The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-01-31
DISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS
10 BE Divided Among Counties
Towns and Cities Having Dis


| ""~hS una S1t1e3 Having Dis
pensaries.
Mr.. Guntcr had a bill to change tn,
percentage OF the profits of the dis
nehsary. He wanted 90 per cent 0
the profits to go 10 the counties anC
wanted to force the counties to give &c
per cent of their 53 per cent to the
county schools. The chief difference
was that he proposed to reduce the
States profit to 2 per cent. Only the
net profits are referred to.
Mr.. Croft urged that those counties
that enforced the dispensary should
yet the profits.
MI. Prince said the bill was con-
stltutlonal and fair, and the plain words
were that the dispensaly profits should
go to the counties that make the profit.
Mr. De1.oach SAID there was no dis
pensary in his county and his pcople
did not want a dlspensary. He cx-
planned the history of the dispensary
AT Tirzah. If this bill was intended to
drive York County to the dispcnsary it
was an outrage and wrong.
Mr.. Croft asked if York County was
80 righteous as not to want a dispen-
sary, would it not be fair for it not to
want tho profits OF counties that paid
for the policing of this very trouble
some traffic.
Mr.. DeLoach insisted that the dis
pensary was a State and not a county
law.
Mr.. j. II. Kinard said he lived in d
county without Il dispensary and want
Ell the money to 60 to the schools. lie
thought the counties that had tlispcn-
saries should get the profits.
Mr.. Prince, in reply to Mr.. DeLoach,
said he did not believe in forcing dis
pcnsaries on any one, but he insisted
that those who bought the liquor
should get the profit. Ike honor.
cd those who would not have liquor for
sale, but that was not the issue.
MIR. Dcl.oach asserted that if this
bill was to force dlspcnsarics on his
people its purpose was isnoblc.
MIR. Prince could not see why those
who so seriously opposed the traffic
should want the profits from the
obnoxious business. For three years
his people made $4,000 for the dis
pcnsary, and did not get cent of that
profit, for it was said the county al
ieady had its 50 per capita.
MIR. Robinson proposed to give the
towns in Pickens County rs per cent
and the county 70 per cent. Lost MIR.
Bates wanted the cities to have 40 per
cent instead of 45.
The bill rs finally ordered to its
third reading provites
Section l.. That on and after the
first day Of April, 1901, the net profits
derived in this State from the sales of
splrituous, malt, or vinous liquors, in
cluding all beers, wines, etc, now sold
under the dispcnsary law, be, and the
same are hereby, apportioned rs fol-
lows: Two per cent Of said net pro-
fits to go to the State, to be distributed
as now provided by law, 45 per cont Of
the said net profits to go to lthc several
towns and cities in which the tlispen-
saries are located, and 50 per cent TO
go to the several counties in which the
dispensaries are located, and TO be dis
tributed by the several county board of
commissioners as provided in this Act
Section 2. The county board of
commissioners in each of the various
counties in which dispensarics are
located shall apportion the net profits
coming to each county, as provided by
Section l of this Act, in the following
manner, viz: That not less than 10
per cent of said profits to be applied to
the public schools of SAID county, and
the balance of said profits, whatever
the same may be, to be distributed for
the uses and benefits Of said county, as
the county board of commissioners
thereof may see fit.
Section 3. The county treasurer
shall be required to make mouthly
settlements of the profits going to the
counties and cities and towns, and
place to the credit OF the counties,
cities and towns their respective
amounts by the 18th day of each
month.
Section 4. That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
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