Travel report fiscal year 2007-2008

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Travel report fiscal year 2008-2009

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Travel report fiscal year 2009-2010

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Travel report fiscal year 2010-2011

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Travel report fiscal year 2011-2012

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Travel report fiscal year 2012-2013

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Travel report fiscal year 2014-2015

The South Carolina Office of the Comptroller General publishes an annual travel report with provides information on state travel expenditures by all agencies during the fiscal year. The reports also contain a summary of total travel expenditures by agency and a breakdown of the top travelers in each agency.

Executive order no. 2016-19

This executive order by Governor Nikki Haley grants leave with pay to state employees in certain counties absent from work due to the hazardous weather on September 2, 2016.

Executive order no. 2016-40

This executive order by Governor Nikki R. Haley grants leave with pay to state employees abser.t from work as directed on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, Thursday, October 6, 2016, and Friday, October 7, 2016 as a result of the State of Emergency.

Executive order no. 2016-41

This executive order by Governor Nikki R. Haley grants leave with pay to state employees absent from work as directed from Saturday, October 8, 2016 through Wednesday, October 12, 2016 as a result of the hazardous weather conditions.

Spatial and temporal analysis of bottlenose dolphin strandings in South Carolina, 1992-2005

This CD contains summary data of bottlenose dolphins stranded in South Carolina using a Geographical Information System (GIS) and contains two published manuscripts in .pdf files. The intent of this CD is to provide data on bottlenose dolphin strandings in South Carolina to marine mammal researchers and managers. This CD is an accumulation of 14 years of stranding data collected through the collaborations of the National Ocean Service, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research (CCEHBR), the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, and numerous volunteers and veterinarians that comprised the South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network. Spatial and temporal information can be visually represented on maps using GIS. For this CD, maps were created to show relationships of stranding densities with land use, human population density, human interaction with dolphins, high geographical regions of live strandings, and seasonal changes. Point maps were also created to show individual strandings within South Carolina. In summary, spatial analysis revealed higher densities of bottlenose dolphin strandings in Charleston and Beaufort Counties, which consist of urban land with agricultural input. This trend was positively correlated with higher human population levels in these coastal counties as compared with other coastal counties. However, spatial analysis revealed that certain areas within a county may have low human population levels but high stranding density, suggesting that the level of effort to respond to strandings is not necessarily positively correlated with the density of strandings in South Carolina. Temporal analysis revealed a significantly higher density of bottlenose dolphin strandings in the northern portion of the State in the fall, mostly due to an increase of neonate strandings. On a finer geographic scale, seasonal stranding densities may fluctuate depending on the region of interest. Charleston Harbor had the highest density of live bottlenose dolphin strandings compared to the rest of the State. This was due in large part to the number of live dolphin entanglements in the crab pot fishery, the largest source of fishery-related mortality for bottlenose dolphins in South Carolina (Burdett and McFee 2004). Spatial density calculations also revealed that Charleston and Beaufort accounted for the majority of dolphins that were involved with human activities. 1

Tag-reporting levels for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) caught by anglers in South Carolina and Georgia estuaries

A total of 1784 legal-size (≥356 mm TL) hatchery-produced red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) were tagged and released to estimate tag-reporting levels of recreational anglers in South Carolina (SC) and Georgia (GA). Twelve groups of legal-size fish (~150 fish/group) were released. Half of the fish of each group were tagged with an external tag with the message “reward” and the other half of the fish were implanted with tags with the message “$100 reward.” These fish were released into two estuaries in each state (n=4); three replicate groups were released at different sites within each estuary (n=12). From results obtained in previous tag return experiments conducted by wildlife and fisheries biologists, it was hypothesized that reporting would be maximized at a reward level of $100/tag. Reporting level for the “reward” tags was estimated by dividing the number of “reward” tags returned by the number of “$100 reward” tags returned. The cumulative return level for both tag messages was 22.7 (±1.9)% in SC and 25.8 (±4.1)% in GA. These return levels were typical of those recorded by other red drum tagging programs in the region. Return data were partitioned according to verbal survey information obtained from anglers who reported tagged fish. Based on this partitioned data set, 14.3 (±2.1)% of “reward” tags were returned in SC, and 25.5 (±2.3)% of “$100 reward” tags were returned. This finding indicates that only 56.7% of the fish captured with “reward” tags were reported in SC. The pattern was similar for GA where 19.1 (±10.6)% of “reward” message tags were returned as compared with 30.1 (±15.6)% for “$100 reward” message tags. This difference yielded a reporting level of 63% for “reward” tags in GA. Currently, 50% is used as the estimate for the angler reporting level in population models for red drum and a number of other coastal finfish species in the South Atlantic region of the United States. Based on results of our study, the commonly used reporting estimate may result in an overestimate of angler exploitation for red drum.

Statue of Hon. John C. Calhoun erected in Statuary Hall of the Capitol at Washington ; proceedings in Statuary Hall and in the Senate and the House of Representatives on the occasion of the unveiling, reception, and acceptance of the statue from the State of South Carolina / compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on printing

This publication is the proceedings of the unveiling ceremony for the statue of John C. Calhoun in the Statuary Hall in Washington D.C.

The men behind the market: Merchants, the Atlantic slave trade, and the shaping of South Carolina plantation society, 1700–1756

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role played by merchants in the shaping of South Carolina plantation society in its early stages of development. In 1700 South Carolina was on the fringes of the British Empire. By mid-century the colony had become an integral part of the British Atlantic system. This dissertation addresses merchants' activity in the shaping of plantation society through their involvement in the Atlantic slave trade. Records of the British and South Carolina governments, and petitions from merchants on both sides of the Atlantic have been extremely valuable in understanding the complex and rapidly changing political affiliations of merchants on both sides of the Atlantic. These sources are valuable to this study since they illustrate the merchants' strategy of utilizing government policies to acquire the absolute best terms of trade. Records such as wills and inventories yielded valuable information on merchants' economic portfolios and provided valuable insight into their personal lives. The data shows that the integration of Colonial South Carolina into the global economy can be attributed to its merchant class, who actively sought out business opportunities in the global economy while working within the framework of British mercantilism.