The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-18
Dispensary Profits.
The Report of the Legisla.
tive Committee.

When the legislative examining COM
mittee had completed its work Of exam
ining the record Of the last quarter of
the State dispepeary yesterday and had
filed its report, State Liquor Commis-
siouer Mixson remarked to represep-
tativa of The State that the net profits
reported therein were over and above
the 500, 900 in cash that had been
paid ioto the State treasury sioce he
took charge Of the big gin mill. He
remarked further that the dispeusary
was running at its full capacity. On
Tuesday As 900 bottles we're put up
ready for shipment, aud Yesterdays
packages would amount to $4,000, an
average bottltng of 5000 gallons
day, yet he was unable to keep up with
the orders. The dispeusary is running
strictly as "moral institution
The report Of the legislative commit.
tee consisting Of Senator E6rd and
Representatives Jno. P Thomas, j.,
and R. NJ. Carroll, states that the men,
bers of the committee spent six days
examining the books. and that MIR.
E6rd was present at the "taking of the
stock" The report then gives the zig.
ures for the quarter heretofore published
10 The State. The committee states
that it has checked off all the disburse-
meuts, and 6nds the books in good con-
dition. The figures show net accrued
profit for the quarter Of 500. .5O7 l2.
The CON mit;ec continues: "The state
treasurer reports to US that the balance
to The credit Of the State dispeDsary on
October 81, 1895, was s73,076 So.
The difference between this balance
and the balance Of cash Dpon the State
mmissiouer's books is $31, ,345. 60
We have gone over the books of the
state treasurer 10 order to reconcile
these two balances with the following
result
s.The state com missioner reports to
US that he made cash collections of the
last quarters business for several days
in November amounting to the sum of
S34, ,360.77. His books show that these
collections were made and deposited in
the Farmers and Mechanics bank and
Carolina National bank between No
ven Der / aud November 9, aud between
said dates paid over to the state treas
urer. We found that number of war
rants drawn prior to October 31st bad
not been paid, to wit: x x < Deduct
ing the aggregate Of tbesesn os'andiug
warrants from the S34, ,36o.V, We have
$50, 1920. We also found that the
CON ptroler general bad issued war
raris for the salaries of dispeusary off,
ciaIs, which the state treasurer had paid
to the amount of 1914 80, and that
these warrants had not, on October 31ss
been entered upon books of the state
commissioner. Adding this amount,
S374.99 to the S30,S79 20, we get
S31, ,254 19 As mentioned in cur
last report. there was an error in the
state commissioners favor in warrant
No. 627, amounting to 81. Subtract
ing this 81 from the 31,254.19, we
bave S3l, ,250 l9 The difference be-
tween 31,345 So and S31 ,250.19 is
S1O577, which represents the present
difference between the books of state
treasurer and state com missioner
Taking into consideration the diScrep-
aucy of $105 81 previously reported,
We now report, upon above reconcile
uent, that the discrepancy between the
state treasurer's books and the state
com mmissioner's books is So cents.
We recommend that the state commits
sioner be authorized to adjust the above
discrepancy of S105.T.
In order to simplify the books Of
the state commissioner we again recon-
mend that the law be changed so as to
permit the salaries of the dispeusary
officials to be paid by warrant of state
commissioner, approved by the govern
or, as other expenses OF the dlspeDsary
are paid.
1--WE also recommend that it be pro.
vided by law that the state treasurer
uruish to the state commissioner a
monthly temized statement giving the
oumber and amounts end payees of all
dispensary warrants paid by him during
the month If this is done, it would
vastly facilitate the work Of any COM
mittee which undertakes to reconcile
the books of these two officers.
s'In conclusion, We would state that,
in our opinion, the financial transactions
Of the the dspensary are economically
and efficiently conducted under the