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GRAND JURY GENERAL
PRESENTMENTS
GEORGIA—Dooly County.
To the Hon. D. A. R. Crum, Judge of
Superior Court, Cordele Circuit,
Greetings:
We ns Grand Jurors, serving for
the August, nineteen hundred eight
een term of Superior Court, make the
following report after thorough in-
vestjgation and submit this as our
pr^entments.
A committee from our body made
an examination of the Unadilla Con
vict camp located near Snow, Ga—
and found twelve mules in first class
condition, six hogs in good l order,
tools camp and machinery in good
shape s also a committee from our
body examined camp at Drayton, Ga.,
and report what mules they cduld find
were in splendid shape, the convicts
well cared for and camp in first class
condition, and we wish to congratu
late our warden for the way he is
looking after our convict camps.
jlur committee making examination
of our courthouse and jail report that
they found some minor needed re
pairs but under the present war time
conditions we do not recommend these
repairs being made only as our com
missioners see fit to make them, we
only recommend that a lock be put on
the Grand Jury room door leading to
the main court room.
A committee from our body exam
ining the pqor farm made the report
that they found thcf arm well looked
after, all the houses in good repair,
sixteen hogs in good shape and being
raised at practically no expense
county, and all inmates well cared for,
we found other things of value and
interest there as will be found in the
comfnissioners’ report, and we wish
to again congratulate our warden.
Hr. Slade, for his full discharge of
duty.
We recommend that Eph Clark be
paid $5 per month instead of $3; we
also recommend that Mrs. Sara Jane
Holton, care S. B. Bush, be added to
pauper’s list and be paid $5 per
month, we also recommend that Rob
ert Williams’ name be stricken from
pauper’s list.
We recommend that J. R. C. Lane
be reappointed N. P. 1012 G. M. Dis
trict.
We recommend that all trustees of
local school districts turn over their
,feooks to the county tax collector not
later than Sept. 1st of each year.
We recommend that our commis
sioners build a house at the poor farm
in order to properly care for the
county’s tools.
Wife recommend tax levy for 1918.
1. Legal indebtedness of coun
ty due or to become due _... 1-4
2. To build or repair bridges,
jails and court houses, ferries,
and other improvements 2
3. To pay sheriffs; jailors and
other fees that are legal 1
•4. To pay expenses of bailiff
of court, witness and other legal
expenses 1
S. Juries 1-4
6 Support of poor and main
tenance of poor form .1
7. Legal salaries of offlcors....l 1-2
8. Public Roads 4
9. Other legal charges 1
the time road taxes become due.
Respectfully, submitteed,
' J. B. WALTON, Chnm.
W. E. FORD,
J. D. LESTER.
Vienna, Ga., Aug. Stb, 1918.
To’the Honorable Commissioners, •
Dooly County,
Gentlemen: -
We haVe at present 29 convicts,
onew hite and twenty-eight negroes.
Two of them at Poor Farm, one at
the Court House, eight on river bridge
and only eighteen on road which are
divided into two camps.
We had planted on county farm
this year 35 acres in oats that made
a good yield, 6 acres in garden, 12
in corn, we have now planted our
oat land corn and peas that look very
promising. We also have 5 acres in
potatoes. Since our November 1917
report, we have killed 956 pounds of
meat on the farm.
I beg to submit below inventories
of tools, machinery, ebdding, sup
plies, etc., on farm also that is being
used on ther oads.
Farm Inventory
1 Ford Car $ 350.00
1 Motor Truck 3100.00
2 Wagons „ 150.00
1 Concrete Core 260.00
2 Small Road Machines 200.00
1 Mower and Rake — 50.00
4 two-horse Turners 40.00
4 Single Plow Stocks 5.00
1 Set Blacksmith’s Tools 50.00
I lot of Plows 3.00
4 3ets Wagon Gears 26.00
1 Gas Engine 40.00
1 100-Gallon Kettle 20.00
1 lot shovels, hoes, forks .... 6.00
6 Cows - 300.00
34 Hogs 1000.00
1 Lot Pauper Bedding ■-.... 100.00
1 Writing Desk — 10.00
3 Mules 700.00
1 Cook Stove 36.00
on this fund since last
report 22,186.47
Apr. 30. Warrants redeem-
....$46,421.17
Credit
1917
Nov. 16. Road Tax ‘ 68.60
Sale of Engine 250.00
ed — 23,378.38
Jun. 4. Warrants redeem
ed 4,265.76
Jul. 2. Warrants outstand
ing 10,420.93
49.50
Nov. 27. Road Tax
1918
Feb. 4. By J. D. Hargrove
Road Tax
Feb. 4. By J. D. Hargrove
Apr. 29. By J. D. Hargrove
Apr.17. Proportion of the
1917 taxes 20,893.52
Jul. 2. Present Overdraft 25,236.46
10.00
74.44
47.75
$46,421.17
This fund shows deficit of $25,235.46
Bridge Fund
Debit
1918
Jul. 2. Warrants issued
on. this fund since last
report, No. 12, 1917 $16,615.58
Credit
1917 i' -
Nov. 12. Balance to cred
it this fund $ 4,894.64
1918
Feb. 5. Freight refund.... 711.87
Apr. 17. Proportion of
1917 taxes 10,446.75
Jul. 2. Present Overdraft 462.42
$69,192.22
Credit
1917
Nov. 12. Warrants out
standing $15,152.92
Dec. 4. Warrants Issued.... 13,430.27
1918
Jan. 1. Warrants Issued....
