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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



In 1890 there were also in the State 20 Chi- 

 nese and 172 Indians. 



Finances. The following is a summary of 

 the operations of the State treasury for the fiscal 

 year: Cash on hand Oct. 81, 1890, $77,943.93 ; 

 receipts from all sources, $1,073,752.98; total 

 expenditures, $1,087,081.89 : balance on Oct. 31, 

 1891, $04,615.02. The receipts were derived 

 from the following sources : From taxes 1889- 

 '90 and back taxes. $776,895.57 ; from phosphate 

 royalty, $184,502.46; privilege tax on fertilizers, 

 $53,285.85; sinking fund commissioners, $18,- 

 788.29; railroad assessments, $9,748.48; official 

 fees, $8,970.07; special funds, $17,459.22; other 

 sources, $4,111.04. The expenditures may be 

 classified as foHow : Legislative expenses, 

 $42,652.01; public printing, $22,199.73; educa- 

 tional, charitable, penal, and sanitary institu- 

 tions, $201,762.34; Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege, $107,878.35 ; pensions, $49,191.82 ; commis- 

 sioner sinking fund warrants, $27,106.35; inter- 

 est on public debt and expenses, $354,520.75: 

 loan under act 1889 and interest, $50,500 ; com- 

 pletion of State House, $17,577.30; election ex- 

 penses, $16,377.56; refund taxes, $10,479.31; 

 maintaining militia, $10,413; salaries, $142,- 

 446.09 : other purposes, $33,977.28. 



During the year the Sinking-fund Commission 

 purchased and retired brown consols amount- 

 ing to $26,911.72, thereby reducing the total 

 bonded State debt to $6,406,606. The debt is 

 classified as follows: Brown consols, $5,393,- 

 076.70; blue 4^-per-cents.. $400,000; brown 4- 

 per-cents., 1890, $29,396.70 ; Agricultural College 

 scrip, $191,800; deficiency stock outstanding, 

 $717.72; bonds imd stocks still fundable in 

 brown consols, $391,614.88. Under the acts of 

 1889 and 1890, the State Treasurer has made but 

 little progress in exchanging the Brown consols 

 for the new 4-per-cent. bonds authorized by those 

 acts, only $29,396.70 being exchanged. In addi- 

 tion to the funded debt, the State owes a large 

 floating debt, amounting to $489,197.33, of 

 which $271,890.07 is due for unpaid interest and 

 $106,608.07 for unpaid appropriations. The 

 State has pi-actically no sinking fund. 



Legislative Session. The regular annual 

 session of the General Assembly began on Nov. 

 24 and adjourned on Dec. 24. The act of 1889 

 providing for refunding the brown-consol bonds 

 and stocks due in 1893 was amended at this 

 session so as to allow the Governor and the 

 State Treasurer to offer a commission to per- 

 sons who place the new bonds. All the funds 

 in the State sinking fund, and the sum of 

 $30,000 in addition, were appropriated to pay 

 such commissions. An anti-free-pass law was 

 enacted, prohibiting any person while a member 

 of the Senate or House of Representatives. State 

 or national, or any State or county official, or 

 any judge of a court of record, from using any 

 free pass, express or telegraph frank, or Com- 

 plimentary ticket, or from riding on any railroad 

 in the State without paying the usual fare. 

 Transportation companies were forbidden to is- 

 sue such passes, or to give any special rate to 

 such officials. 



Emigrant agents, who in recent years have in- 

 duced many negroes to leave the State, were 

 prohibited from plying their vocation, except 

 under conditions, every such agent being re- 



quired to pay to the State annually a license fee 

 of $1,000 for each county in which he does 

 business. 



Provision was made for distributing the money 

 received from the United States as a refund of 

 the direct tax to the persons who originally paid 

 such tax, or to their legal representatives. The 

 sum of $4,000 was appropriated to be expended, 

 under the direction of a public-record commis- 

 sion, in obtaining copies of documents from the 

 public archives of England which relate to the 

 early history of the State. 



An institution for the training and higher 

 education of white girls was established, under 

 the name of the South Carolina Industrial and 

 Winthrop Normal College, the location to be 

 determined by the board of trustees of the insti- 

 tution. The grounds, buildings, and equipment 

 must be secured and transferred to the State 

 without expense on its part, but the State under- 

 takes the management of the institution after it 

 is thus equipped. The members of the Lower 

 House of the General Assembly were reappor- 

 tioned to the several counties according to the 

 census of 1890. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Providing that no crop mortgage shall convey any 

 interest in any crop other than that raised during the 

 year in which the mortgage is given, and unless the 

 land on which it is to be raised shall be described in 

 said mortgage. 



Accepting the provisions of the act of Congress 

 under which the direct tax of 1861 was refunded to 

 the several States.. 



To protect and encourage the planting and culti- 

 vation of shell-fish, to create the office of fish com- 

 missioner, and to authorize the granting of franchises 

 for the use of certain lands under water belonging to 

 the State. 



Requiring the Sinking-fund Commissioners and 

 the Fish Commissioner to establish regulations for 

 the protection of the natural oyster beds of the State. 



Education. For the school year ending in 

 1891, 93,024 white children and 116.535 colored 

 children were enrolled in the public schools, a 

 total of 209,559. The average length of the 

 school year was 3*21 months. 



The South Carolina University, which has ex- 

 isted for nearly a century, was reorganized under 

 the act of December, 1890. so that its work is 

 now confined to liberal studies, the departments 

 of science and agriculture having been trans- 

 ferred to Clemson Agricultural College. This 

 change has reduced the number of students. 

 For the school year 1890-'91 the number of at- 

 tendants was 182-, while for the session of 1891- 

 '92 96 were matriculated. Work has progressed 

 during the year on the buildings for the Clem- 

 son Agricultural College, and though they are 

 not near completion the roll of applicants for 

 admission numbered 870 at the close of the 

 year. There had been expended up to Oct. 31. 

 1890, in the erection of buildings $17,085.35, and 

 during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1891, 

 $106,127.26, making a total of $123,213.61. 



At the South Carolina Military Academy 

 there were 166 pupils during 1890-'91. 



Charities. During the year 311 patients 

 were admitted to the State Insane Asylum. 394 

 were discharged, and 747 remained, of whom 432 

 were white and 315 colored. The total income, 

 including $100,000 appropriated by the State, 



