The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-03-12
4 NEW LAW.
The Dispensary Profits to be Given TO

the Schools.
The State Superintendent OF Educa-
tion more than year ago directed
attention to the fact that the dispen-
sary authorities had invested in liquor
a lot Of money belonging to the public
schools Of the State. There was no
way for the funds to be gotten for the
schools, and the dispenSary authorities
claimed that the funds were needed
as assets upon which to conduct, the
enormous business Of the dispenSarY-
over two millions of dollars year.
At the last session Of the legislature
there was some talk that the diSpen-
sary keeps too large stock on hand,
and an investigation was suggested by
some, but the matter went up in
smoke. However, the legislature
passed an act reducing to 100000 the
amount CT school funds to be used as
assets by the State board. The act
also provides a more specific mode for
apportioning and declaring the profits.
The new act says:
That the directors of the State dis
pensary shall pay over to the State
treasurer by Jan. 1st, 1904, in equal
semi-annual payments all of the school
fund reported by them in excess OF
100000 for the benefit of the COM
mon schools Of the State, to be appor-
toned by and paid out on the warrant
Of the comptroller general as is now
provided by law for the apportion-
ment and payment Of dispenSaryprofts
for the benefit Of said schools, provid-
ed that the first payment shall be
made on the 3Oth day Of June, 1902.
Section 2. That from and after the
approval of this act, the directors of
the State dispenSary shall make a
quarterly statement for the purpose Of
ascertaining the net profits accruing
to the State from the sales made from
the State diSpenSary and shall pay
over the profits so aScertained to the
State treasurer within ten days there
after for the benefit Of the common
schools Of the State, to be apportioned
by and paid out on the warrant Of the
comptroller general as is now provided
by law for the apportionment and pay
ment Of dispensary profits for said
schools. The first settlement made
under this act shall be on the 31st day
of March, 1902.
Section 3. That the county treasur-
ers Of the several counties Of this State
shall not pay to the authorities Of the
several cities and towns entitled to
dispensary profits, their share Of such
profits except upon the warrants Of
the county board Of control and coun-
ty auditor issued to the authorities Of
said cities and towns, when settle
ments are made by them as required
by law. The said county board of
control and county auditor shall at
the same time also certify in writing
to the county supervisor OF the
county entitled to share the dispen-
sary profits the amount thereof to
which the county is entitled.
Section I. All profits from county
dispensaries subject to distribution
among the counties, cities and towns
OF the State which have accrued since
the fourth Monday of December, 1901,
and which may hereafter accrue, shall
be distributed monthly among the
counties cities and towns entitled
thereto in the proportion fixed by law,
and that the settlements to ascertain
the same shall be made on the fourth
Monday in each month, instead Of
quarterly as heretofore provided by
law.
The act has been approved by the
governor.