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[Historic Marker Application: Pitt House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Pitt House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Pitt House, in Brownsville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: October 5, 2012
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: McNair House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: McNair House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the McNair House, in Brownsville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: December 3, 2008
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Hicks-Gregg House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Hicks-Gregg House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Hicks-Gregg House, in Brownsville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: December 1, 2008
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Hicks-Lawrence House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Hicks-Lawrence House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Hicks-Lawrence House, in Brownsville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: October 8, 2008
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Rabb Plantation] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Rabb Plantation]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Rabb Plantation, in Brownsville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date: January 23, 2013
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents Meeting: March 14, 1993] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents Meeting: March 14, 1993]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Council of Chapter Presidents, held on Sunday, March 14, 1993, in Brownsville, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by Council Chairman, C. R. Harrington, from the Liberty Chapter, Brownsville.
Date: March 1993
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 12, 1993] (open access)

[Minutes for the TXSSAR Board of Managers Meeting: March 12, 1993]

Minutes from a meeting of the TXSSAR Board of Managers, held on March 12, 1993 in Brownsville, Texas, including a summary of activities and business discussed. The meeting was called to order by President David Yeilding.
Date: March 1993
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maximum daily temperatures for the last half of July, 1913 (open access)

Maximum daily temperatures for the last half of July, 1913

Compares the temperatures for July 16-31, 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska, Topeka, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, and Brownsville, Texas as taken from the Government Climatological Summary.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1204 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1204

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether an uncompensated commissioner of a county housing authority may receive mileage credits attributable to authority travel (RQ-1979)
Date: August 8, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-235 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-235

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a delinquent tax penalty adopted by the Cameron County Commissioners Court under section 33.07 of the Tax Code applies to delinquent taxes subject to installment agreements entered into under section 33.02 of the Tax Code prior to July 1 of the year which taxes became delinquent (RQ-528)
Date: July 12, 1993
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0578 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0578

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a vacancy exists in the newly-created 444th and 445th Judicial Districts, and if so, whether those positions are required to be funded.
Date: October 31, 2007
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1137 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1137

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Effective date of the 1950 Federal census of Cameron County.
Date: 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1145 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1145

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Compensation of county officers in Cameron County.
Date: January 22, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1200 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1200

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County Auditor of Cameron County is required to audit and issue reports on improvement district finances, and related questions.
Date: November 29, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1253 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1253

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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether under the alleged facts a Justice of the Peace for Cameron County "announced his candidacy" within the meaning of Section 65 of Article XVI of the Texas Constitution and related questions.
Date: February 2, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-50 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-50

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Commission of Tax Assessor Collector of Cameron County for assessing State Taxes.
Date: February 8, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-29 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-29

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Apportionment appropriation, availability of for Cameron and Willacy Counties under Acts 1945, 49th Leg., R.S., Judiciary-Appropriation, Sec. 11, p. 957, Article 3912e, Section 13 (b) and Section 15 (a), V.A.C.S., for January, 1947, to August 31, 1947, inclusive.
Date: January 27, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-463 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-463

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The inspection tax liability of shrimp imported to Brownsville from a Mexican port on a boat temporarily registered under the Panamanian Flag but actually having Brownsville as its home port.
Date: December 23, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-983 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-983

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The source of the fees due the Tax Assessor-Collector of Cameron County for assessing State ad valorem taxes, since the entire tax is now remitted to Cameron County.
Date: January 18, 1950
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Two Messages to Governor Antonio Cordero y Bustamante] (open access)

[Two Messages to Governor Antonio Cordero y Bustamante]

Two Messages from Miguel Sánchez Navarro Palau to Governor Antonio Cordero y Bustamante concerning the process of two men guilty of robbing the parish priest of Laredo. The first document contains a list of questions, and is signed in various places by local authorities; the second document from Palau is signed by Cordero and dated January 31, 1812.
Date: 1812-01~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Correspondence between Miguel Sánchez Navarro Palau and José Lazano Benavidez] (open access)

[Correspondence between Miguel Sánchez Navarro Palau and José Lazano Benavidez]

Correspondence between Miguel Sánchez Navarro Palau and José Lazano Benavidez. Palau says that two thieves guilty of robbery are being sent back to Laredo; Benavidez replies back, in July, with a message that the thieves have been received in the town.
Date: {1812-02~,1812-07~}
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - October 31, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - October 31, 1943]

An itinerary for T. N. Carswell, CAS for work in District 15-B performed from October 1-31, 1943.
Date: October 31, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Rosa Lea Fullwood Meek Dickerson, February 27, 2000 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Rosa Lea Fullwood Meek Dickerson, February 27, 2000

Interview with Rosa Lea Fullwood Meek Dickerson, former pilot from Kerrville, Texas. Mrs. Dickerson describes her early interest in airplanes and tells stories from her days with the WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), flying different types of aircraft to bases all over the United States. She includes the history of WASP, its formation, and dissolution. Her flying stories detail plane crashes and near-death experiences, including the sabotage of planes at the airport in Enid, OK by a German National. Mrs. Dickerson also talks about running a flying service in the Kerrville airport with her husband, Carl Meek, during the early days of aviation after WWII.
Date: February 27, 2000
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Dickerson, Rosa Lea Fullwood Meek
System: The Portal to Texas History