Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-52 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-52

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether, in view of the prohibitions, restrictions are reverters in H.B. 6, Chapter 68, 36th Leg.; H.B. 164, Chapter 40, 47th Leg.; and H.B. 492, Chapter 253, 49th Leg., the Glasscock Fill Area, located in Corpus Christi Bay, has reverted to the State and related questions.
Date: April 4, 1963
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroyer. (open access)

Insect-Destroyer.

Patent for dislodging, collecting, and destroying bugs and weevils by shaking pests from cotton bushes and crushing them.
Date: July 4, 1916
Creator: Brooks, John Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Resilient Wheel. (open access)

Resilient Wheel.

Patent for a resilient wheel, which absorbs shocks.
Date: October 4, 1910
Creator: Pierson, Marion Bunion
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fastening for Blind Slats. (open access)

Fastening for Blind Slats.

Patent for a new and improved fastening for blind slats. This design "consists in a device for use with a blind to clamp the slat-rod, and thereby retain the slats more or less open or closed" (lines 7-9).
Date: August 4, 1885
Creator: Evans, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pistol Game Apparatus. (open access)

Pistol Game Apparatus.

Patent for a new and improved pistol game. This design "consists of a pistol device of novel construction, in combination with a horizontal revolving table having stalls for reception of a ball, the said pistol device being to drop the ball into the table while revolving for playing a game in which the score of the game is to be counted by the number of the stall into which the ball chances to fall" (lines 8-15).
Date: March 4, 1884
Creator: Mestier, John Reni
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Stalk Cutter (open access)

Cotton-Stalk Cutter

Patent for a more efficient and simple cotton stalk chopper with the ability for the chopping drum to be moved up and down in the on and off positions.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Thomsen, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History