4 BULLETIN 520, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
given to the depositor, in addition to the receipt, as his private memo- 
randum. Often it is not possible to weigh or grade the cotton imme- 
diately upon its arrival at the warehouse, and the owner may be 
unwilling to wait for his receipt until this is done. In this event the 
certificate may be issued subsequently, and the original attached to 
the receipt. The carbon copy of the certificate is to be used only as a 
record of the warehouse, and is for the information of the officer writ- 
ing the receipt, who after noting upon it, in the place provided for that 
purpose, the numbers of the receipts which cover the cotton listed 
upon it, files it away, in numerical order. 
A convenient size for the certificate is 7 by 9| inches with |-inch 
ruling. 
THE WAREHOUSE RECEIPT. 
Many forms of receipts are in use in cotton warehouses, and no 
attempt is made to give forms here that would conform to the ideas 
of all warehousemen. The receipts shown embody all of the require- 
ments of the United States warehouse Act, which is especially de- 
signed to increase the value of the warehouse receipt as collateral, 
with the exception of the statement that the receipt is issued subject 
to the United States warehouse Act and other special terms or con- 
ditions which might be required by the Secretary of Agriculture for 
the purposes of that act, which would of course be required only on 
receipts issued by warehouses licensed thereunder. The terms and 
conditions of receipts required by the Uniform Warehouse Receipts 
Act, which has been adopted by 32 States, Alaska, the District of 
Columbia, and the Philippine Islands, are substantially the same 
as those of the United States warehouse Act, except that the latter 
adds somewhat to the requirements embodied in the former. 
The following data are required in the issuance of warehouse receipts, 
under the United States warehouse Act and must be embodied within 
the written or printed terms of such receipts, as set out in section 18 
of the act : 
(a) The location of the warehouse in which the agricultural products are stored, 
(6) The date of issue of the receipt. 
(c) The consecutive number of the receipt. 
(d) A statement whether the agricultural products received will be delivered to 
the bearer, to a specified person, or to a specified person or his order. 
(e) The rate of storage charges. 
(/) A description of the agricultural products received, showing the quantity 
thereof, or, in case of agricultural products customarily put up in bales or packages, 
a description of such bales or packages by marks, numbers, or other means of iden- 
tification, and the weight of such bales or packages. 
(g) The grade or other class of the agricultural products received and the stand- 
ard or description in accordance with which such classification has been made: Pro- 
vided, That such grade or other class shall be stated according to the official standard 
of the United States applicable to such agricultural products as the same may be 
fixed and promulgated under authority of law. 
