The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-31

sentative number of farmers met in
the court house yesterday ut 10
o'clock to decide whether private
wcighers should weigh their cotton
or not.
Mr.. Frank Britton was cal led to the
chair and f. NJ. Makeig, Esq, re-
quested to act rs secretary. After
several short speeches from promi-
ment farmers upon the subject, Esq.
dakcig read the law. There being
only few present. to what was ex-
pcctcd. the meeting adjourned to
meet II. o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The minutes were read of the fore
noon session and accepted. Mr.
seth Mills was called for and stated
that he thought that the public
weigher should weigh the cotton for
McLcnnan county; also moved that a
committee be appointed to draft res
olutions embracing the sentiments of
the body. Messrs. Mills, as chair
man. sherman, trowder, Nally and
scott, were appointed to draft rcsolu
tions. In the absence of the commit
tee spccche, were called for and sever
nj responses were made, all concur
ring in sentiment with former opin-
ions expressed, that the sworn and
bonded public wcighcr should weigh
the farmers cotton.
The committee presented rcsolu-
tons as follows:
Whereas, a large proportion of the
cotton brought to the city of Waco
and sold by the farmers of Mclennan
county is weighed by persons select d
and appointed by the buyers
thereof, such persons being private
wcighcrs and under no special legal
responsibility to the seller of such
cotton TO rightly perform his duties
Ms such weigher: and
Whereas, Many of the farmers of
McIcnnan county are dissatisfied
with the result of their experience
with such persons as weighers oftheir
cotton; and
Whereas, We have a legally elected
public weighcr in whom we have EN-
tire confidence and who is under a
good and sufficient bond to perform
justly and impartially his duties rs
such; therefore be il
Resolved, That we will permit no
other person except said public
wci@hcr or his deputies to weigh our
cotton. and we will sell our cotton to
no buyer who is unwilling that the
same should be weighed by the said
public wcigher or his deputies, and
that we recommend and earnestly re-
quest of the reguler public weigher
that he appoint none but men well
known to the people to be men of in
tegrity and possessing the necessary
qualifications to enable him or them
to perform his duty a such deputy
public weigher. and that the same
public weighcr be asked to publish
list of his deputies in the city papers
and more especially i'll the weekly of
the county.
\ committee was also appointed TO
have printed circulars and have some
posted on every gin house and other
public places rs might be thought
necessary.
The following is the revised stat
utes. section &, of an act to amend an
act entitled, IAN act-creatlng the
office of Public Wcigher, and regua-
ting the appointment and defining the
duties and liabilities thereof which
hns direct reference to the matter dis
cussed in convention yesterday, found
ON page Is. appendix of revised stat
utcs. which reads a. follows:
1T shall not be lawful for any ta,-
tor or commission merchant or any
other person or persons To employ
any one other than n regular appoint
ed and qualified public weigher, or
his deputy, TO weigh any cotton,
wool. sugar. or hides required to be