MESSAGE STATE OF GEORGIA. EXECUTIVE DEPAHTME~'l'. ATLAN"TA. Nov. 13, 1Dl5. To the Ge11eral Assembly: A resolution was adopted at the summer sess1011 appointing a special committee to visit tlw Georgia School for the Deaf, located i1t Cave Spring, Georgia, during vacation, to make a report concerning certain matters set out in that resolution. There were submitted to the joint committee appointed under this resolution eertain matters, which when investigated it was found were not within tho :;.;cope of the enquiry that had been authorized by the General Assembl.v. The Governor, therefore, under Seetion 1420 of the Code of HllO, was askeer, Hon. L. r. Brown, Hon. L. Roberts, Hon. ,T. P. KnigM and Hon. T. D. "\Valker, Sr. These gentlemen md at the scl10ol and looke into the matters submitted to them touching the management of the superintendent and a report was mar at Milledgeville, anr the Prison Commission under the construction put upon tl1e law h~r t1ie Executive Department. The Prison 0ommission, howevn, 1rns recentl>r secnred an opinion from the Attorncy-Genera] to the effef't that the words "1wnitentiary at MilledgeYille," as u,;ed in thP statute, did not include 2 the buildings on the present State Farm, and have therefore asked the Governor to insure the same. 'rhis will require an expenditure of some two thousand dollars, I am informed, and the money has not been appropriated. If you desire this insurance carried with the other insurance of the State, and agree with the Attomey-General that the law re(]Uires the Governor to insure these buildings, then I respectfully ask that you appropriate the necessary funds to continue the insurance, which is about to be cancelled; otherwise it will not be practicable for the same to be continued by this Department. Respectfully submitted, Govenwr. ( ('opy.) 0ARl,ANl1 ~J. ,TONER. J\TTORN l\Y A'I' LAW. NmvNAN, 01m1w1A. Sept. 8, 1913. To His Excelle11cy, Gocernor N. E. !Tarris, .A tlamtu, Oeorgia. DEAR GOVERNOR: The Board of ViRiton, appointed hy rou to visit the Sel1ool for tlw l)paf at Cave Spring and investigate the cliargf's against the managf'ment and tliP Nn1wrintPnde11t \\'Pslt'Y 0. Connor, visitP(1 Cmc~ 8prin; on fiept<'mhPr 1th, 1D1.i, and instrudPd me, as their chairman, to make the fo11owing report to you: "Resolved that the chairman be qnd he is hereby instrudecl to report to the Governor that the Board of Visitors appointed to investigate the School for the Deaf at Cave Spring, after investigating the same find that the affairs of the school are administered in an effieient, useful and businesslike manner, arnl that after hearing all available testimony, the Board of Visitors are of the opinion that the charges against Professor \V. 0. Connor and the institution are without foundation. "vVe have not felt ourselYes capable of distinguishing between the merits of the Labial or Lip System and the ::\Ianual System, we therefore make no revort as to this, but recommend that the Board of Trustees investigate this question and report the same to His Excellency, the Governor.'' As instructed above, I herewith transmit this re- port to yon. Yours respectfully, (Signed) .J. R. -:\foFAnLAND, 0 .l\LT./e Chairman, Board of Visitors r School for the Deaf. 4 (Copy.) Rossville, Ga., Sept. 11, 1915. To His Bxcelleucy, Orn-ernor N. E. Jlarris, Atlanta, Georgia. DEAR GOVERNOR: ~~s Chairman of the Committee appointed by your Excellenc,\' to visit the School for the Deaf, at Cave Spring, Ga., beg to report we have discharged our duties as best we could. F)ight of our committee -were present. \Ve also examined the property under House Resolution No. 52, but only charged our expenses for one committee, this saving the State some expense. Please find enclosed the report. Hoping you will soon fully recover from your hard summer's work, I remain, Your very obedient friend, (Signed) J. H. McFARLAND. 5