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banks, under the acts of Feb. 25, 1896, and Feb. 25, 

 1897, $28.484.22. This leaves a balance, $127.322.51, 

 which has been deposited in banks, and which draws 

 4 per cent., payable monthly. The State received 

 this year from the phosphate royalty $23,522.64. 



Education. The total enrollment in the public 

 schools was 275.889, of whom the majority, 150,787, 

 were colored ; it is an increase of 17,706 over that 

 of the year preceding. The estimate of the number 

 of children of school age in the State is 200,000 

 white and 350,000 colored. 



During the past eight years 1.148 schoolhouses 

 have been built at a cost of $234,743.58 ; but every 

 year there is necessity for using private houses for 

 the overflow. 



The cost of the schools was $731.241.50, of which 

 $526,858.20 was for the schools for whites and 

 $204,383.30 for those for colored. The schools for 

 whites were run an average of 4.82 months, and 

 those for blacks 4.20 months. The expenditures of 

 the whites exceed those for the blacks as follows : 

 Salaries, $275,128.47; rent, $1,001.61; repairs, 

 $5,565.26 ; furniture, $4,087.33 ; fuel and inciden- 

 tals, $4,125.58 ; maps, globes, and charts, $14,470.83 , 

 library, $634.83; sites, $867.31; building, $14,096.- 

 38 ; other purposes, $2,747.44 ; aggregating a total 

 of $322,474.90. It will be seen that there was a 

 little more than 2-J times as much spent on the white 

 than on the black schools. 



To the $731,241.50 must be added some $20,000 

 for the salaries of county superintendents and ex- 

 penses of county boards of education, paid from the 

 ordinary county funds, and also $3,500 for this de- 

 partment, paid from the State treasury, the whole 

 aggregating $754,741.50, which is the total cost for 

 the public schools for the year. 



For the schools for whites there were 3,076 teach- 

 ers, of whom 1,915 were women ; and for the colored, 

 2,166, of whom 1,045 were women. 



The trustees of the Peabody educational fund 

 continue to allow the State 12 scholarships in the 

 Nashville Peabody Normal College, each worth $100, 

 and traveling exp'enses for the recipients. For the 

 first scholastic year they allow Winthrop Normal 

 and Industrial College $2,900, Claflin University 

 $700, and for teachers' institutes $1,500 ; and $850 

 has been given from the fund to the colored schools 

 of Charleston. 



In the past session 180 students were enrolled at 

 the South Carolina College, of whom 92 were new 

 students, 4 were graduates, 68 were in literary and 

 classical courses, 27 in scientific courses, and 23 

 were studying law. At the June commencement 

 26 received diplomas. 



The estimated expenses for the coming year were 

 $32,035, of which $4,500 will be paid by the fees. 



The preparatory department has been abandoned, 

 and a plan made for admitting students on certifi- 

 cate from schools, conforming to certain regulations. 

 Forty of the leading schools of the State have ac- 

 cepted the conditions, and are accredited schools of 

 the college. 



There was a disturbance in the Military Academy 

 at the Citadel in April, which resulted in the dis- 

 missal of 64 cadets. 



Winthrop Normal and Industrial School, at Rock 

 Hill, admitted 463 girls at the last session, 344 in 

 the college classes and 119 in the practice school. 

 All the counties of the State are represented, and 4 

 other States have 8 in the college classes. It is 

 found that 60 per cent, could not have attended 

 college if Winthrop had not brought the opportu- 

 nity within their reach. The number in the normal 

 department is 177. The cost of maintenance is 

 made smaller than it would otherwise be by the 

 supplies from the farm of 144 acres attached to the 

 college. The appropriation asked for is $31,148.48. 



The Institution for the Deaf and Blind is report- 

 ed as in good condition. 



Clemson College receives from the Hatch and 

 Morrill funds, and other sources besides State appro- 

 priation, $34,760. During the year the trustees set 

 aside $12,000 to build a textile training school. It 

 is designed like a small cotton factory, and is to be 

 equipped with specimen machinery for the work of 

 all departments of such a factory, and students will 

 be required to learn the use and construction of the 

 machinery. It is intended to provide special in- 

 struction for those already working in mills at such 

 times as will be convenient for them. Manufactur- 

 ers have presented samples of the latest models of 

 cotton machinery to the department to such an 

 amount as to make the value of the property be- 

 longing to the Textile School almost double the 

 amount that the State has expended on it. A class 

 of 26 was graduated in February ; more than 400 

 students were registered during the fall term. 



There are in the State 61 high schools and acade- 

 mies for white students, and 7 for colored ; and 24 

 colleges and universities for white students, and 4 

 for colored. 



Charities and Corrections. The State Hospi- 

 tal for the Insane had 933 inmates at the beginning 

 of the year, and received 424. The daily average 

 was 975. The number remaining at the close wsis 

 966. The total number under treatment was 126 

 greater than in 1897. The recoveries were 97, and 

 the cases much improved 53. The last Legislature 

 appropriated $13,500 for the completion of the 

 Parker Building, which was ready for occupancy 

 in August ; including the cost of the brick, which 

 has been made by convict labor, it has cost about 

 $30,000; it will accommodate 400 patients. The 

 total cost of maintenance was $99,958. About 96 

 per cent, of the patients are maintained at the ex- 

 pense of the State. 



There were 728 convicts in the Penitentiary Jan. 

 1 ; 280 were received and 14 who had escaped were 

 recaptured. The sentences of 165 expired, 12 were 

 pardoned, 31 died, 20 escaped, 3 were killed while 

 trying to escape. There were 784 at the close of 

 the year. The receipts for the year were $70,009.- 

 91; the disbursements, $65,205.47; the amounts 

 collected Jan. 1, 1899, $9,328.95. The balance on 

 hand and to be collected was $15,633.39, of which 

 $10,000 was ordered paid into the State treasury. 

 The rains during the year cut down the cotton 

 crop and affected the quality unfavorably, so that 

 it is proposed to cut down the cotton acreage this 

 year about one half. 



The Governor was authorized to appoint a com- 

 mission of 5 to investigate the workings of juvenile 

 reformatories, and report on the advisability of 

 establishing one in the State. Their conclusion 

 was that such an institution should be established, 

 but that for the present only negro youth should be 

 committed, since there were but few white youthful 

 criminals, and they could be sent at the cost of the 

 State to reformatories in other States. 



Military. The State furnished about 2,500 men 

 for the Spanish war. So many of these men were 

 in the National Guard that the militia needs to be ' 

 thoroughly reorganized. 



The State pays annually $100,000 in Confederate 

 pensions. 



Bills for furnishings for the volunteer troops 

 were sent to Washington; but the Comptroller 

 refused to pay them, on the ground that the State 

 owes the Government about $122,000 on some claims 

 incident to the landscript legislation. 



The Board of Health. The Legislature appro- 

 priated $1,500 for the use of the Board of Health, 

 of which $523 was paid for printing its report,. 

 There was an epidemic of smallpox this year, ani 



