Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4806 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4806

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: Salary of county superintendent of Bowie County, Texas.
Date: March 3, 1942
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turnstile-Gate. (open access)

Turnstile-Gate.

Patent for a turnstile-gate meant "to provide a gate of novel construction to be used at the intersection of a number of fences that access may be had through the gate from one to the other of the inclosures formed by said fences" (lines 13-17). It is especially meant for stockyards when several fences come together in one place.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Cowley, Benjamin T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fence-Post. (open access)

Fence-Post.

Patent for a fence post with a base that expands when put in the ground to hold it firmly in place.
Date: November 3, 1908
Creator: Cherry, Fon T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Lumber-Trimmer. (open access)

Lumber-Trimmer.

Patent for an improved lumber-trimmer that has "a suitable carriage or number of carriages for conveying the lumber a series of swinging frames, which carry belted saws and also supporting-wheels, which wheels, if not tripped, will ride over the lumber, carrying the saws up with them out of an operative position, but which wheels, if tripped, will ride over the lumber, but permit the suspended saws to remain in operative position to trim the lumber at different points in its length, as may be desired" (lines 23-33).
Date: December 3, 1895
Creator: Coleman, Thomas A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History