Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-258 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-258

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: Can the Commissioners' Court require the Central Texas Cattlemen's Association to render and pay taxes on stock which are located in Coryell County on the Fort Hood Reservation?
Date: September 13, 1957
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Kiln (open access)

Kiln

Patent for improvements to kilns, which include improvements for transferring heat, "burning lime and clay products"(line 11), powdered fuel feeding and preventing unheated air from flowing into the kiln.
Date: May 13, 1919
Creator: Bone, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Holder (open access)

Sash-Holder

Patent for "new and useful Improvements in Sash-Holders," an invention which "aims to provide a sash-holder of simple construction for supporting a sash at any elevation and which will secure it when closed against being opened from the outside."
Date: November 13, 1900
Creator: Hardy, Isham B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hame Hook. (open access)

Hame Hook.

Patent for a new and improved hame hook. This design "consists of a hook composed of two members hinged together and adapted to be clamped upon a hame-staple, one of the said members being provided with a pin adapted to project into an opening in the opposite member" (lines 14-19).
Date: January 13, 1891
Creator: Dankworth, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harness Attachment. (open access)

Harness Attachment.

Patent for a new and improved harness attachment. This design "compris[es] the pad having apertured ends, the buckle-frame, the loop therefrom having a beveled end provided with a lug or projection, the securing-plate having apertured ends, and the trace or tug" (lines 70-75).
Date: September 13, 1887
Creator: Du Bose, Wade Hampton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History