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Show STATE'S LIQUOR PROFITS. South Carolina State. The annual report of the State Dispensary Dis-pensary will soon be made, and the exact ex-act figures as to the Bute's big liquor business will be given for the year Just ended. In round figures it is stated that the report will show that the business has paid $350,000 to the counties, towns and cities and the school fund this year, over $400 000 of this having been paid over to the counties, towns and cities. The total amount of profits paid to the school fund Is about $140,000. this Including In-cluding the last three quarterly payments pay-ments required by the new act. The volume of business for the year Is considerably larger than that of last year. The experts who have been examining examin-ing the books, accounts and all affairs of the dispensary under the act requiring requir-ing such examination to be made have not yet filed their report .with the Governor Gov-ernor to be -transmitted to the General Assembly. The Institution ended the year with Its accounts more thoroughly balanced ud than for some years. |