Feb. 1. Warrants Issued....
Har. 5. Warrants Issued....
Apr. 2. Warrants Issued....
May 6. Warrants Issued....
Jun. 4. Warrants Issued. ..
Jul. 2. Warrants Issued....
3,964.76
6.935.69
7,710.10
8,762.38
4.040.69
5,820.40
3,371.61
3.00
7.00
4.00
4.00
3.50
$16,615.58
This fund shows deficit of....$462.42
$69,191.22
Tex Collector's Account
Debit
1918
Apr. 17. Tax on digest
$4,657,469, rate .011 $50,132.05
Tax not on Digest
$230,985, rate .011.... 2,540.83
Railroad Tax. 6,446.80
Interest Collected 71.79
To the Honorable Grand Jury, August
Term, Dooly County Superior Court
I submit the following as my report
of the operation of the schools of
Dooly County, beginning at the last
report, May 15, 1917, and running to
August 7,1918.
Number of Schools Operated
White 27
Colored* 35
Total ^62
Number of Teachers Employed
White 65
Colored 46
Total .....110
FINANCES
Receipts
From State $ 26,728.75
Borrowed 4,500.00
1 Safe —
2 Wash Pots
8 Tubs
3 Lamps
Water Buckets and Dippers..
1 Lot New Harness 160.00
1 lot new clothing (convict).. 50.00
1 lot new blankets (convict) 60.00
12 Syrup Barrels 12.00
4 Oil Drums 12.00
17 Coffins 119-00
1 lot axes, garden tools 6.00
Total $59,190.47
Less
Commissions $988.06
Insolvent Taxes.... 296.13
Defaulters 449.11
Total Deductions 1,733.30
Total Form Inventory .-...$6,870.50
Road Inventory
lot bedding for guards $ 50.00
Steel Ca^es 1800.00
11 Camp Cars 600.00
Tents .'. 50.00
Mule Flys- 100.00
lot bedding for convicts .... 460.00
lot clothing for convicts .... 300.00
Cook Stoves 105.00
16 Heateps 76.00 ;
4 Wash Pots .’. .' 20.00 Debit
25 Wash Tubs 26.00 1917
18 Water Buckets ”1". 10.00 Nov. 12. Balance on hand$ 7,386.47
..12
Total
We recommend that bailiffs or rid
ing duty for Grand Jury bo paid ex
tra for gasoline and oil while on duty.
A committee from our body mak
ing examination of N. P. and J. P.
boks report entries properly made
and books well kept.
We appoint C. S. Gurr, J. H. Porter,
J. O. McGough and J. Q. Adams to
examine the county’s books and re
port to next grand jury.
We recommend that our clerk be
aid $1 extra per day for his service.
We recommend that these present-
nents be published in the Vienna
lews at the legal rate of cost.
The county officials’ reports are to
embody and form a part of our pre
sentments. •
We wish to thank our Judge, Hon,
D. A. R. Crum, for his able charge,
also thank our solicitor, Hon. J. B.
Wall, for his assistance and courtc-
Dippers, pans, dinner buckets 25.00
18 Lanterns 12.00
Beds and bedding for guards 350.00
28 Mules 8400.00
3 Road Machines 800.00
14 Wagons 840.00
48 Sets Grade Harness 480.00
4 Steel Drags 110.00
7 Road Plows 210.00
9 Wheel Scrapes 450.00
Small Tools 260.00
3 Cross-Cut Saws 9.00
Axes, etc 15.00
Stretchers, pull chains, etc.... 150.00
2 Rifles f. .... ..
paid !
J. W. LYTLE, Foreman,
O. W. HORNE, Clerk.
Vienna, Ga., Aug. 6th, 1918.
o the Honorable Grand Jury, Dooly
County, August Term, 1918.
We beg to submit herewith a gen
ral statement of what has been done
the finances of the county since
last report (November, 1917.)
attach last report from the
ounty Warden with an inventory of
-ols, supplies and machinery, etc.
