The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-09
GRADING OF COTTON.

The Georgia and Alabama
Legislatures meet in July, and
by request senator McLaurin
has prepared State warehouse
bills for introduction. Senator
J. O. Adams, of Georgia, will
lead the fight, and Senator Nc
Laurin has agreed to go before
The committee to whom the bill
is referred. Accompanying
these bills is one to regulate the
grading of cotton, which was
drafted to introduce in the South
Carolina legislature last winter.
Congressman William H. Lur-
ray, of Oklahoma, has al 0 re-
quested copies of these bills,
and they will be presented to
the legislature of that State
when it next assemblies. There
can be no doubt that there is a
systematic AND determined effort
on foot all over the South to
conserve the waste from the
farm to the mill.
Senator McLaurin said that
''we have a law of weights and
measures, which IS applied to
every product except cotton. A
man is severely punished who
shortens the yardstick or less.
ems the bushel or pound. Why
not cotton? The United
States has established grades
for cotton, but to be effective in
law, there must be State legis-
lation formally adopting the
standard and fixing a penalty
for the violation thereof. We
have legal weighers. why not
legal graders. ;"
The bill to regulate the grad
ing of cotton is as follows:
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE
GRADING OF COTTON.
Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of South
Carolina.
Section 1. That from and, af-
tier the passage of this Act,
baled cotton offered for sale in
South Carolina shall be graded
and classified according to the
standard grade fixed by the Uni
ted States Agricultural Depart;
ment.
Section .. That any person
grading baled cotton offered for
sale shall obtain a license from
the State Warehouse Commis.
lsioner, who shall issue a COM
mission to such person to grade
cotton IN the State Of South
Carolina, only after an examina-
ton, which shall satisfy him of
the competency of the applicant
to properly classify and grade
cotton according to the United
States standard grades.
Section 8. Any person grad
| ing baled cotton offered for sale,
without a license as herein set
forth, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor and subject to a fine Of
not more than one hundred dol
lars or Imprisonment for not
more than thirty days for each
bale of cotton graded by him
without a license as herein set
forth.
Section 4. Whenever satisfac
tory proof is made to the State
Warehouse Commissioner that
any person to whom license
has been granted under this Act
does not.grade cotton properly
according to tie United States
standard grades, it shall be the
duty Of the State Warehouse
Commissioner to revoke the
license Of such person.
Section 5. Any person, who
shall wilfully misgrade a. bale
Iof cotton offered, for sale IN
South Carolina shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, each bale
constituting a seperate and dis
tinct ofense, punishable by a
fine of not more than 500 or
imprisonment for not more than
thirty days. A variation Of
twenty-five points from the
United States standard grade
shall constitute prima facie evi-
dence of wilful intent on the
part Of the person grading the
cotton offered for sale.
Section g.. A fee of five COL
lars for each license issued by
the State Warehouse Commis
eioner shall be collected for
same.
Section Z. That all Acts in
consistant with this Act be, and
the same are hereby, repealed.
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