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New Mexico New Mexico Statutes, 1929, Section 81-205 — " Plaiting; bales . 
Each and every ginner and any officer, servant or employee 
of a corporation, person or gin company conducting the gin- 
ning business under the provisions of this act, or any other 
person, persons or corporation who shall fraudulently, wil- 
fully or knowingly 'plait' or pack a bale of cotton, which 
is to say, who shall wilfully and knowingly place on the out- 
side of said bale a better grade and quality of cotton than 
on the inside of said bale or who shall gin cotton when it is 
wet or who shall in the process of ginning said bale of cotton 
or thereafter add water or any foreign substance to said cotton 
shall be guilty of an offense hereunder." 
South 
Carolina. 
.Code of South Carolina, 1932, Section 1280 — " Fraudulent Pack - 
ing of Cotton . Any person or persons convicted of knowingly 
or wilfully packing into any bag or bale of cotton any stone, 
wood, trash, cotton, cottonseed, water, or any matter or thing 
whatsoever, or causing the same to be done, with the intent 
and purpose of cheating or defrauding any person or persons 
whomsoever in the sale of such cotton, or who shall exhibit 
or offer for sale any bag or bale of cotton so fraudulently 
packed, at the time of the said exhibit, or offer for sale 
knowing the same to be so fraudulently packed, shall on con- 
viction thereof, as aforesaid, be sentenced to pay a fine of 
not more than five hundred dollars nor less than twenty dol- 
lars and to be imprisoned for a term of not more than six months 
nor less than one month." 
Tennessee. 
Texas. 
.Code of Tennessee, 1932, Section 11147 — " Penalty for conceal - 
ing; iron, stone, etc . , in bales of cotton or packages of to-j 
bacco . If the owner or superintendent of cotton gin or tobaccc 
establishments of any kind shall place any wood, iron, rock 
dirt, or other substance, into any bale of cotton, hogshead 
package of tobacco, when packed or baled, for the purpose 
adding to the weight thereof, or shall cause the same to be 
by others, such person so offending shall be deemed guilty 
felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall suffer impris 
in the penitentiary for a period not less than two nor 
five years, and shall also pay a fine of five hundred 
.Complete Texas Statutes, 1928, Article 5672 — " Certi ; 
Guarantee . Whether or not a sample of the bale ofj 
ginned shall be requested and taken by the ginner, 
shall, nevertheless, place with each bale of cottoi 
him a certificate of guarantee under his bond thatj 
process of ginning or thereafter, while the cottc 
possession of the ginner, no water or foreign subs 
nature had been placed with such cotton, with intenj 
Such certificate shall bear the name and address 
for whom the cotton was ginned, the number of tl 
books of the ginner, and the weight of the bal< 
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