Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-22

detrimental to the morals, good
health and safety of the State, and
all such liquors may be seized wher-
ever found, without warrant. 1t
also prescribes the procedure to be
followed by those who desire to i'm
port liquor for personal use in order
that they may do SO legally. The
expense of making tests of liquors to
determine their purity is to be paid
by the State Treasurer out of the
funds of the dispenssry in his hands,
and not by the Board of Directors as
heretofore.
Section 2 repeals Section $50,
which creates the State Board of Di-
rectors, and thereby abolished that
board, the three members of which
are entrusted with the management
of a $3,O00,000 business and paid
only $400 year apiece. This is one
of the most important, as we'll as sem
sible and necessary, reforms contem-
plated by the bill.
The next section (31 is the most
striking feature of the entire bill, as
it contains the provisions that will
wipe out the graft that has attended
the purchase of liquor and other dis
pensary supplies. 1t first provides
for the election of Commissioner at
salary of $4,000 per year, who shall
be the executive board of the State
dispensary. His term of office is
fixed at two years. The Governor is
empowered to suspend the Commits
sioner for cause.
The Commissioner is required to
advertise for twenty days, commenc-
ing the first day of March in each
year, in two or more daily papers of
this State, and one daily newspaper
in each of the cities of Louisville,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Baltimore, Nd,
and Pittsburg, Pa, for bids to sup
ply the kinds and qualities of liquors
required for sale by the State dis
pensary during the ensuing year, the
same being specified in the advertise
ment. These bids must be sealed,
and without mark to distinguish
them one from another, and sent by
express within ten days of the last
advertisement to the State Treasu-
rer, in whose custody they remain
until opened, on March 31st, in pub.
lie, by a committee of three citizens,
appointed by the Governor ON or be-
fore March Goth. Contracts are to
be awarded by this committee to the
lowest responsible bidders for the
several kinds of liquors and other
supplies required. The members of
the committee are to be paid $40
eacn per day and five cents mileage
for each mile actually travelled, and
they are ineligible for reappointment.
All bidders are required to give good
and sufficient bond as guarantee of
good faith for the performance of
the obligation in the event of receiv-
ing contract. The contracts must
be approved by The Attorney Gene
raj and the amount of bond shall
equal 20 per cent of the estimated
cost of the liquor or other supplies to
be purchased.
The kinds of liquor that shall be
purchased are the following:
Pure cologne spirits, or deodorized
alcohol, 95 per cent from govern
ment bonded warehouses. Two
stamp whiskey, so per cent proof,
from the bonded warehouses of the
United States, with the understand
ing that the State shall buy the
whiskey on the warehouse certificates
and shall pay the revenue taxes itself
in order to insure its not being adul-
terated or tampered with. The
three kinds of liquors, corn, rye and
bourbon, shall be purchased in this
way in the quantities, which, in the
judgment of the Commissioners, will
be required by the demand in this
State. 1t is permissible to make
contracts for each of the four kinds
of alcoholic products above desig-
mated with different persons for the