We have no lengthy statement to
S but a careful perusal of the fi-
i sheets will show that we have
hand approximately $1,000
■ is added the automobile tax for
I wich is not shown on this report
'e have not borrowed any money
is year and our overdraft will not
£ount to over $7,000 of $8,000 by
hich i
9181
Disbursements
Supt’s Salary $ 1,685.00
Board Members 116.00
White ,-Teachers 5,107.00
Colored Teachers 2,419.50
Local Systems 11,603.00
Incidentals and other ex
penses
Discount on Governor’s
warrants
Interest on Borrowed Mon-
Net $67,467.17
Credit e
1917
Oct. 9. Paid Treasurer ..$ 1,363.00
Nov. 12. Paid Treasurer .. 6,071.00
1918 .
Feb. 6. Paid Treasurer .. 8,266.00
Feb. 6. Paid Treasurer .. 26,000.00
Feb. 6. Paid Treasurer .. 11,629.00
Feb. 7. Paid Treasurer .. 1,978.63
Mar. 9. Paid Treasurer .. 2,761.00
Apr. 8. Paid Treasurer .. 600.00
Apr. 29. Paid Treasurer .. 888.64
Paid Note at the Bank of
Vienna 3,500.00
For Taking School Census 473.24
Paid Balance Due All Ac
counts at last report .... 3,337.7,5
$57,457.17
Treasurer’s Account
30.00
2 Shot Guns 50.00
3.00
6 Chairs ,—
3 Dos. New Night Shirts 36.00
1 Stump Puller and Cable .... 100.00
I Dray for Moving Car 75.00
Total Road Inventory $15,985.50
Wo have worked since last report
November, 1917, 225 miles of road.
Respectfully submitted,
J. C. SLADF, Warden.
General Fund
Debit
1918
July 2. Warrants issued
on this account since last
report (Nov. 12, 1917)..$16,087.06
July 2. Balance to credit -
this fund 26,800.49
Nov. 12. Received from
C. R. Morgan 6,071.00
Nov. 16. Received- from
J. D. Hargrove 63.60
Nov. 16. Received from
J. D. Hargrove /.— 260.00
Nov! 27. Received from
J. D. Hargrove 49.50
Nov. 27. Received from
J. D. Hargrove 2,617.10
1918
Fob. 6. Received from
C. R. Morgan 8,266.00
Feb. 5. Received from
C. R. Morgan 26,000.00
Feb 5. Received from
C. R. Morgan '11,629.00
Feb. 5. Received from
J. D. Hargrove
Feb. 5. Received from
J. D. Hargrove
Feb. 7. Received fnm
C. R. Morgan 1,978.63
Mar. 8. Received from
J. D. Hargrove 2,971.7>3
Mar. 8.. Received from
J. D. Hargrove
Mar. 9.. Received from
C. R. Morgan 2,761.00
Apr. 8. Received from
C. R. Morgan
Apr. 29. Received from
C. R. Morgan 888.54
Apr. 29. Received from
J. D. .Hargrove
$42,888.25
Credit
1917
Nov. 12. Balance to cred
it this fund $11,282.72
Nov; 29. Fines and for
feitures .....: .1 2,517.10
1918
Mar. 8. Fines and forfeit
ures 2,971.53
Apr. 17. Proportion of
1917 taxes 26,1116.90
$42,888.25
July 2. Balance to cred
it of this fund $26,800.49
10.00
711.87
74.44
500.00
44.76
upon to pay taxes; where his road
would be a path through the wilder
ness, zigzagged’by zome denizen na
tive to the wild; where the protection
of his person and his rights would be
entrusted to the clearness of his eye
sight and the strength of his arm, by
day and by night; where the peace
ful employment of his vine and palm
tree would be measured by the friend
ships that he might establish among
the thick lipped savages who would
snuff out his life at theslightest sup
posed wrong, where his children could
learn the tricks of the baby monkies,
and the call of the wild beast in the
absence of schools.
Taxation is the price of civiliza
tion, we must-face the issue." inhere
is no way to dodge it. The man who
says his property ought not to be tax
ed to educate the other man’s child,
should have not right to go into court
and have that other man or his son
summoned to sit for days upon
jury to try out the merits of some
case involving this property. “No
man liveth to himself and no man
dieth to himself.”
So long as we choose to live among
civilized people, we must pay the price
of maintaining that civilization jby
furnishing adequate school
ties.
There are some good citizens who
favor Local Taxation for better
school facilities.
There are some good citizens who
favor Local Taxation for better
schools for the children, but who for
some various reasons of expediency,
favor postponing it unH some more
j favorable future time. This, in its
practical effect, is equivalent to fav-
Total : $30,228.75 oring it for the next generation of
676.73
851.37
ey .
123.09
children, but opposing it for those of
the present.
Whatever is done for the present
generation of our children must be
done now.- Tomorrow they will be
out of reach of your help.
