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SOUTH CAROLINA. 



SOUTH CAROLINA, a Southern State, one of 

 the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 May 23, 1788; area, 3,750 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 249,073 in 1790 ; 345,591 in 1800 ; 415,115 in 

 1810 ; 502,741 in 1820 ; 581,185 in 1830; 594,398 

 in 1840; 668,507 in 1850; 703,708 in 1860; 

 70.->,606 in 1870 ; 905,577 in 1880; and 1,151,149 

 in 1890. Capital, Columbia. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Benjamin R. 

 Tillman, Democrat ; Lieu tenant- Governor, Eu- 

 gene B. Gary ; Secretary of State, J. E. Tindal ; 

 Treasurer, W. J. C. Bates ; Comptroller-General, 

 W. H. Ellerbe ; Attorney-General, T. L.McLau- 

 rin until Nov. 30, then D. A. Townsend ; Super- 

 intendent of Education, W. D. M'ayfield ; Ad- 

 jutant-General, H. L. Farley ; Railroad Commis- 

 sioners, D'Arcy P. Duncan, Eugene P. Jervey, 

 H. R. Thomas ; after the passage of the new rail- 

 road law the legislature elected T. A. Sligh, D. 

 P. Duncan, and H. R. Thomas as Railroad Com- 

 missioners ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Henry Mclver ; Associate Justices. Samuel 

 McGowan and Y. J. Pope. 



The governor and his cabinet entered upon 

 their second term of office on Nov. 30. 



Finances. Following is a summary of the 

 treasury accounts for the year ending Oct. 31, 

 1892: 



Interest due and not called for, $177,880.73 ; 

 interest from January 1, 1880, to July 1, 1892, on 

 $268,288.15, $201,216.11; sinking fund commis- 

 sion. $36,861.34; direct tax fund, $60,623.70; 

 Morrill fund, $66,000 ; balances appropriations 

 unpaid, (about) $70,000 ; unpaid accounts, 

 $8.808.03 ; total cash liabilities, $621,389.91. 



General account, $29,455.83 ; sinking fund 

 commission, $36,861.34 ; privilege tax on fer- 

 tilizers, $320 ; department of agriculture, 

 $1,114.52; redemption deficiencies, $998.97; es- 

 cheated estates, (cash) $2,729.73 ; Downer fund, 

 $864.93 ; direct tax fund, $60,623.70 ; Morrill 

 fund, $66,000; Clemson bequest cash account, 

 $2,779.86 ; total assets, $201,748.90; net cash 

 liability, Nov. 1, 1892, $419,641.01. 



The receipts for the year ended Oct. 31, 1892, 

 including balance on hand, were $1,326,787.46. 

 The expenditures were $1,125,038.56. 



The moneys received from the United States 

 on account of the Morrill fund belong to the 

 agricultural colleges at Orangeburg and Fort 

 Hill. An account of the plan for refunding the 

 State debt may be found under the head " Legis- 

 lative Session." 



Valuations. The total valuation of the prop- 

 erty in the State is $168,871,227. about $600,000 

 more than last year. The constitutional tax of 2 

 mills for school purposes has a tendency to keep 

 the assessments low and make the levy for State 

 purposes correspondingly high. This was 5 mills, 

 but was raised to 5 by the last legislature. 



Education. The South Carolina College at 

 Columbia is not in a satisfactory condition. The 

 legislature of 1891 discontinued the institution as 

 a university, and made of it a literary, classical, 

 and scientific college. The attendance, which 

 was 226 in 1889-90, had fallen to 98 in June, 

 1892, and at the autumn opening was but 70. 



Clemson College is not yet opened, but it is ex- 

 pected that it will be ready in May, 1893. The 



funds arising from the privilege tax, and those 

 given by the United States Government known 

 as the Hatch, the Morrill, and the land-script 

 funds were found not to be sufficient, as it had 

 been hoped they would be, to build, equip, and 

 run the college ; and consequently the legislature 

 was called upon for $40,030. The original plan 

 was to provide for about 250 pupils ; but so many 

 applications have been made for admission, that 

 accommodations are preparing for 600. 



The main building of the Citadel Academy was 

 destroyed by fire on March 14, but has been re- 

 built in more modern style and is better adapted 

 to its purpose than before the fire ; 137 students 

 were in attendance during the fall term. 



The Winthrop School is still conducted in 

 Columbia. The General Assembly of 1891 passed 

 an act founding an institution for the industrial 

 training of girls, in connection with a normal 

 school, to be called the South Carolina Industrial 

 and Winthrop Normal College, to be located in 

 the town making the highest bid for grounds, 

 building, and equipment. The city of Anderson 

 offered the highest bid, $75,000 ; but before the 

 bonds were issued it was found that this proposed 

 addition to the city's debt would carry it beyond 

 the 8 per cent, limit prescribed by the constitution. 

 A decision given by the Supreme Court in a 

 friendly lawsuit brought for a test of the validity 

 of the proposed bonds, was against it, and bids 

 will be taken again. 



Claflin College, at Orangeburg, a branch of the 

 South Carolina University, receives half of the 

 Morrill fund. A large part of it has been de- 

 voted to an increase in the force of teachers and 

 the purchase of machinery and other improve- 

 ments in the equipment. It is for colored youth 

 of both sexes, and over 600 are in attendance. 



Charities. The number of patients under 

 treatment at the State lunatic asylum, Nov. 1, 

 was 764. The income of the institution from all 

 sources was $115,385.57, and the expenditures, 

 $112,371.73. The legislature passed an act to 

 regulate the admission of patients. 



Penitentiary. The number of convicts on Nov. 

 1 was 900, an increase of 107 over the number last 

 year. The total receipts during the year were 

 $75,081.41, of which $39,681.83 was for convict 

 hire and $19,326.16 from sales of cotton and other 

 farm products ; $36,350.36 represents the assets 

 in cash, bills due for convict hire, and unsold farm 

 produce. Among the disbursements were $14,- 

 372.20 for the pay rolls, $17,169.87 for subsist- 

 ence, $2.995.73 for transportation of new convicts, 

 $3,221.21 for Clemson College pay-rolls, etc., 

 and $5,000 for payment on De Saussure farm. 



Railroads. The General Assembly, at the 

 session of 1891, directed the Attorney-General to 

 investigate the complaints that the Port Royal 

 and Augusta Railroad was controlled by a foreign 

 corporation, to the detriment of the State. He 

 found that it was under the control of the Georgia 

 Central, a competing line, and that in consequence 

 it was operated as part of the Central system, 

 to the disadvantage of the section of the State 

 through which the Port Royal runs, and to the 

 detriment of Port Royal harbor. The Governor 

 therefore sent a special message to the last legis- 

 lature, recommending that the Attorney-General 

 be authorized to begin proceedings against the 

 railroad to compel it to abide by its charter. 



