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• Sale of Cotton 
• 1 Short title
• PART I Preliminary
  • 2 Interpretation
• PART II Inspectors of Cotton
  • 3 Appointment of Inspectors
  • 4 Return of land planted in cotton to be made to Inspector
  • 5 Inspector to visit land mentioned in return
• PART III Sale of cotton
  • 6 Selling or conveying cotton without a certificate
  • 7 Applications for certificates
  • 8 Penalty on applicant who fails to satisfy the Inspector
• PART IV Purchase of cotton
  • 9 Purchaser of cotton to be licensed
  • 10 Licences to purchase cotton
  • 11 Additional licences
  • 12 Licensed purchaser to exhibit signboard on conspicuous part of premises
  • 13 Selling or bartering to unlicensed persons
  • 14 Purchasing without licence
  • 15 Purchasing or bartering from person not having a certificate
  • 16 Purchaser of cotton to keep record
  • 17 Particulars to be entered in Purchaser’s Record
  • 18 Vendor’s certificate to be kept by purchaser
  • 19 Failure to comply with sections 16 , 17 and 18
  • 20 Inspection of Purchaser’s Record
• PART V Cotton factories
  • 21 Receiving cotton at a factory without a certificate
  • 22 Factory to keep record
  • 23 Particulars to be entered in Factory Record
  • 24 Certificates to be kept at factory
  • 25 Failure to comply with sections 22 , 23 and 24
  • 26 Inspection of Factory Record
• PART VI Shipping lint and seed cotton
  • 27 Shipper to deliver to Comptroller of Customs a declaration from factory or certificate
  • 28 Failure to comply with section 27
  • 29 Penalty for false declaration
• PART VII Stolen cotton
  • 30 Offering for sale or barter cotton suspected to have been stolen
  • 31 Stolen property to be restored to its owner
• PART VIII Legal proceedings
  • 32 Application of penalties
  • 33 Forfeited articles
  • 34 All informations to be laid within twelve months
  • 35 Discharge and acquittal of informer
  • 36 Rewards when fines not paid
  • 37 No costs on complainant