The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-03-03
DISPENSARY STOCK
TO BE CLOSED OUT
Special Act Providing for
Winding up Business
s. NASH IS COMMISSIONER
The Bill Creating the Commission was
introduced by Senator Wharton
ut Recent Session.

The Laurcns county dispensary
board is no more Nearly four
months have gone by since the rum
shop came to its death, and yet the
board lived on and on. The clerks
ct nj are no more No more salaries
TO pay. BY an Act, introduced by
Senator Wharton, means for disposing
of the $4,000 worth of wet goods have
been provided by which the county
will no longer have to pay the heavy
expense of keeping it on hand. Tn
der the Carey Cothran law the board
could have sold the stock out at re-
tail, II had not so peremptorily closed
the dispenSaries the morning after
the election. Then if there had been
any part of the stock still on hand the
board was authorized by law to sub
nit it in bids to other boards in the
State Why the board did not sell is
not known
Now, there remains no excuse for
further delays since the passage of
the Wharton bill and the stock will
in all likelihood be sold very soon
Mr.. Nj. l.. Nash, former bookkeeper
and secretary of the board has been
commissioned at a salary of $500 to
act as agent and sell the stock: that
it Will be easily disposed of is beyond
ln
the other county boards to buy such
stock provided its bid is the lowest
and all these transactions come under
the eye of the DiSpcnsary AUDITOR
There has been much comment on
the inability OF htc LaurenS county
board to get rid of the stock of goods
both here and elsewhere in the State.
especially since it has cost the county
something like 800 month in salar-
les and other expenses to keep it on
hand. And now that a settlement OF
the difficulty is in sight, the news will
be received with much pleasure. The
board is now extinct and Mr. Nash has
sole control of the dispensary stock
Following is the text Of the bill pass
by the general assembly:
"A bill to provide for the creation
of a commission to take charge and
dispose Of stock of liquors and other
property of the dispensalies in Clar-
endon and LaurenS counties.
That the Governor shall also appoint
upon the recommendation of the Lau-
rens delegation in the General AS
Sembly, one person as commissioners
for Laurens county, who shall enter
into bond in the sum Of five thousand
dollars, with sufficient surety, to be
approved by the clerk of court for
LaurenS county. conditioned for the
faithful performance of his duties
said bond to be filed with and kept by
the clerk of court for Laurcns county
That the dispensary board is hereby
required, upon the production Of the
commission or certificate Of appoint
ment and qualification OF the said
commissioners to turn over to him all
stocks of liquors, moneys. books re
cords. and other property of the Lau-
rcns county dspcnsary now i'm their
possession, and take his receipt there
for
That the said commissioner of Lau-
rcnS county is hereby authorized and
directed to sell and dispose OF all Ii
quors. stock and other property be
longing to the Laurcns dispensary for
cash or, upon approval, credit Of not
more than ninety days Provided. such
sales shall be to other county dispen-
sary boards i'm this State. and none Of
said liquors shall be sold to any in
dividuals, firms or corporations with
i'm this state nor by retail.
That the proceeds arising from the
sale of the property of the said Iau-
rcns dispcnsary shall be turned over
to the county treasurer to be applied
as now required by law. after first pay
ing the commissioner provided for
herein the sum of six hundred dollars
as compensation for his services"
The bill is amended to provide for
the supervision of the Dispensary
Auditor. who shall require county
board to accept the Laurcns bid, pro-
vided it is lower than any other sub
mitted.