CHAPTER 11. COTTON
VERNON'S CIVIL STATUTES
TITLE 4. AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
CHAPTER 11. COTTON
Art. 165-4. COTTON RESEARCH AWARD FUND.
Sec. 1. By this Act it is expressly declared to be a State policy
that the encouragement and stimulation of new uses for cotton
shall be a matter of State-wide importance and concern and that
the various agencies of the State Government, and more
particularly the various State agricultural departments,
agencies, schools, colleges, etc., are hereby directed to take
full and sufficient notice and consideration of the policy herein
established and set forth, and the activities of all agencies of
the State Government, and more particularly those especially
mentioned above are hereby directed to be revamped and
reorganized so as to conform with the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 2. The Governor of this State is hereby directed as the
Chief Executive and Administrative Officer of this State to use
his efforts to carry out the policy set forth above.
Sec. 3. In order to assist in carrying out the policy set forth
in this Act, there is hereby created the "Cotton Research Award
Fund", and there is hereby appropriated to this fund out of any
money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of
Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars. The President of the
University of Texas, the President of the A. & M. College,
and the President of Texas Technological College are hereby
designated as a Board of Trustees of said fund. Said Board of
Trustees are hereby appointed and empowered to dispense said fund
in keeping with rules and regulations which a majority of said
Board may adopt, provided that the same are not in conflict with
the provisions of this Act. Said rules and regulations shall be
drawn up and published within ninety days from the effective date
of this Act, and among other things, they shall provide for:
(a) An award of not less than Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars,
nor more than Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars to any resident
Texas citizen, who, by chemical research or other invention or
device, discovers any process or method which hereafter brings
about an increase in the consumption of cotton annually in an
amount equal to or greater than three hundred thousand (300,000)
bales of five hundred (500) pounds net weight;
(b) The persons mentioned above are to be the sole judges as to
whether the required increase in consumption of cotton above
mentioned has actually taken place, and the Comptroller of Public
Accounts is hereby authorized to pay warrants drawn on the
"Cotton Research Award Fund" when said warrants are signed by a
majority of the three persons above mentioned.
Acts 1939, 46th Leg., p. 1.