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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7474 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7474

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the Commissioners' Court of Henderson County have the authority to employ an attorney to act as legal adviser for the Court and expend county funds to pay him a monthly fee or salary for said services?
Date: November 8, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Beets trial] captions transcript

[News Clip: Beets trial]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 8, 1985, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Athens extortion] (open access)

[News Script: Athens extortion]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a bank president Woodrow Walker in Athens, Texas paying extortionists $25,000 in ransom money before learning his wife was safe at a beauty salon.
Date: September 8, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Robert Lauderdale, cause no. 740a, 1871 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Robert Lauderdale, cause no. 740a, 1871

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. Robert Lauderdale, accused of theft of a cow, filed November 21, 1871. Documents include an answer and a scire facias.
Date: 1871-09-08/1873-03-18
Creator: Thompson, Jeff. E.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. William Petty, cause no. 761, 1874 (open access)

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. William Petty, cause no. 761, 1874

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. William Petty, accused of "illegally carrying a pistol," filed March 6, 1874. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman N. P. Coleman, alias capiases, a subpoena, requests for witnesses, and capiases.
Date: 1872-02-08/1875-06
Creator: Thompson, Jeff. E.; Bishop, J. B.; Richardson, M. E. & Eustace, W. T.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Henderson County

Map of Henderson County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 8, 1871
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Documents pertaining to the case of The State of Texas vs. George Pippin, cause no. 1889, 1885 (open access)

Documents pertaining to the case of The State of Texas vs. George Pippin, cause no. 1889, 1885

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. George Pippin, accused of assault with intent to murder, filed September 8, 1887. Documents include a bill of indictment signed by grand jury foreman J. H. Wofford, witness subpoenas and attachments, applications for attachments, an arrest warrant for George Pippin, attachment bonds, precepts, a motion, an application for witnesses and subpoenas, and a charge filed by the presiding judge J. A. Williams.
Date: 1887-02-08/1890-02-11
Creator: Deen, J. T.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Henderson County

Cadastral map of Henderson County, Texas in the Prairies and Lakes region. Notes were made in red ink. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: March 8, 1871
Creator: Lungkwitz, Herman
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Clip: Gun Barrel City and Mabank] captions transcript

[News Clip: Gun Barrel City and Mabank]

B-roll video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the small towns of Gun Barrel City and Mabank, Texas.
Date: January 8, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trace-Carrier. (open access)

Trace-Carrier.

Patent for "a simple, inexpensive, and efficient trace-carrier" (line 12) "capable of readily receiving and of securely holding the chain of a trace close to the back-band and of preventing the inner trace-chains form becoming hooked into each other when two horses are employed at a plow or the like" (lines 13-18).
Date: June 8, 1897
Creator: Brown, Lewis E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History