564.24 from sale of escheated property, 

 $72.800 from temporary loans obtained from 

 banks, and the balance from miscellaneous 

 sources. Of the total expenditures, there were 

 paid for interest on the public debt, $382,229.36, 

 for liabilities incurred in previous years $114,- 

 992.89, and for current expenses of the State gov- 

 ernment the following sums : Executive depart- 

 ment, $47,299.25; judicial department, $67,- 

 176.57 ; legislative department, $65,891.32 ; 

 health department, $10,600 ; tax department, 

 $24,806.77 ; State University, $47,500 ; Citadel 

 Academy, $22,900: Clemson College, $43,000; 

 penal and charitable institutions, $131,460.82: 

 Department of Agriculture, $23,835.58 ; pensions, 

 $49,994.20; militia, $14,000; election expenses, 

 $7,661.45 ; railroad commissions, $7,500; Win- 

 throp Training School. $5.320 ; taxes refunded, 

 $8,669.41: miscellaneous objects, $79,082.72. 



The total State debt on Oct. 31, 1890, amount- 

 ed to $6,992,919.49, divided into five classes as 

 follow: First, the Agricultural College scrip 

 amounting to $191,800: second, the blue 4^-per- 

 cent. bonds and stocks, amounting to $400,000, 

 due in 1928; third, deficiency stock not yet sur- 

 rendered, amounting to $759.95, due in 1888; 

 fourth, principal of old bonds and stocks not yet 

 rendered, amounting to $389,429.22; fifth, con- 

 sol bonds and stocks, amounting to $6,010,930.- 

 32, due in 1893, of which $5,442,019.18 are brown 

 consols, and $568,911.14 are green consols. The 

 Legislature in 1889 passed an act authorizing 

 the refunding of the brown consol bonds and 

 stocks upon certain terms, but it was adjudged 

 by the Attorney-General to be unconstitutional, 

 as the new bonds were to be made payable more 

 than fifty years after date of issue, which is ex- 

 pressly forbidden by Article IX, section 14, of the 

 State Constitution.' This defect was remedied by 

 the Legislature of this year in December by an act 

 providing that the new bonds shall be payable 

 within the constitutional period. 



Valuation. The assessed valuation of prop- 

 erty for the fiscal year 1889-'90 was $150,088,552, 

 of which $88,113,453 was the value of real estate, 

 $44,069,185 the value of personal estate, and 

 $17,905,914 the value of railroad property. The 

 total assessment for 1888-'89 was $145,420.016. 

 The tax rate for that year was 5 mills on each 

 dollar of valuation, ami for 1889-90 there was 

 but a fractional change. 



County Debts. The total debt of South 

 Carolina counties is $1,141.550, a decrease of 

 $432,209 in ten years. Of this total all except 

 $23.900 is a bonded debt. Nearly half of the 

 counties have no debt. 



Loarislative Session. Tin- iv-ulur annual 



sion of the General A m,lily began on Nov. 

 25 and adjourned on Dec. 24. As ih.- mefflben 

 of each House were nearly nil Tilliimn iidher- 

 ents and farmers by occupation, much int-n-t 

 was aroused regarding the manner in \\hich I!I-M- 

 representatives of the Tillman movement would 

 carry out their ante-election promises. Their 

 first action was to dispense with tin- wn 

 legislative officers and employes who had lout; 

 held their places, and to choo>Y pronounced Tilf- 

 man followers to succeed them. They rejected 

 United States Senator Wade Hampton, wl. 

 was a candidate for re-election, and chose as his 

 successor John L. M. Irby, one of the most act- 

 ive workers in the Tillman canvass. The vote 

 on the first ballot in joint convention stood as 

 follows: Irby, 63; M. L. Donaldson, 45; Hamp- 

 ton, 42 ; John J. Hemphill. 2. On the fifth ballot 

 Irby received 105 votes; Hampton, 42; Donald- 

 son, 10. During the session 235 acts and re-olu- 

 tions were passed, of which only 44 were general. 

 The Department of Agriculture and the office of 

 Commissioner of Agriculture were abolished, and 

 all their powers and duties, except the control 

 of the phosphate industry, were bestowed upon 

 the trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College. 

 An act was passed creating a board of phosphate 

 commissioners, consisting of the Governor, At- 

 torney-General, Comptroller-General, and two 

 citizens of the State to be appointed by the Gov- 

 ernor for six years. The board is charged with 

 the exclusive control and protection of the State 

 interest in the phosphate deposits, except that 

 the Comptroller-General shall continue to re- 

 ceive the reports ot rock mined and dug and the 

 royalty paid into the State treasury. 



An act for the reorganization of the State 

 University provides for the transfer of its Agri- 

 cultural Department to Clemson Agricultural 

 College, and confines the work of the institution 

 more narrowly to liberal studies. The constitu- 

 tional amendment abolishing the elective board 

 of county commissioners, which was adopted by 

 the people at the November election, was ratified 

 at this session, and thereby incorporated into 

 the fundamental law. By another act all the 

 trial justices in the State were legislated out of 

 office, and it was provided that future appoint- 

 ments to that office be made by the Governor for 

 a term commensurate with his own term. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



To incorporate the city of Florence. 



To provide lor the appointment of county board of 

 physicians to examine diplomas of physicians and 

 surgeons. 



To punish frauds or misrepresentations in the 

 manufacture, analysis, or sale of fertilizers and com- 

 mercial manures. 



To incorporate the city of Camclen. 



To amend an act entitled " An Act to provide U 

 the redemption of that part of the Stwte debt known 

 as the brown consol bonds 'and stocks, by the issue 

 of other bonds and stocks," approved Dec. 24, A. i>., 



Accepting the benefits of an act to apply a portion 

 of the proceeds of the public lands to the more com- 

 plete endowment and support of the colleges for the 

 benefit of agriculture and the mechanic nrts 

 tablished under the provisions of an act ol < r_ - 



Joint resolution to appoint a special commiesion, 

 consisting of the Governor and Superintends 



