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PUBLIC LAW 740-AUG. 31, 1954

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SUBCHAPTER III—MISCELLANEOUS

101. Defective, depen(lent, and delinquent classes; crime. 102. Religion. 103. Designation of reports.

SUBCHAPTER I—COTTON § 41. Collection and publication The Secretary shall collect and publish statistics concerning the— (1) amount of cotton ginned; (2) quantity of raw cotton consumed in manufacturing establishments of every character; (3) quantity of baled cotton on hand; (4) number of active consuming cotton spindles; (5) number of active spindle hours; and (6) quantity of cotton imported and exported, with the country of origin and destination. § 42. Contents of reports; number of bales of linter; distribution; publication by Department of Agriculture (a) The statistics.of the quantity of cotton ginned shall show the quantity ginned from each crop prior to August 1, August 16, September 1, September 16, October 1, October 18, November 1, November 14, December 1, December 13, January 16, and March 1; but the Secretary may limit the canvasses of August 1 and August 16 to those sections of the cotton-growing States in which cotton has been ginned. (b) The quantity of cotton consumed in manufacturing establishments, the quantity of baled cotton on hand, the number of active consuming cotton spindles, the number of active spindle-hours, and the statistics of cotton imported and exported shall relate to each month, and shall be published as soon as possible after the close of the month, (c) In collecting and publishing statistics of cotton on hand in warehouses and other storage establishments, and of cotton known as the "carry-over" in the United States, the Secretary shall ascertain and publish as a separate item in the report of cotton statistics the number of bales of linters as distinguished from the number of bales of cotton. (d) The Secretary shall furnish to the Department of Agriculture, immediately prior to the publication of each report of that Department regarding the cotton crop, the latest available statistics hereinbefore mentioned, and the Department of Agriculture shall publish the same in connection with each of its reports concerning cotton. § 43. Records and reports of cotton ginners Every cotton ginner shall keep a record of the county or parish in which each bale of cotton ginned by him is grown and report at the March canvass of each year a segregation of the total number of bales ginned by counties or parishes in which grown. § 44. Foreign cotton statistics In addition to the information regarding cotton in the United States provided for in this subchapter, the Secretary shall compile, by correspondence or the use of published reports and documents, any available information concerning the production, consumption, and stocks of cotton in foreign countries, and the number of cotton-consuming spindles in such countries. Each report published by the Department of Commerce or agency or bureau thereof regarding cotton shall contain an abstract of the latest available information obtained under the provisions of this section, and the Secretary shall

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