Volume 52
Public Law 75–358
Amending the Act authorizing the collection and publication of cotton statistics by requiring a record to be kept of bales ginned by counties.
Approved June 14, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
Amending the Act authorizing the collection and publication of cotton statistics by requiring a record to be kept of bales ginned by counties.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That an Act authorizing the Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics of cotton, approved April 2, 1924, be amended by adding at the end of section 4 thereof the following:
Ginners, record of county in which cotton grown required; report.
“It shall also be the duty of every cotton ginner to keep a record of the county or parish in which each bale of cotton ginned by him is grown and to report at the March canvass of each year a segregation of the total number of bales ginned by counties or parishes in which grown.”
Approved, June 14, 1938.