Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-07
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

COuuly "oo
held last Wednesday. All the mem
bers being present, Supervisor Boyd,
Commissioners Lumpkin and Kirkpa-
trick and w. B. Wilson, Jr., attorney.
The usual routine business was
transacted, but the greater portion OF
the day was given to the selection OF
papers in which to publish the quar-
terly reports of the county supervisor.
The law requires that the supervisor
publish quarterly an itemized state
ment of his disbursements for the
three months preceding and 1t Is spec
flied that the amount to be paid for
the publication Of these reports shall
not exceed sixty dollars a year. Short
ly after. going into office, Attorney
Wilson gave it as his opinion that
York county was exempt from the OBJ
legation to publish these quarterly re-
ports, and the report that should have
been published April / last, or very
soon thereafter was allowed to go over.
The attention Of the attorney, how
ever, was called to the fact that he
was mistaken in his reading OF the
law; that York county Is not exempt
and that the reports have to be pub
lished and this raised anew the main
question, how to satisfy the newspa-
pers, some Of which were claiming
that their readers were being discrim-
mated against.
Unwilling to take the responsibility
of choosing between the papers, Su-
pervisor Boyd, through Attorney Will
son, sent out the following to each
publisher.
Rock Hill, s. c., June 1. 1907.
Under the law, am required to
print quarterly statements OF all dis
bursements made by the county COM
missioners, in some county paper. The
law provides that the cost OF this
printing shall not exceed the sum ol
$50 per annum.
II you desire, please submit bids on
this work at the next meeting OF the
board Of county commissioners, which
will be held at Yorkville on Wednes-
day, June 5th, 1907. Yours truly,
Thomas w. Boyd, Supervisor.
All of the papers in the county with
the exception Of the Fort Mill Times
replied to the foregoing communica-
tion. The reply Of The Enquirer was
as follows:
Yorkville, 8. c., June 5, 1907.
Mr.. Thomas w. Boyd, Supervisor:
We have your letter Of June l, kindly
offering us the privilege Of bidding on
the publication Of the quarterly state
ments of disbursements by the county
commissioners, for which the law al
lows you to pay $50 a year. and In
reply we beg leave to advise you that
we are willing to do the work for the
sum named.
If it be your purpose and desire TO
secure the widest possible publicity
for these reports within the limits of
your sixty dollars, we will be glad to
lend such assistance as may be al
forded in the following propositions:
Let the reports be sent all the pa
pers in the county with the under
standing that each paper that pub
fishes all four of them receives Its
pro rata of $50; but the paper which
publishes one or more and not all four
receives nothing-the total amount 10
be allowed for the publication to be d.
vided among those that complete the
work We would stipulate also that
each paper must publish each report
complete in one issue.
Thanking you for your notice in re-
gard to the matter, we are,
Very truly,
The Yorkville Enquirer.
Late in the afternoon, a representa-
tive of The Enquirer went to the office
or the county commissioners Ill Tepiy
to a telephone message from Attorney
Wilson, who explained that the Rock
Hill Herald and Yorkville New Era
had submitted a combination bid or
$3.50, and separate bids. Under a
separate bid, the New Era was to print
the reports for $48. The Herald and
Record were both less. Mr.. Wilson
stated that he had consulted the other
papers by telephone and otherwise
with reference to The Enquirer's prop
osition and that they all claimed that
they could not afford to set the type
for their pro rata of $50. He wanted
to know If The Enquirer desired to
submit an additional separate bid. He
was assured, however, that such was
not the case; that The Enquirer offered
to do the work alone for $50, or pro
rata with any one or all the other pa
pers in the county, as many as cared
to enter into the arrangement for its
pro rata of the $60-$12 If there were
five papers, SIS If there were four,
$40 If there were three and $50 If there
were only two.
Upon motion of Mr.. Kirkpatrick,
the board accepted the combination
arrangement between the Herald and
the New Era.