The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-05-05

State to seize contraband goods and
the seizures should 60 as far as posi-
BILE to pay for the maintenance of the
constabulary.
1t is all right for the officials to use
the samples of whiskey, he said. and
he could see no harm in an official
even giving a bottle sometimes to a
friend.
II would not hesitate" declared the
governor, "to 60 in the sample room
and got a bottle of whiskey if I felt
the need of it, but Lwould never think
of taking an y of the contraband Ii
quor no matter how choice it might
b."
Continuing, Governor Ellerbe said
he had advised the board to turn over
the management of the details of the
dispensary to Commissioner Vance.
It would be we'll nigh impossible for
board meeting once month to man.
age everything about the dispensary.
The duties of the board, he thought,
were like those of the board of regents
for the hospital for the in sane. 1t
was to exercise general supervision
over all the affairs and leave to the
management to execute.
On one point the governor was par
ticularly emphatic. He did not think
it wise to leave the purchasing of
whiskey to one man. That the board
ought not to do.
Returning othe question of contra
band goods he said that even il the
Beckroge trunk was sold that it had
net tccn sold in q husinesslike and
proper manner. 1t should have been
sold to the highest bidder, he declared.
II have given Vance order, howev-
err" he said, mot to let any contra.
band things 60 out of the Gispensary. l"
He went on to say that hereafter
trunks, cigars and sucn like things
seized with liquor would be advertised
and sold TO the highest bidder. The
seized liquor could not be disposed OF
in this way, but after having analyzed
it could be bottled and sent out if up
to the required standard. He has al
ready given orders that a list of every
trunk, pair of shoes or anything Of
the sort must be kept and that he was
going to hold the persons in charge
responsible for every thing.
Governor Ellerbe in conclusion said
that he was going to try and carry out
his pledge of a clean and business ad-
ministration of the dispensary.
The Road Law.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State Of
South Carolina, That an act entitled
IAN Act to provide 81 stem of coun-
ty government for the counties OF this
State, so far as it relates to the work.
ing and maintaining the roads and
highways 10 this State" approved
March 23d, 1896, be. and the same is
hereby, amended by striking out Sec
ton thereof and inserting in lieu Of
said Section the following:
SECTION 4. That all able bodied
male persons and all male persons
able to perform or cause to be per-
formed the labor herein required, be-
tween the ages of eig nteen and fifty
years, except in Horny snd Spartan
! burg counties, where the ages shall be
from twenty one to fifty. and also ex:
cept ministers of the Gospel in actual
charge of a congregation, and persons
permanently disabled in the military
service of this State, and persons who
served in the late war, shall be liable
annually to do and perform four days
labor on the highways, under the di
rection of the Overseer of the road dis.
trict in which he SHALL reside, except
in the in the counties OF Spartanburg,
Anderson, Greenville snd Darlington,
wherein the number of working days
shall be three, and the counties of
Orangeburg, Pickens, Saluda, Edge
field, CoIleton, Chester, Barnwell,
New berry and Williamsburg, where
in the number of working days shall
be six, and the counties of Charleston,
Georgetown, Beaufort and Florence,
wherein the number of working days
shall be eight: Provided that the
County Board of Commissioners OF
any county may cause to be levied an
additional tax, not to exceed one mill.
on all the taxable property OF any
township in their county, when so re
quired by a written petition signed by
two. thirds of the freeholders of such
township, such tax to be collected as
the other taxes, and to be expended on
the roads and highways of each town
ship.
SECTION 2. That the said act be, and
the same is hereby, further amended
by striking out Section q thereof and
inserting in lieu of said Section the
following:
SECTION 81. That the County Treas
urers of the counties of this State are
hereby authorized and empowered to
receive from any and all persons liza
BILE to road duties as Communication tax
in the counties of Abbeville, dol.
lars, to be fixed by the County Board
of Commissioners; Aiken, one dollar
Anderson, one dollar; Barnwell, one
dollar; Beaufort, two dollars; Berke'
ley, one dollar; Chester, two dollars;
Chesterfield, one dollar; Charleston,
two dollars; Colleton, two dollars;
Clarendon, one dollar; Darlington,
one dollar: Edgefeld, two dollars;
Fairfield, two dollars; Florence, two
dollars; Georgetown, two dollars ;
Greenville, one dollar; Hampton, one
dollar; Horny, two dollars; Kershaw,
one dollar; Lancaster, one dollars;
Laurens, two dollars; Lexington,
one dollar; Newberry, one dollar; /;
Marlboro, one dollar; Marion,