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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Limitations on political activities of employees of the Texas Employment Commission.

A technique was developed for the rapid and accurate determination of current efficiency for lithium dissolution through the measurement of the steady-state, nonequilibrium hydrogen gas evolution rate from closed lithium--water cells. A technique for preparing alloys of lithium through arc melting was developed. The results of the polarization studies on the first set of samples show no marked effect of Ca or Al dopants on film conductivity. A lithium--bromine analog of the lithium--water battery was discovered; the Li electrode showed an open-circuit potential of -2.85 V and a limiting current density of about 6000 A/m/sup 2/, and there was no gas evolution from cathode or anode. A technique of lithium production which may offer efficiency and production cost advantages over present-day high-temperature fused salt electrolysis techniques is being evaluated. 2 figures, 1 table. (RWR)

The hose instability is examined numerically for an unmodulated beam with the Bennett current profile J(r) ..cap alpha.. (1 + r/sup 2//a/sup 2/)/sup -2/. Channel conductivity sigma(r) is also of this form. The dispersion relation of Lee shows excellent agreement with numerical results. Transient behavior of beam is studied and found consistent with Lee's work.

This report briefly summarizes many of the provisions of the election laws of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, relating to voter qualifications, registration, and absence voting.