The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
The New Bill Passed by the House
and Senate.
FULL TEXT OF THE LAW
As It Finally Passed the General
Assembly, and Which Will
be Signed by the
Governor.

election of State board of control, and
to further regulate the sale, use, con-
sumption, transportation and disposl-
ton of Intoxicating and alcoholic
liquors or liquids in the State; and pre-
scribe penalties for violation of dis
pensary laws, to police the same, ap-
proved March 6, 1885," as amended by
the Act approved 9Th of March, 1897,
be stricken cut, and insert in lieu
thereof the following, to be and to be
known as Section 2:
Section 2. That the State board Of
control is hereby abolished.
Section 3. A board, consisting Of
three members, to be known as the
board of directors of the State dispen-
sary, is hereby established, whose du-
ties and powers shall be hereinafter
defined. The members Of said board
shall be men Of good moral character,
not addicted to the use Of intoxicating
LIQUOR as beverage, shall be elected
by the General Assembly in joint ses,
sion as follows: The chairman of the
board shall be first elected and then
shall be elected the two remaining
members. The term of cfice of the
members Of said board shall be for two
years, unless sooner removed by the
Governor; they shall qualify and be
commissioned N the same manner as
other State officers In the event OF
a vacancy on said board, by death,
resignation or otherwise, such vacancy
shall be filed by appointment, by the
Governor, until the next session of the
General Assembly, when an election
shall be held to I'll said vacancy for the
unexpired term. Each member of said
board shall receive for his services the
same per diem and mileage allowed to
members of the General Assembly:
Provided, that no member of said board
shall receive per diem for more than
one hundred days in any fiscal year.
The said board shall devise such a sys-
tenn of bookkeeping and accounting as
it may deem advisable. The said board
shall prescribe all rules and regulations,
not inconsistent with law, for the gov
ernment of the State dispensary and the
county dispensaries. The General AS
sembly shall, at the present session,
upon the approval Of this Act, elect
the members Of said board, as provided
tor in this sectioz: Provided, that no
member of this board Of directors, while
holding this Office, shall become a can
didate for any other office.
Section I. A dispensary commits
sioner shall be elected by the General
Assembly, who shall hold Office Tor the
term of two years and until his success
sor shall be elected and qualified, and
who shall receive an annual salary OF
three thousand dollars, to be paid as
now provided by law. The Governor
shall have the right at any time to sus-
pend the said commissioner for any
cause which he shall consider sufficient
until the next meeting Of the General
Assembly and appoint some suitable
person to fiji such vacancy during such
suspension: In case Of the removal Of
said commissioner by the Governor he
shall, on the first day Of the next
meeting of the Legislature, make re-
sort to said General Assembly, stating
the reasons for his action, which &C,
tion, if approved by the General
Assembly, shall operate as a remov.
al and the General Assembly shall
elect successor to said commissioner.
In case OF the death, suspension or
other disability Of the commissioner
the Governor shall have the right to
appointa successor to fill said vacancy
until the next meeting of the General
Assembly. Said directors of the dis
pensary shall, within thirty days after
the approval of this Act bg the Cover
nor, and thereafter quarterly, advertise
in two or more daily newspapers OF this
State and ore or more daily newspa-
pers published without this State for
bids to be made w parties desiring to
furnish liquor to the dispersary for
said quarter; said bids shall be placed
in an envelope, securely sealed with
the seal of company, firm or corpora
tion, and having been so sealed,
shall be placed in the express office,
directed to the State Treasurer, Co.
lunbia, S. c.; and only one bid shall
be made by any one, which shall state
the quantity, price and chemlca! anal
ysis thereof, accompanying said bids
there shall be q sample of each kind Of
LIQUOR offered for sale containing not
more than ope-half pint each which
sample shall on its arrival be delivered
to the dispensary commissioner, to be
retained by him until after it has been
sscertained that the wines or liquors
purchased correspond in all respects
with that purchased, said samples to be
the property Of the State; and bids shall
be kept by the State Treasurer in his
Office and he shall not himself or allow
anyone to inspectsaid bids or the enVel-
opes containing said bids, but shall de-
liver said bids to the directors OF the
dispensary at meeting Of the board OF
directors, who shall open said bids IN
public and record all bids in book
kept for that purpose: said directors OF
the dispensary may reject any and al
bids and readvertise for other bids; said
directors of the dispensary shall pur,,
chase all alcoholic liquors for lawful
use in this State and shall have the
same tested and declared to be chemi-
cally pure; and if the wines or liquors
purchased fail to correspond in any re-
spect with the sample furnished the
seller thereof shall forfeit to the State
sum not exceeding the value OF said
liquor, to be recovered in an action
brought by the State aginst such seller;
and said contracts shall be awarded to
the lowest responsible bidder, for such
quantities and kinds Of liquors as may
be deemed necessary to the dispensary
for that quarter; and said contracts
shall further provide that the directors