OFFICEOFTHE A-ITORNEYGENERALOFTEXAS 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 Decemiber31,
Holmes wae elected Pub110Weigher 1 of Sourry County, Texas, fOr &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.-. ., 2 

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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 &aspre%ehted hia bond to the Coamiasionere~ Court of Sourzy ‘County ior lt,a approval, not-with~standing the, faot. that %aid Artiole prt.vides amongother 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 TheAmarillo Court of 31~11Appeals 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 %ameFrealnot, and it would be the duty Of the Coamiaeionere* Uourt of said County to approve the bond or suah person ii the aemewere round to be surfiaient under the law.”Honorable

; = 3tan P. Thorpe P’s4 

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## titsrleht of .m lr,dirfdusl to qu3lif7 aa I waf;l.l’,lsrior t&e wbllc under .'irticlc 5704 

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### Itwas fald fn s&Z opinions that angFps?son zg qualify as dwsi:.ha: for the TJSlia f2- ilL;c?atder mid 

### hrtiale5704,. 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 &hobend of zl 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-