VERNON'S TEXAS 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.