The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-02
MARKING OF COTTON.
Owners of Cotton Congresses Not
Required to Place Any Letters
or Figures on Bales.

Austin, Texas, August Assist
ant Attorney General Walter c
Woodward yesterday rendered the
following opinion to Commissioner
Ed r. Kone of the department of in
surance and banking regarding the
marking of cotton handled by com
press companies
This department is in receipt of
| letter from e, Fain, president OF the
| Ennis Compress company, in which
he asks for a ruling as to whether or
not a compress would be required to
mark the additional tare on each
| bale of cotton, said additional tare
| being the weight of patches placed
on bale OF cotton by the compress.
| We referred this letter to your de-
partment and you now request that
we give you a written opinion there
on. The letter from Mr.. Fain is as
| follows
Under the system of handling
cotton in Texas at the present time,
practically all cotton is patched,
that is, a piece of bagging is put
upon each side of the bale, usually
large enough to cover the entire side
of the bale, which covers up the gin
marks, and | write to ask If this
would make it necessary for the
compress to remark the bale. Under
stand the original mark put on at
the gin will still be on the bale, but
not visible by reason of the patch II
you hold that this makes it neces-
sary for the bale to be remarked
then | want to know if we will be eX-
pected to remark the tare the same
as placed there by the gin. The rea-
son for this latter question is that
when these patches are put on a
bale, which weigh themselves from
one to eight pounds per bale, the
tare then is increased just that much
per bale | would have you under
stand that these patches are placed
on the cotton at the instance of the
owner to cover holes which are
made by sampling and resampling.
BY Section l of an act of the thir-
ty-second legislature it is provided;
hul liit o"iiNIS D iNShNSTs opNAp
tors or receivers of all cotton gins in
this state shall stamp or write upon
each and every bale of cotton gin
ned by them, in plain figures, the
weight of the bagging and ties in
which the cotton is wrapped; said
figures to be written or stamped
with indelible ink and shall be not
less than four inches in height and
three inches in width, and shall be
preceded by the word 'tare' written
or stamped upon the bale in indeli-
BILE ink; the letters composing said
in height and three inches in
width
Section of said act reads as fol
lows:
THAT the owners, lessees, opera
tors or receivers of all cotton COM
presses in this state shall write or
stamp upon each and every bale OF
cotton compressed by them the word
and figures placed upon such bale or
bales of cotton by the ginner gin
ming the same, in compliance with
section ! of this act in the same
manner as provided for ginners in
said section /, should such word and
figures be defaced or hidden dur
ing the process of compression
You are advised that in my opin-
ion the owners, etc, of cotton com
presses are not required by this act
to place any letters or figures on a
bale of cotton other than the let
ters and figures placed thereon by
the ginner. 1t is not required by this
act that the owners of the compress
shall write or stamp upon each and
every bale of cotton compressed by
them any additional tare such as
the patches mentioned in the letter
above mentioned.