SC Archives Summary Guide

South Carolina Archives Series Description

Employee and Guard Payrolls, 1866-1894  

 


CALL NUMBER:        S 132035


 

CREATOR:  Central Correctional Institution (S.C.)

 

TITLE:  Employee and guard payrolls

 

DATE:  1866-1894

 

VOLUME:  3.30 cubic ft.

 

ARRANGEMENT:  Series unarranged.

 

SUMMARY SCOPE NOTE:  This series consists of monthly pay lists for state penitentiary employees.  The pay lists for 1868-1870 contain only the date, name of payee, and amount of pay.  Information on pay lists after 1870 includes date, name of payee, occupation of payee, rate of pay, total pay, payee's signature, and remarks (typically notations of an employee's discharge).

    Also included are pay vouchers submitted by the architect and engineer for payment of employees working on the construction of the state penitentiary in 1867-1868.  Information includes date, name of payee, occupation of payee, rate of pay, total pay, and signature of employee.

 

LINKING NOTE:  A separate record, entitled Agency history record, has been written for the Dept. of Corrections describing the functions and history of the agency.

 

HIERARCHICAL NOTE:  Forms part of the records of the Central Correctional Institution of the Dept. of Corrections.