I have no hesitancy in stating that
no county can build a good school
system until it first adopts county
wide Local Tax. It might as well at
tempt to build a good system of roads'
through the county without a county
tax for the purpose as to hope to build
up its schools without the county tax
with which to do it. The State appro
priation can never be much greater
per capita, so long as the State tax
rate is limited under the constitution
to five mills.
The present state appropriation
seems large but when it Is divided out
among all thee hildren of the state,
it gives to each child but $3.99, which
is not enough to employ a good teach
er for six months in the year to say
nothing of building and equipment
so necessary to good teaching. -
The County Commissioners can
levy a tax for almost any purpose un
der the sun except for education. Are
there better reasons for levying a
tax to build courthouses and jails,
good roads and bridges, pest houses
and dipping vats, than for building -
and equipping schools?
Fifty-five counties in Georgia
have adopted the county-wide Local
Tqx. Not one of them has ever be
come dissatisfied with the plan, It is
only a matter of a few years when
every county in the state will adopt
the Local Tax system. Why should
Dooly county delay in adopting a plan
which has already proven so satisfac
tory in over one-third of the coun
ties?
An expression from the Grand Jury
in favor of county-wide Local Tax
might go a* long way in helping to
crystalize a sentiment in fayor of it.
Respectfully submitted,
J. M. ROYAL, C. S. S.
The within and foregoing general
presentments having been read in op
en court;
’ It is ordered by thee ourt that the
same be and they arc hereby approv
ed.
Let the same bep ublishd as recom
mended and the correct authorities
of said County are hereby ordered to
issue voucher to cover expense of
publishing.
In open court, this 14th day of
Aqgust, 1918.
D. A. R. CRUM, J. S. C., C. C.
J. B. WALL, Sol-Gen.
$70,173.35
Credit
1917
Dec. 4. Warrants redeem
ed $6,671.44
1918
Feb. 5 .Warrants redeem
ed 24,456.72
Apr. 30. Warrants redeem
ed 1 23,378.38
Jun. 4. Warrants redeem
ed 4,265.75
Jul. Bal. |n Treasury .... 11,402.04
Road Fuad
Debit
1917
Nov. 12. Overdraft
fund ....
1918
Jul. 2. Warrants I
this
$24^284.70
$70,173.35
Warrant Account
Debit
1917
Dec. 8. Warrants redeem
ed i $ 5,871.44
1918
Feb. 6. Warrants redeem
ed 24,455.72
Total $29,892.68
Balance on Hand $ 336.07
Since my last report to you I have
tried to serve as best I- could the
schools and educational interests of
this county.
Realizing the all importance of hav
ing tbeucery best talent to train our.
boys and girls I have made special
effort to get good teachers in the
schools of this county. The serious
problem of filling vacancies created
by war conditions has been keenly
felt in both the towns and rural
schools of tliec ounty. While the
draft has taken many of our best men
out of the profession and we would
naturally expect their places to be
filled by women, it so happens that
the school marms are also leaving the
profession to accept positions which
pay better salaries and furnish em
ployment for twelve months in the
year instead of six to nine.
Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States
Commissioner of Education, predicts
that this shortage will grow at a rap
id rate and suggests that wherever
possible the salaries of teachers j
should ho raised.
"The cost of living has increased
60 per cent,” says Dr. Claxton. “Food
has increased 36-per cent in price,
clothing 106 per cent, fuel 53 per
cent, drugs 103 per cent, and home
furnishing goods 76 per cent. Dur
ing this period thew ages of labor,
both skilled and -unskilled, have ad
vanced. The salaries of commercial
employees aro higher than they have
ever been before—but in very few
instances have the salaries of lench-
ers been increased. As a result,
standards of efficiency in the schools
are being lowered at a time when it is
more important than ever before that
they should not be lowered but should
on the contrary, be raised as rapidly
ns possible. Conditions which will
follow the war will demand a higher
standard of general intelligence, in
dustrial efficiency and civic know
ledge and virtue than we have yet at
tained and this can be had only
through better education.”
The man who opposes Local Tax for
schools usually does not understand
what it means. He fails to look upon
education as a function of State and
County government, but considers'it
the business of each parent to bear
the burden of educating his own child.
If he can be made to see that tax
ation for schools is just as much _
part of the American scheme of gov
ernment, just as much in accord with
democratic principles, as taxation for
courts, for police protection, for
roads, or for any other public func
tion and be Still opposea it then he
is simply opposed $o all taxes and
ought to move. Into the jungles of Af
rica where he would not be called
YOUR1918COTTON
The 1918 cotton season is at hand
and I hope you will see fit to let me
handle' a' good 'part of this year’s
crop. I will do my best to satisfy
you. Thanking you for past busi
ness, I am yours to serve.
B. D. BRYAN, Jr.
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