The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-30
AT THE OLD STAND.
SOUTH CAROLINA'S DISPENSARIES
TO BE OPENED AUGU ST1ST.
Governor Tillman Notifies the People that
His Pet Scheme, Dispensary, will be
Put in Force Again Early.

Columbia, S. c., July Ex-Governor Till
man promised in his campaign speeches a
few days ago to reopen the dspensaries
the LIST day of August. Today he issued the
following proclama ton:
State of South Carolina, Executive
Chamber.-Whereas, under the provisions
of an act to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors, as beverage
within the state, except as herein provided,
approved December a. 1892, the state as
sumed control of the legal liquor traffic
in South Carolina, commencing July 1, 1893;
and, whereas, the said policy and purpose
of the state to permit the sale of liquor
by and through the states officers only,
was reafirmed by an act, approved Decem-
Der %, 1893, entitled AN Act to Declare the
Law in Reference to and Further Regulate
the Use, Sale, Consumption, Transportation
and Disposition of Alcoholic Liquids or
Liquors Within the State of South Carolina,
and to Police the Same; and, whereas, the
supreme court of the state of South Caro-
lima, by q decision rendered the 18th of
April. 1894, declared the first act, above
mentioned, unconstitutional, except one
small proviso of one section the execu-
tive, in obedience to what he conceived to
be the will of the court, closed all the dis
pensaries and discharged the constabulary
In a subsequent decision, the court still
ignoring the act of 1893 above mentioned
be no legal sale of liquor by license, but
has seemingly on purpose omitted to men
ton construe the act of 1893; and, where
as the state of South Carolina, acting in
good faith through the executive branch of
the government, and relying upon the de-
cison Of the supreme court in the case of
Hoover vs.. the Town Council of Chester,
in which it was declared that the act of
1892 was in effect an act to regulate the
sale of SpirituouS liquors, the power to
do which is universally recognized has in
vested large sums OF money in liquors for
sale under the provisions of the two acts
mentioned; and, Whereas this liquor is now
being held at heavy expense, while the
state is hooued with contraband whisky,
sold without authority OF law.
NOW therefore, J. b. X. Iillman, COVER
nor of the state of south Carolina, in eXer-
else of my discretion, as executive do issue
this my proclamation and declare that the
said supreme court, having adjourned with
out III any wise giving expression IN re
gard to the act of 1893, that the said act Is
of full force and effect, and Will be en-
forced in accordance with my oath OF office,
until the court shall have passed upon the
same, OF until the legislature shall have
repealed it,
Tine county dispensers in the various
counties will open their dlspenSarles on
sted, including public carriers are notified
that the importation of liquors will be at
the risk of seizure and prosecution, and all
contrab band liquors found in the borders of
the StJ tie will be seized and connSCated ac-
cording to law.
IN testimony whereof, l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the great seal of
the state to be affixed, at Columbia, this 23d
hundred and nineteenth year of the indie
pendence of the United States of America.
"B r. TILLMAN.
by the Governor