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490 THE TEXAS ALMANAC-1939.
construction departments. The license plant
made 3,279,500 license plates for the State
Highway Department to be delivered to the
254 county seats.
Of the 2,966 new prisoners received in 1937,
981 were convicted for burglary, 1,570 were
white, 1,363 were married. Harris was lead-
ing county of origin with 279, followed by
Dallas with 273. Of the new prisoners, 66 per
cent were first offenders and 20 per cent
were illiterate.
Fixed Assets of Prison System.
As of Dec. 31, 1937:
Total
fixed
Unit- Land. Buildings. assets.
Gen. administrative . $29,761
Huntsville prison . $22,750 $173,505 231,637
Mechanic'l Dept. ...... ...... 24,506
Construct'n Dept. ...... 3,506
Print shop ..... .......... 6,933
Shoe factory... ...... ...... 4,402
Mattress factory ...... ...... 84
License plant... 30,197
Blue Ridge farm.. 237,009 15,083 262,705
Central farm ..... 287,175 10,681 316,100
Clemens farm.... 364,230 47,497 422,392
Darrington farm.. 283,365 54,984 353,943
Eastham farm... 422,025 42,986 481,509
Goree farm....... 11,000 56,900 72,023
Harlem farm..... 344,920 127,337 483,208
Brick plant..... 8,932 20,803
Ramsey farm.... 543,900 70,265 659,893
Retrieve farm..... 261,230 100,995 378,615
State farm Indust.. 314,577 386,411
Wynne farm...... 21,736 9,822 36,638
Totals ......$2,799,341 $1,033,569 $4,205,277
Prison System-Comparative Data.
1935. 1936. 1937.
T'I cash expend...$1,485,917 $1,732,282 $2,038,554
*Av. cost per man. $238.29 $231.37 $252.39
Av. population ... 5,623 6,050 6,261
Total punishments. 80 271 239
Total escapes..... 71 72 73
New prisoners
received ..... 3,165 2,829 2,966
Cost transporting
prisoners ....... $14,291 $11,429 $13,187
Av. cost per man. $4.51 $4.04 $4.45
Prisoners recapt'd. 79 59 89
Total cost of re-
capture expense. $1,776 $1,050 $1,451
Av. cost per man. $22.49 $17.80 $16.30
Total enrolled in
school ........ 2,963 3,149 2,747
Per cent pop. en-
rolled in school. 52.7% 52.5% 45%
*Exclusive of cash expended for new buildings,
improvements, land, bonds, notes, interest paid
out, raw materials for industries.
PROHIBITION IN TEXAS.
The first general election on the matter of liquor
control was held in Texas Aug. 7, 1854, following
the passing by Legislature of a law closing all
places selling liquor in amounts of less than one
quart, except in those counties where the people
voted for licensing places. In compliance with this
law, Gov. E. M. Pease called the election and a
large number of counties voted against such license
which would have meant the closing of places
selling in uantities of less than one quart had not
the law been declared unconstitutional shortly
afterward.
There was some regulatory legislation, with re-
spect to location of places selhng liquor near
schools and churches, under the Constitution of
1869. There was placed in the Constitution of 1876
(present document) a provision for local option
elections, and the first election under this pro-
vision was held in Jasper County Dec. 18, 1876,
the county going "dry.
The first constitutional amendment for state-
wide prohibition was submitted to the people at an
election Aug. 4, 1887. and defeated by a vote of220,627 to 129,270. The next state-wide contest
was in the Democratic primary of July 25, 1908, on
the question of submission of a prohibition amend-
ment to a vote of the people and it carried by a
vote of 145,530 to 141,441, but the question was
not submitted by the following Legislature. At an
election in July, 1911, prohibition was defeated by
a vote of approximately 237,000 to 231,000.
The amendment to the State Constitution, Sec.
20, Art. 16, was submitted by the Thirty-Sixth
Legislature and adopted at an election May 24,
1919, in which the vote was 158,982 for, and 130,-
907 against the amendment. In the meantime,
however, the national prohibition amendment had
been submitted and it had been ratified by the
Texas Legislature of this state, Feb. 28, 1918.
Prohibition was. repealed by an amendment sub-
mitted by the Forty-Third Legislature (1933) and
adopted by the people at an election Aug. 26, 1933,
permitting sale of vinous and malt liquors of not
more than 3.2 per cent. This amendment of Sec.
20, Art. XVI of the Constitution was again
amended to permit sale of liquors according to
the present limitations, the subject having been
submitted by the Forty-Fourth Legislature (1935)
and adopted by the people in an election Aug. 24,
1935.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
*Texas State School for the Bllnd.-Austin;
1856; W. E. Allen, superintendent; 243 students;
value of property, $850,000.
*Texas School foi the Deaf.-Austin; 1856; T.
M. Scott, superintendent: 503 students; value of
property, $1,140,000.
State School for Deaf, Dumb and Blind for
Colored Youths.-Austin 1887; J. D. Martin
superintendent; 345 students: value of property
$850,000. ,60
State .Orphans' Home.-Corsiana; 1887; J.
Stanford Halley, superintendent; 675 children;
value of property, $1,000,000.
State Colored Orphans' Home.-Gilmer; 1929:
P. J. Rowe, superintendent; 73 children; value of
property, $85,600.
tAustin State School.-Austin; 1917; 1,303 stu-
dents; value of property, $1,347,334.
Texas Confederate Home.-Austin; 1891; E. L.
Hardin, superintendent; 41 residents; value of
property, $549,225.
Texas Confederate Woman's Home.-Austin'
1911; Mrs. Susie Peale Butler, superintendent; 86
residents; value, of property, $208,408.70.
State Tuberculosis Sanatorlum.-Sanatorium,
sixteen miles northwest of San Angelo, near North
Concho, in Tom Green County; 1911; Dr. J. B.
McKnight, superintendent; capacity, 962 patients;
value of property, $2,300,000.
tWaco State Home.-Waco; 1919: R. R. Pat-
terson, superintendent; 352 children; value of
property, $549,036.88.
State Jluvenile Training School.-Gatesville;
1888; Earl H. Nesbitt, superintendent; 1,102 boys;
value of property, $979,771.
Girls Training School. -ainesville; 1913; Mrs.
Agnes Stephens, superintendent; 266 girls; value
of property, $300,000.
Abilene State Hospital (for epileptics).-Abilene:
1901; Dr. T. B. Bass, superintendent; 1,300 pa-
tients; value of property, $1,500,000.
tAustin State Hospital.-Austin; 1857; 2,331 pa-
tients; value of property, $1,694,808.
Big Spring State Hosptal.-Big Spring; 1937;
Dr. George T: McMahan, superintendent; capacity,
400 patients; value of property, $847,000.
Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital.-Gaves-
ton; 1931; Dr. L. R. Brown, superintendent; 100
capacity; value of property, $500,000.
(Continued on next page.)
*Plaed in both educational and eleemosynary
budgets by the State Board of Control.
tLatest information available; 1939 questionnaire
not returned.
SWas formerly called the Home for Dependent
and Neglected Children.
Late in 1938 this Institution was practically
constructed but unable to receive patients until
the State Legislature made additional appropria-
tions.
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