CHAPTER 11. COTTON - Texas Statutes

VERNON'S CIVIL STATUTES

TITLE 4. AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE

CHAPTER 11. COTTON

Art. 165-4. COTTON RESEARCH AWARD FUND.

Sec. 1. By this Act it is expressly declared to be a State policy

that the encouragement and stimulation of new uses for cotton

shall be a matter of State-wide importance and concern and that

the various agencies of the State Government, and more

particularly the various State agricultural departments,

agencies, schools, colleges, etc., are hereby directed to take

full and sufficient notice and consideration of the policy herein

established and set forth, and the activities of all agencies of

the State Government, and more particularly those especially

mentioned above are hereby directed to be revamped and

reorganized so as to conform with the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 2. The Governor of this State is hereby directed as the

Chief Executive and Administrative Officer of this State to use

his efforts to carry out the policy set forth above.

Sec. 3. In order to assist in carrying out the policy set forth

in this Act, there is hereby created the "Cotton Research Award

Fund", and there is hereby appropriated to this fund out of any

money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of

Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars. The President of the

University of Texas, the President of the A. & M. College,

and the President of Texas Technological College are hereby

designated as a Board of Trustees of said fund. Said Board of

Trustees are hereby appointed and empowered to dispense said fund

in keeping with rules and regulations which a majority of said

Board may adopt, provided that the same are not in conflict with

the provisions of this Act. Said rules and regulations shall be

drawn up and published within ninety days from the effective date

of this Act, and among other things, they shall provide for:

(a) An award of not less than Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars,

nor more than Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars to any resident

Texas citizen, who, by chemical research or other invention or

device, discovers any process or method which hereafter brings

about an increase in the consumption of cotton annually in an

amount equal to or greater than three hundred thousand (300,000)

bales of five hundred (500) pounds net weight;

(b) The persons mentioned above are to be the sole judges as to

whether the required increase in consumption of cotton above

mentioned has actually taken place, and the Comptroller of Public

Accounts is hereby authorized to pay warrants drawn on the

"Cotton Research Award Fund" when said warrants are signed by a

majority of the three persons above mentioned.

Acts 1939, 46th Leg., p. 1.