Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-310 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-310

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether property of the Housing Authority of the City of Harlingen would be subject to ad valorem taxes in view of the fact that a small portion of said property will be let to concessionaires who would operate the facilities to serve the residents.
Date: December 5, 1968
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of La Feria Flood Protection Plan (open access)

City of La Feria Flood Protection Plan

The purpose of this report was to develop a comprehensive set of models for the City's main drainage-way system, to be utilized in developing flood protection alternatives, both structural and non-structural.
Date: July 5, 2011
Creator: Espey Consultants, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knife-Sharpener. (open access)

Knife-Sharpener.

Patent for improvements in knife-sharpeners that can be clamped onto a table or similar object, including an illustration. The device has also been "adapted for use in connection with a pair of bits or cutters having convex cutting edges disposed in confronting relation, the bits or cutters being capable of adjustment to present new portions of the respective cutting edges for effective work as the occasion requires" (lines 17-23).
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Kirlin, Wiliam B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water-Elevator. (open access)

Water-Elevator.

Patent for a water elevator that is composed of a band with buckets attached that goes around the structure in a circle delivering water.
Date: September 5, 1911
Creator: Thompson, James W. & Hathaway, James F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History