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Railroad Cmssion of Texas, page 4
If , and in the event your answer to one
or more of the above questions is in the affixa-
tive, then please submit to us a formal ceaplaint
or indictment charging said person with a viola-
tion of Article 911A, Vernon9as Annotated Civil
Statutes, which said indictment or complaint would
in your opinion, vithstand a le*al test before the
courts of this state.
"In addition to the ativities of the Gophart
employment Agency, the is also located at San
Antonio, tsTes, a abor ageacy owned and operated
by &. P. Aosts and operated under the trade name
of Asos ta ybor AgenrT. This particular agency is
likewise engaged in the business of solioiting
and prouring immigrant laborers, mostly Mexican,
for the s ugar fields looted in the previously
mentioned states.
"The plan of operate of the Aeosts labor
Agency is somewhat different froe that of the ep-
hart hploym at Aesney.
"The Acosta Labor mAgey has some 300 agents
employed in different counties within the State of
Texas who are engaged in the business of solicit-
ing and procuring immigraerfor t lboers for he sugar
beet companies located In the above named states.
These agents do not resolve a speclfSed salary for
their services but are paid on the basis of the
number of laborers which they procure and deliver--
the per capital rate being $1.00 per head, $2.00
per head, or $2.50 per head, depending on the dis-
tance from the point of procurement to San Antonio.
Unlike the Gephat bEployment Agency, the proeure-
ment agents for Acosta, at the several points of
prooureaent, inform persons prooured by them at
points of prourement just what their destination
is to be; and these laborers knov here they are
going before they ever leave heae.
hrn a particular agent coatacts and procures
a given number of laborers in any one locality, he
will transport aid laborers in his own ear to San
Antonio, Texas; and, for such services, he vill re-
aoive $1.00, $2.00, or $2.50, dopending upon the dirs-
tance actually traveled to san Antonio; and he will
ake only one trp.
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4540, text, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth261789/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.