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out our borders ; the laws are impartially en- 

 forced and fully respected ; good-will between 

 all classes is rapidly obliterating the animos- 

 ities of the past ; health blesses our people ; 

 and the labors of the husbandmen have been 

 crowned with abundant harvests." 



The receipts of the Treasury up to Novem- 

 ber 26, 1877, amounted to $755,885.96 ; the 

 expenditures, under the present administra- 

 tion, to $232,829, made up by the following 

 items : Salaries, $83,715 ; Legislature, $89,466 ; 

 contingent funds, $18,845 ; lunatic asylum, 

 $32,521 ; public printing, $8,792. 



The cash balance in the Treasury, on Novem- 

 ber 26, 1877, was $340,185.92. 



The gross amount of all the taxable property 

 in the State, including by estimate the property 

 located in several counties which failed to re- 

 port, is set down at $135,735,863, classified as 

 follows : Eeal property, $86,896,002 ; personal 

 property, $42,162,311 ; railroad property, $6,- 

 677,550. 



The aggregate amount of interest accrued on 

 the consolidation bonds and stocks, up to July 

 1, 1877, was $343,236. 



The amount which represents the principal 

 of the State debt, and the interest accrued on 

 it to the present time, will appear from the re- 

 port of the Special Joint Committee appointed 

 by the Legislature at the last session to inves- 

 tigate it. 



The school statistics, for the year 1877, are 

 summarily as follows : 



The total available free-school fund for the year 

 was $189,352.80, of which $100,000 was the State ap- 

 propriation, $53,965 the receipts from the local tax 

 in Charleston City, and $35,387.80 from the Peabody 

 fund and other sources. The receipts from the poll 

 tax were applied, as required by law, to the payment 

 of old indebtedness. The total scholastic population 

 that is, the number of children entitled to the 

 benefits of the free schools was 228,128, of whom 

 74.117 are colored males, 70,198 colored females, 43,- 

 397 white males, and 40,416 white females. The 

 total number of children attending school was 102,- 

 396, or less than one-half of those who were entitled 

 to attend. Of these, 24,878 were white males, 21,- 

 566 white females, 29 ; 230 colored males, and 26,722 

 colored females. This shows that more than one- 

 halt' the whites, both male and female, attend tho 

 schools ; and considerably less than one-half tho 

 blacks, male and female, attend. 



The total number of teachers employed was 2,674, 

 of whom 943 were Southern white male teachers, 

 740 Southern white female teachers, 678 Southern 

 colored male teachers, 260 Southern colored fomnle 

 teachers, 27 Northern white female teachers, 15 

 Northern white male teachers, 8 Northern colored 

 female teachers, and 8 Northern colored male teach- 

 ers. The schools are kept open, on the average, 

 throe months out of the year. The total amount 

 paid the teachers was $212,581.64. The average 

 monthly pay of male teachers was $28.82, and of fe- 

 male teachers $26.87. 



The number of school-houses erected during the 

 year 1877 was 25, at a total cost of $2,755.29, being 

 an average cost of a little over $100 each. The num- 

 ber of school-houses rented during the year was 79. 

 The number of school-houses erected previously is 

 2,059, at a total cost of $292,131.88, being an average 

 of a little less than $150. 



The proposed amendment to the State Con- 



stitution, levying a tax of at least two mills on 

 the dollar on all taxable property, to support 

 the free schools in the State, was adopted at 

 the election of November 6, 1877, by an almost 

 unanimous vote of the people. The whole 

 number of votes cast on it was 175,549, of 

 which 168,683 were for, and 6,856 againtt. 

 The sum collected from this tax, together with 

 that of the poll tax, devoted also to educational 

 purposes, will yield a yearly amount of about 

 $350,000, which is considered sufficient to put 

 the free schools of the State on a footing of 

 general usefulness. In order to become part 

 of the Constitution, and go into practical OJH.T- 

 ation, tho said amendment was to !> ratified 

 by a two-thirds vote of each House of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly. This has now been done. 



The Legislature had in contemplation the es- 

 tablishment of a university or college for the 

 instruction of the blacks, equal to the existing 

 one for the whites. To this end, a joint com- 

 mittee on the State University was instructed 

 to consider the subject, and report to the next 

 General Assembly. This committee submitted 

 their report on December 10, 1877, recom- 

 mending the establishment of separate insti- 

 tutions for whites and blacks, having equal ad- 

 vantages of instruction. 



The charitable institutions in the State are 

 under praiseworthy management, and the 

 amount paid out of the public Treasury for 

 their expenses in 1877 has been much less than 

 in former years. 



The penitentiary also is well managed ; ex- 

 cept that the convicts earn nothing, but are 

 wholly at the charge of the State. 



The judicial proceedings in the following 

 criminal cases during the year 1877, instituted 

 in behalf of the State, and terminated in the 

 conviction of the accused, and the sentence* 

 passed on them, seem to be worthy mention : 

 F. L. Cardozo, the mulatto State Treasurer of 

 South Carolina for several years, and forming 

 part of Governor Chamberlain's administra- 

 tion till his leaving the State House on April 

 11, 1877, was arrested on the 21st of July 

 for fraud upon tho State Government, and 

 bailed in the sum of $20,000, awaiting trial ; 

 L. Cuss Carpenter, formerly editor of a Repub- 

 lican newspaper in South Carolina, ex-Con- 

 gressman and ex-Revenue-Collector, was ar- 

 rested on the 28th of June, charged with 

 forgery, and held on bail to await ha trial ; 

 and Robert Smalls, a colored man, previously 

 a member of the State Legislature, then elected 

 Congressman on November 7, 1876, from tho 

 fifth district of Sooth Carolina, was also ar- 

 rested upon the charge of having, in Decem- 

 ber, 1872, " received a bribe in hi* official 

 capacity, to influence his acts in tho offic* of 

 State Senator of South Carolina," and held on 

 bail to answer to the indictment. Th*e three 

 were tried together before tho Conrt of Gen- 

 eral Sessions at Colombia, and convicted by * 

 jury composed of whites and black*. Where- 

 upon Judge Townsend, it the sitting of titt 



