The Times And Democrat

APPROPRIATION BILL
For the Current
Year Sent to the
Senate Friday.

The appropriation bill was given
third reading in the house Friday
and was sent to the senate. There
were no amendments on third read-
ing. The bill provides for the follow-
ing items:

Governor's Office—Salary of gover-
nor, $3,000; private secretary, $1,350;
stenographer, $500; messenger, $400;
contingent fund, $5,000; stationery
and stamps, $350; civil contingent
fund for special terms of court, $2,-
500.

Office of Secretary of State—Salary,
$1,900; chief clerk, $1,350; extra clerk
hire, $1,200; contingent fund $200;
stationery and stamps, $500; books
and blanks, $350; clerk for indexing
historical records, $900; book type-
writer, $135.

Secretary of State as Keeper of
State House and Grounds—Two
watchmen, $960; janitor, $160; engi-
neer, seven months, $75, five months,
$25,$650; firemen ($350 each), $700;
contingent fund, $200; fuel for State
house, $1,000; janitress, $120; repairs
on State house, $500; incidental re-
repairs in State house, $400; electrician,
$800.

Office of Comptroller General—Sal-
ary, $1,900; chief clerk, $1,400; book-
keeper, $1,400; auditing clerk, $1,400;
contingent fund, $300; stationery and
stamps, $500; printing $500; traveling
expenses, $1,000; stationery and
stamps insurance department, $200.

State Treasurer—Salary, $1,900:
chief clerk, $1,500; bookkeeper; $1,
350; bookkeeper loan department
$1,350; contingent fund, $350; station-
ery and stamps, $300; printing bonds
and stocks, $500.

Office of Superintendent of Educa-
tion—Salary, $1,900; clerk, $1,200;
contingent fund, $200; stationary and
stamps, $300; books and blanks for
public schools $1,000; expenses State
board of education, $300; traveling
expenses superintendent of education,
$300; stenographer $400.

Office Adjutant and Inspector Gen-
eral—Salary, $1,500; clerk, $1,200;
State armorer and help, $500; station-
ery and stamps, $150, expenses office
and collecting arms, $550; for main-
tenance militia, $8,000; rent and stor-
age of arms and equipment, $340.

Office of Attorney General—Salary,
$1,900: assistant, $1,350; contingent
fund, $150; stationery and stamps $75:
expenses litigation, $2,000, out of
which a stenographer may be em-
ployed.

Office of State Librarian—Salary,
$800; contingent fund, $200; station-
ery and stamps, $300; for purchasing
and binding books, $100.

Railroad Commissioners—Salary,
$5,700; secretary, $1,200; rent, etc.,
$1,250; printing, $250; stenographer,
$400. (This appropriation is advanced
and is to be returned by the railroads.
express and telegraph companies.)

State Geologist—Salary, $1,500;
contingent fund $1,500.

Salary of four justices, $2,850 each;
total, $11,400; salaries of eight circuit
judges, $24,000; salaries of eight cir-
cuit solicitors, $12,300; code commis-
sioner, $400; salaries of eight circuit
stenographers, $10,200; salary of State
reporter, $1,300; salary of clerk of su-
preme court, $800; salary of librarian
supreme court, $800. salary of sten-
ography supreme court, $100; salary
of messenger supreme court, 200; sal-
ary of attendant supreme court, 200;
contingent fund, $500; purchase books
supreme court library, 500.

For the tax Department—Salaries
of county auditors, $29,000; salaries
of county treasurers, $29,000; print-
ing, books, $2,500.

Expenses maintaining quarantine
station at Charleston, $1,000; salary
quarantine office, Charleston, $1,650;
salary quarantine office, Port Royal,
$700: expenses station at Port Royal,
$300; salary quarantine office St. Hele-
na, $700; expenses quarantine station
St. Helena, $150; salary quarantine
officer Georgetown, $450: expenses
quarantine station at Georgetown,
$150; salary keeper of Lazaretto $300;
salary keeper hospital buildings at
Port Royal, $175; repairs Port Royal,
$125; for the purpose of carrying out
the act establishing the State board
of health, $2,200, out of which a claim
of the State printer for $600 is to be
paid; clerk hire, State board of health.
$500; to quarantine the State against
contagious and infectious diseases,
$8,000, and the governor may borrow
$7,000 additional.

South Carolina college, $29,400; for
department of English, $1,600; for
iron safe, $200; for normal scholar-
ships $1,640; installing sewerage plant
$7,500; insurance three years, $3,000;
Winthrop college, $52,182; scholar-
ships, $5,456 assistant to president
$800, painting buildings. $3,000;
colored college at Orangeburg, $5,000;
support of beneficiary cadets at the
Citadel, $25,000; Citadel library $250:
repairs, $1,000; heating and lighting
plant, $10,000, Cedar Springs school for
deaf, dumb and blind, $24,000, and for
furnishings and repairs, $500: barn,
carriage house and laundry, $2,500.

State Hospital for the Insane—Sal-
ary of superintendent and physician,
$3,000; board of regents. per diem and
mileage, $1,200: support of, $120,000;
repairs and improvements, $15,000;
water supply, $1,500.

State Penitentiary—Salary of sup-
erintendent, $1,900; captain of the
guard, $1,200; physician, $1,050:
chaplain, $750; clerk, $1,200.

Catawba Indians—Support of, $1,-
500.

The following miscellaneous appro-
priations were passed:
Repairs on governor's mansion, $1,-
650. It is understood that this settles
for the present the agitation for a new
mansion in another part of the city.
The appropriation includes $1,000 for
a new heating plant and $250 for fuel.
To pay claims approved at this ses-
sion, $14,600.
Pensions, $200,000.
Lighting public buildings in Colum-
bia, $6,000: water for public buildings.
$2,000.
For Paying for completion of State
house, $15,000.
Public printing, $14,000 (including
what has already been paid).
Expense of phosphate board, $300.
State board of equalization, $2,000.
South Carolina room Confederate
museum, Richmond, $100.
State agricultural society, $2,500
(loan).

For committee to examine books of
State colleges, $331; committee to ex-
amine State treasurer's books $192:
committee to examine penal and char.
itable institution. $447. Per diem of
tax commission, $178; State house in-
vestigating commission, $427; commis.
sion to inquire into repairs needed on
State house, $250; committee to Gor-
don funeral, $170.
Rent, office State superintendent of
education, $270.
Salaries of supervisors of registra-
tion, $12,300.
For interest on the valid debt of the
State, $285,000; past due interest
likely to accrue, $20,000.
Equestrian statue to Gen. Hamp-
ton, $20,000.
Repairs on Chicamauga monument
$2,500.