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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (SOUTH CAROLINA.) 



Valuations. The total valuations for assess- 

 ment in 1902 were $195,537,0(51, of which $107,- 

 010,298 was real, $61,018,500 personal, and $27,- 

 508,203 railroad property. The total increase for 

 the year is $6,203,952. 



Education. The number of illiterates in the 

 State by the last census was 338,659. In the 

 percentage of children from ten to fourteen able 

 to read and write South Carolina stands forty- 

 ninth in the lists of States and Territories, with 

 70.44 per cent. The compulsory-education bill 

 did not pass the Legislature. The average num- 

 ber of weeks of the school term in 38 out of 40 

 counties was twenty-one for the white and 14.27 

 for the colored schools. The average value of 

 schoolhouses is $178. The average monthly sal- 

 ary of teachers is given as $25.78 for men and 

 $24.29 for women. 



In the session of 1901-'02 of South Carolina 

 College 215 students were matriculated. Of these, 

 23 pursued the classical course, 47 the literary 

 course, 33 the scientific course, 38 the normal 

 course, 34 the special course, 32 the law course, 

 10 the graduate course. The men students num- 

 bered 186; women, 29. 



The report of the Citadel Military Academy 

 shows an enrolment of 129, with 36 graduates in 

 June. The estimate for support for the year is 

 $25,000. 



The attendance at Clemson Agricultural Col- 

 lege has grown from 350 in 1896 to 530 in 1902. 

 In April 69 of the 74 members of the sophomore 

 class left the college because their petition for 

 the reinstatement of a classmate who had been 

 suspended for breaking a rule was not granted. 

 The dissatisfaction spread to other classes, and 

 the trustees, after a hearing, reinstated the sus- 

 pended student. The president then resigned, but 

 the trustees voted not to accept the resignation. 

 He did, however, retire, and the college year 

 1902-'03 began with a new administration. 



The State College for Colored Students, at 

 Orangeburg, had an enrolment of 624 students. 

 The estimated cost for the year 1902-'03 is $23,- 

 320.27, of which the income covers $18,315.15, 

 leaving only about $5,000 for the State to con- 

 tribute; $5,000 more is needed to finish and equip 

 the new building on which $5,000 has so far been 

 spent. 



In Winthrop Normal and Industrial College for 

 Girls the number of officers, teachers, and assist- 

 ants was 43, compared with 38 for the previous 

 session, and the enrolment in the college, not 

 including 90 pupils in the model school and kin- 

 dergarten, was 456, against 372 for the previous 

 year. The amount required for ordinary expenses 

 is $63.539; tuition and other fees amount to $10,- 

 974, leaving more than $52,000 to be provided 

 by the State. 



Other colleges in the State sent out graduates 

 as follow: Newberry, 11; Erskine, 11; Due West 

 Female College, 26; Furman University, 14; 

 Greenville Female College, 17. 



The State Medical College gives 7 free schol- 

 arships to young men ana women appointed by 

 the Governor, one from each congressional dis- 

 trict. 



Charities and Corrections. In 1902 506 new 

 patients were admitted to the State Insane Hos- 

 pital; the daily average was 1,134, and the whole 

 number under treatment 1,611. The institution 

 is overcrowded. 



At the State Penitentiary 183 new convicts 

 were received, 194 were discharged, 30 were par- 

 doned, 11 escaped, and 45 died. Dec. 31 there were 

 remaining 701. 



The total receipts, including balance, were $84,- 



069.21; the current expenses, $62,657.07; for per- 

 manent improvements, $4,300 was expended. The 

 balance, Dec. 31, was $17,112.14, in addition to 

 which $6,300 had been earned but not collected, 

 and $12,000 worth of farm-products were on 

 hand. 



Militia. The numerical strength of the volun- 

 teer troops, including all branches of the service, 

 rank and file, is 3,060, composed as follows : Three 

 regiments of infantry, 1 regiment of cavalry, 1 

 company of artillery, and 3 divisions of naval 

 reserves. 



The Dispensary. Of this institution the Gov- 

 ernor says: 



" For the first time since the dispensary law 

 was enacted it was not an issue in the political 

 campaign for the governorship the past year, aa 

 all the candidates for Governor were pledged to 

 its support and to the strict enforcement of the 

 law. The greatest opposition to the system of 

 State control of the sale of liquors is in the 

 larger cities. As a result, there is illicit sale of 

 liquor in these cities, and there will continue to 

 be until public sentiment in these communities 

 grows more strongly in favor of the dispensary 

 system and jurors regard more sacredly their 

 oath and convict persons who are proved guilty 

 of the violation of the law. The business the 

 past year has increased, which may be taken as 

 an evidence that the people are becoming more 

 in sympathy with the law, rather than that the 

 consumption of whisky is increasing. 



" The amount to the credit of the school fund 

 on Nov. 30, 1902, was $652,829.22, but not avail- 

 able, as it was in stock. The stock on hand Nov. 



20 was: In county dispensaries, $406,195.05; in 

 State dispensary, $324,328.12; total, $730,523.17. 

 Under the act of the last Legislature requiring 

 the directors to pay to the State Treasurer quar- 

 terly the profits to the credit of the school fund 

 three payments have been made aggregating $92,- 

 755.91. The same act requires that the profits to- 

 the credit of the school fund carried as stock 

 shall be reduced by semiannual payments to 

 $400,000 by Jan. 1, 1904. Under this requirement 

 $100,000 have been paid to the State Treasurer 

 the past year. The following figures show the 

 total net profits for the year ending Nov. 30, 

 1902, from the sale of liquor and beer: From 

 whisky to towns and counties, $382,688.36; from 

 beer to towns and counties, $60,515.40; total, 

 $443,198.76; net profit to the State, $123,699.07; 

 total net profit, $566.897.83." 



In connection with the dispensary, the State 

 has a claim against the Government for i 

 alleged to have been illegally collected. The con- 

 tention is that the Government can not tax the 

 agencies of a State government. 



Industries and Products. According to the 

 census reports of 1900, there were 155,355 farms 

 in South Carolina, averaging 90 acres. The aver- 

 age farm of the white farmer was 145.7 aciv-. 

 that of the negro farmer, 44.4 acres. There were 

 69,954 white farmers and 85,401 negro farmer-: 

 31,120 whites owned their farms, and 15,503 ne- 

 groes could show titles for theirs: 2,934 whites 

 were part-owners, and so were 3.376 negroes; 393 

 whites were owners and tenants, as also were 

 91 negroes. There were 874 white managers of 

 farms and 180 negro managers. Tlie white 

 cash tenants numbered 14.612, the negro ra~h 

 tenants 42.434; the white share tenants were 14.- 



021 in number, the negro share tenants 23. si 7. 

 Fifty-five per cent of South Carolina's farmers 

 were negroes. 



The total value of the farms was $153,591,159, 

 of which $99,805,860 represented the value of land 



