Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-02-08
THB DISPENSARY Law.
Pure Liquor in Sealed
Packages.
DRINKING SALOONS MUST GO!

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| Incident to the Sale and Use of
! Liquor. Therefore, the New
Law Seeks to Regulate
the Business and to
Take the Proceeds.
THE FULL TEXT Of THE RECENT ACT.
An act to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors as bev-
erage within this State, except as here
in permitted.
Section /. Be it enacted by the SEN
ate and house Of representatives of
the State of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in general assembly and by
the authority of the same, That on
andsafter the first day of July, A. d.,
1898, the manufacture, sale, barter or
exchange, or the keeping or offering
for sale, barter, trade or exchange,
within this State, of any spirituous,
malt, vinous, fermcnted or other intoXi-
eating liquors, or any compound or
mixtures thereof, by whatever name
called, which will produce intoxica-
ton, by any person, business firm, cor
poration or association, shall be regu-
lated and conducted as provided in
| this act.
Sec. 2. The governor shall, within
thirty days from the approval of this
act, appoint a commissioner, and all
subsequent appointments, which ap-
pointments shall be submitted to the
senate at its next ensuing session for
its approval, believed by him to be an
abstaincr from intoxicants, who shall,
under such rules and regulations as
may be made by the State board of
control, purchase all intoxicating liq-
uors for lawful sale in this State, Civ
ing preference to manufacturers and
brewers doing business in this State,
and furnish the same to such persons
as may be designated as dispensers
thereof, to be sold as hereafter pre-
scribed in this act. Said commissioner
shall reside and have his place of bus
mess in the city of Columbia in this
State, and hold his office two years
from appointment, and until another
is appointed in his stead, subject to re-
moval for cause by the State board of
control. He shall qualify and be COM
missioned the same as other officers,
and receive an annual salary of 81 800,
payable at the same time and in the
same manner as is provided for the pay
ment of salaries of State officers. He
shall be allowed a bookkeeper, who
shall be paid in the same manner q
salary of 81 200, and such other assist
ants as in the opinion of the board of
control may be deemed necessary. He
shall not sell to the county dispensers
any intoxicating or fermented liquors
except such as have been tested by the
chemist of the South Carolina college
and declared to be pure and unadul-
terated: Provided, That said State
board of control shall have authority
to appoint such assistants as they may
find necessary to assist the chemist Of
the South Carolina college in making
the analysis required by this act, and
the said State board of control may fix
such reasonable compensation, if any,
as they may deem proper for the SER
vices rendered by such chemists, or
such assistants. The State commits
sioner shall not receive from said
county dispensers for such liquors sold
to them, more than so per cent. above
the net cost thereof, and all amounts
so received by him from said sales
shall be by him paid over to the treas
urer of the State monthly, under such
rules as may be made by the State
board Of control to insure the faithful
return of the same; and the State
treasurer shall keep separate account
with said fund, from which the COM
missioner shall draw, from time to
time, upon warrants duly approved by
the said board, the amounts necessary
to pay the expenses incurred in con-
ductng the business Of said agency.
All rules and regulations governing the
said commissioner in the purchase of
intoxicating liquors, or in the perform
ance of any of the duties of his office,
where the same are not provided for
by law, shall be prescribed by State
board of control, composed Of the gov
ernor, the comptroller general and at
torney general. He shall, before en-
tcring upon the duties of his office,
execute bond to the State treasurer,
with sufficient sureties, to be approved
by the attorney general, in the penal
sum of $4,000 for the faithful per-
formance of the duties of his office.
In all purchases or sales of intoXi-
eating liquors made by said commits
sioner, as contemplated in this act, the
commissioner shall cause certificate
to be attached to each and every pack
age containing said liquors, when the
same is shipped to him from the place
of purchase, or by him to the county
dispensers, certified by his official sig
nature and seal, which certificate shall
state that the liquors contained in said
package have been purchased by him
for sale within the State Of South Car
olna, or to be shipped out of the
State, under the laws of said State,
and without such certificate, any pack
age containing liquors which shall be
brought into the State, or shipped out
of the State, or shipped from place to
place within the State by any railroad,
express company, or other common
carrier, shall be regarded as intended
for unlawful sale, and upon conviction
thereof, such common carrier shall be
liable in a penalty of $500 for each Of
fensc, to be recovered against said
common carrier in any court of compe-
tent jurisdiction by complaint pro-
cccdings to be instituted by the solici-
tor for any circuit, with whom evi-
dencc of the violation may be lodged
by any citizen having knowledge or
information Of the violation; and any
person knowingly attaching or using
such certificate without the authority
of the commissioner, or any counter
felt certificate for the purpose of secur-
ing the transportation of any intoxi-
eating liquors into, out of, or within
this State, in violation of law, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished
by fine of not less than $500 and i'm
nrisOnment in the penitentiary for not