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'Hon.John Lcohy, Director
Cotton Researc!iComaittee
g _I. College .S’tation, Texas .
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r recent camflunica~tion
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this dtgartmenl;
reads as P
ts of the Regular
ive authority to
c-allocate or
lc aivi3.ons of its
Senate Bill No. 403,vrhere
sfers is made necessary
till0
sums ~Ofqlley ~appro-
pplemcnt to your original request, "
eta11 the reaoons,therefor,is a later
you, containing thenf6lloxing pert~inent
of the total ag&oprikion, 53.B. No. 403,
re, in the amount oP.~$250,000the Cotton
Co~M.ttec has,spcnt or cogmittxd $21&;90&.2l+
lepoing$5,095.76 to thu State Tretisurer..
At this instant viehave @,,597.15 in COmud.t-
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me~nts.agafnstr.~echinery~
purcl~asesto liquidate which _ '1.
are now more than sixty d.ayspast due.
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."3. Tho r.opresentation,with vrhioh~
the Cotton
Resesrch CoLzitteo imnninouvly dlsnCJaas, the-tthe
cppropriationsmade by Zenate Bill 130.403 are
spccif‘loand.lipitedin their application in keeping
with paragraph three of section Gwo of the Act, opor-
.;. atos to onrorcc thi-lapsinf~of $4,597.15 in ad&l.tlon
$ .i to tho &5,095.76 already Ispscd. The total of lapsed
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.;. approprletionwuld then
funds frownthe $%;lsO,OOO
'$9,692.91..
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'.T. wl+..Unckr suoh operation the Cotton Rosearch
>. -,_ Con&ttee would, in its practical affect, be over-
& : .spending its specific appropriationsby $4,597,'5
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an&erspcndingits total appro-
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i :.: “5. 1% are presently.com&eting ourbudgetreaort for
.. the State Dosrd of Control and ore required to detail
our outstandingcotitnonts or undelivered orders; .*
.. “6 * Thenoompletion and'.filingor our budget
report and StatemCntS1.9 h3poadCJltUPC+FOUr@QiGe’s
in respect to the foregolng'and.themore formal state-
~ment of.our situation ,BSoutlined in our,ori&al
.' ~co~~~~utiioation
of August 15~." ..
Se,ctj.on2 of S. 13. 403,, Chop. 474, 47th Legl.ssLa%ure,.L
reads, in part, as follows:
“Sec. 2. The sui of ~TwofiUIId?GdFifty Thousand '.
($250,000.00)Dollars is hereby appropriated . . . .,
.forthe periods of time shown below, and for the
purposes of establishj.ng cotton research facilitiok .
in.Texas, . . ; . The susx3oftmoney apprcipriatca
herein shall be allocated snd spent under the direc-
tion of a Cotton Roseoroh Co~znLttee,. . ; ,, and in
sp~oPfic,furtharancsof the lDeclurationof Policy1
sot forth in this Act, subjnct only to such llnltatjona
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as JLlGV
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cofitemplatcdthat the Cotton Research
Committee shall &n~so-a careful survey to be mode
of the mOJ>terfcotivc vinyto spend the sums of money i
approprietedherein, in order that the p%i@oscs OZ
this act may be fully accomplished. . . Tho appro-
priations ilerein authorized shall be wcndcd
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: Ending Ending
Aug. 31,1942 Aug. 31, 1943
Purchase of laboratory'
equipment, and the
housing and maintenance I
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or SmJlQ..................~~ioo;ooo.oo &50,000.00
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Saiaries, none to exc*d ,' -.
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not more than .tr~o to . ..
exaeod $5;000. per annum,; 40,OOO.OO .4o,ooo.Od1 .'
Misc*llaneo~usSupplies; ' 'z
Expanses and.Equipment,
as the Cotton Research
$JogA;tee may,‘drlrect..~..i,, lO;OOO.OO~
nkny~unexpendedbalance
~. of the above funds not
used during the year ending August 31, 1942, k herebE
a vro riated fox oorresnonding~usein the,following year."
