128 Ga. 99 | Ga. | 1907
By an act approved December 15, 1902 (Acts of 1902, p. 222) > the-county commissioners of Lee county were constituted a board for the establishment, management, and control of dispensaries in the county. The act provided that such board might establish a dispensary for the sale of liquors in any of the incorporated towns of the county whenever the municipal authorities should, by proper ordinance, determine that it was desirable to have a dispensary in the town. One half of the profits of each dispensary was to be paid into the county treasury, and the other half into the treasury of the town in which the dispensary was located. A dispensary was established in the city of Smithville, one of the incorporated municipalities of the county. On August 1, 1906, an act was approved providing for local option elections in counties in which the sale of whisky is not lawful except through
Judgment affirmed.