OFFICE OF THE A-ITORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Haoorable Ben F. Thorpe 

county httorney 

sourry county 

Snyder, Texar 

Dear Sirt 

has bsen oareiul 

a8 followsir 

on the above matter 

te from said request 

statement of 

uly eleoted Public 

of scurry county, 

ch &ded Decemiber 31, 

Holmes wae elected Pub110 Weigher 

1 of Sourry County, Texas, f Or 

&January.l, 1943, whlah term 

ember 31, 1944, and has duly qualified 

aking oath and slaking bond as rrqulred 

vhs pt30ple 0r m3of.tiot Ho. 1, of Sourrr 

County hate never abolished the 0iSic6 of Bblic 

%eigher in the manner provided by Art. 5686, 

Vernon’e’Ann. St. 
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2 754 

Honorable Ben F. lM?pe pago 2 

“Snyder ie the only towa In Prroinot No. 1, 

“-yoi Scurry Coaoty and it doss not handle e eufiiclent 

quentity of any o? the oomoditiee itsmiaed in Art. 

5681, Vernonfs Aaa. St. to authorize Covexmr to 

appoint Pablio 3eighers. 

Tt. L. Terry la manager df a narehouee, looatsd 

in Preainot No. 1, of Sourry, aaid uaxehoaee being 

privately owmd, where oommodities, aspeoially oottoa, 

is rarehoused by the general pabllo and a fee ahargad 

therefor. 

%ti. L. Terry 1% stt6mptiag to qaaliry as a 

l Cdtiiied Publio ‘#sigher* undtlr Art. 5704 Vernon’s 

Arm. St., snd he &as pre%ehted hia bond to the Coamiasionere~ Court of Sourzy ‘County ior lt,a approval, 

not-with~standing the, faot. that %aid Artiole prt.vides 

among other things, that~;-*I%plaosa where thera %re 

no publio weighera appointed or eleoted, any persoa who 

rhall weigh cotton, eta,, for co~ion shall be 

required before waighlng suoh produoe to enter a bond* + 

In the case of Precinot IIt+ 1, ot Soarry C&mty there I 

16 an eleoted and qualliisd mblio ui8lghsr. for said 

Pr&liti0t. 

Vor yoti arai&anar 1 oall, atteation to the 

holding ot The Amarillo Court of 31~11 Appeals In 

the oese of Uartin et al., vs Boy, 234 5. ‘X. 698, 

in whloh it held ‘that my person had the right 

to parsue the oooupation of weigher for the pabllo 

and that the bond reqalredd sash weigher is the 

band provided for in Art. 7834 Can. T%xa% Statatrs 

1920. (Art. 5704, Revised Cioil Statute8 oi 1925.’ 

Vndsr the above holding i.t alearly appears 

that any one might enter into the bualnese enterprise 

oi’weigher for pablio hire by making e good and 

eaffioient bond, regardless of thefaot that there 

1s a duly eleoted Public Veigher, Ualy quelirled, 

for the %ame Frealnot, and it would be the duty Of 

the Coamiaeionere* Uourt of said County to approve 

the bond or suah person ii the aeme were round to be 

surfiaient under the law.” 
Honorable 

; = 

3tan P. Thorpe P’s4 3 

This 3epaztzaant hw wrlttan seoaral opZnlon8 relstfra 

to tits rleht of .m lr,dirfdusl to qu3lif7 aa I waf;l.l’,lsr ior 

t&e wbllc under .'irticlc 5704 7. A. C. i’. , ~~or.Ie 8ooh 

op&mt bring O-51 and C-43, aopii?a of a:::c!i.are hrrrawltlt 

n,zalossa. 

It was fald fn s&Z opinions that angFps?son zg 

qualify as d wsi:.ha: for the TJSlia f2- ilL;c? atder mid 

hrtiale 5704,. end uslgh for the fublio ior oozpmeat1z.n 

irres;ectloa as rhatiter or sot thare ad regularly elaatkd 

or appobtsd publlo wi~,b~ts ia t3s &se pcal;lcC. It 

is tw opinion, thararore, t::nt the Cocmisslomrs* Court 

of Sourry County 1s authorlzsd to npyrova &ho bend of 

z l L. Terry a3 publfo =el&)raz’ of rrrsclnat I:o. 1 of rraurry 

Cost&y Texas, ander tha fiats ytxtad by pou and aa 

aathorh in raid Qtiols 5794, seld bend bein otheru?ea m.fficiant. 

m23tiw thst thin eaticfaatorily 3OlHQW6 your 13-