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Fran the foregoing, the.follo#ingoonclusions,erein-
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The 47th Legislature appropriated to the Cotton Researoh
'Co,mmitteefor the "Purchase of laboratory equipment, and the hous-
ing and maintenono,eof ssm&, for the,yesr ending Auft,uot 31, 1942,'
'the sum of $lOO,QOO.OO. For the sane purposes,'ssidLogisloture
oppropristed $50,000.00,for the year ondi.ngAugust 31, J.943. Any
uaorpend.edbalance of the $100,0X~.OO ite:~not used during .the
year ending August 31,194.2,was .&so approyrioted for $-orrespon&
fnt:-gx (the purchase of J.cboretor:y and ,the
e0u%unont, -- housin?----
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me;intcnanG?of
----._ Zis!llc~tlle,rolloivlngy>Z-(&e ycer -enol.ng~
August
31, 1943xcjt any-uuoxpendod balance e?:>,sted in said item of
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'ilo& John Lcahy, puce 4
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'~~O,OOO.OO,Illusony ihoroase theroih, if cay from the
~lOCJ,COC.GO
iifxtof S~,gXopXi~tion..lor
tha ~)~x?edJ.ngyear,
Erici nOid btllZnef3 ICSS IlUi i1SfjddLSi11,~ thC year CJl~iIl~ i.UgUSt
Sl,; 1%.53 , se.monutomatioelly'lapsud end mverkod to the
Qencral Fund of ttiaCtsto Treasuryo'
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' SelA Le&slsturn also a.;qmqrlatcd to said Cotton
Cow:ittee for eech -.fthe y~r.crs
:;3s;arcJz ot~dinfi
kw;ust 31,
rzodI'utust31, lC43, the.uus OF $dO,CcJO.COfor Yki\~tir:na;
noZ’l.0 orce&l 1-6,SGQ.OG twr f~~nnw~clZ;d nCt tltO%Q t.h::JltV0 t0
oxcscd ~S;GCO.CO p2r eonti,~ LJ.JcoGi.ecl,,
it:n?p-oprl3tod
$lO,CO@,OO for each of sold psers for ?~lscullenoousGu~~~pli-~s,
Zxpmsco aad F:quJ.Jmsnt, as the Cottan ~~as~:erch.Connitteo
70ay
direct.n It also a~~:.:rcpriatodany un3xpeaa k&mxe of said
fun55 mot uaed during tho yrer cadin Ru~ust.31, lD42,~lor
corrasrondin6nC6&
'i%%nce existed in either of s?id items of aJ?prop;:istion for
8sJ.dscrcond .yakr,,
plus any inCri:asetheroln, if.i\ny,from the
precedio~ yonr's .appropriationfor ccrruspondinguse, which .
ba1anco~v.wnot used &ring seid eecond year, such b:l.D~nce
autoasticuilylapced and raverted to CJieC;?ueralFund of our "
St&t6 ~XtXGWy.
Gnc provioion of Scxtic;n2 of.’
S. E. 403,:4~7thLogis-
loture, reguireo thi;su:~8of money t;huroinn:,proprIntOd~ to bo
al?.ocu
t4d &z-id undar tno.directionuf tho Cotton Iioeeerch
Come~tde. Tim wrc'i%lloc::tcP is defined in %ebsterVs ;:ev:
1nternet:caalMct~onwy, tiocondkdlticn, es follov:s: "To
distribute or oseic-n;cllot; o;Jportion;"-
olco "To determine
the 1ocal:ty of." It is riotsp~ncny~ous viithfVtranefor.nThlu
lost v+-rbis defined by the same auttloritythusly: "To ccnvey
~frm one piece, p~raon, or thlnC, to czther,; to LtsneJ~ort,~
~ramove,or cnuse~to.~~ae;to another pleco, per-eon,or tiiJ.n~.*~
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.~ iion.. sohn ~liatly, ~0~0 5
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.,.-to our currant cppropriatlon (csntsinccl in 9. C.. 333, ., ,
. Chep. 399j Acts of the &3tb'Is@3lnturw) oxprefd&3
AogitQativa~ intent and w.m wdo a ?crt of the appro-
* T printion Dill to mintain the dlocrixinating author- '. ..
.' i.ity cf the Coalnitteo (Cot.tcn l?~cis~xrch Cors.nittee)
whic1 it cnjcyod un:?er Senate BiPl 170. 407~ iti.JW-
spect to the manmr of ntilizing the a>pro?riatsd
funds .'(
Tim rfder raferra&tc 0-M CoatkS.nad tr;the ciirrent
iapp+o&cikion to tlto~Cottbd lio~sozrchCox:ittee~ 6ppcarlnG~~od
pp.,876-B77,~Acta OS ,thc 48th Lag., re~do co~Eol.l~ws: . :
..' Tt ie providoh~tbst the Cottnri Rcssarob Com-
2 alttoe may make liC!CUSZEry tr~.flsEesSalaon~ tho appro-
: printions for the Co,ton l;eoearcliCow31tt&o a0 is ..
acco~sury CO properly cnrry on th.1,reseircti work
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