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An Audit Report on Financial Transactions Associated with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita at the Lamar Higher Education Institutions and the Texas State University System (open access)

An Audit Report on Financial Transactions Associated with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita at the Lamar Higher Education Institutions and the Texas State University System

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining how the Lamar higher education institutions calculated and supported expenditure and revenue losses attributable to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, and how the Texas State University System approved and allocated emergency funds.
Date: April 2009
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Reconnaissance of Aransas Pass, Texas

This map is a nautical chart showing the hydrography of the area in Texas around the Aransas Pass. The physical features are outlined and shaded in color (relief shown by soundings and contours). Depths are marked with lines and numbers in feet. Text in the upper left corner is labeled "Sailing Directions" and "Note"; the text gives explanatory details regarding the markings and measurements on the map. Scale 1:20,000.
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Bracht House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Bracht House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Bracht House, in Rockport, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, maps, and photographs.
Date: March 16, 2011
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Rockport Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Rockport, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, shorelines, boundaries, oil wells, artesian wells/aquifers, windmills, pipelines, piers, lighthouses, shipwrecked sites, and landmarks. Includes red overprint of road classifications and a quadrangle location diagram. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1954
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Woodsboro Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Woodsboro, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, boundaries, railroads, pipelines, oil wells, windmills, airports, and landmarks. Includes red overprint of road classifications and a quadrangle location diagram. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Aranasa Co.

Blue line print of survey map of Aransas County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:163,099] (4000 varas to 13/16 of an inch).
Date: 1896
Creator: Schutze, E.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Sorenson-Stair Building] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Sorenson-Stair Building]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Sorenson-Stair Building, in Rockport, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: July 1, 2008
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Baldwin-Brundrett House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Baldwin-Brundrett House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Baldwin-Brundett House, in Rockport, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, maps, and photographs.
Date: July 23, 2012
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways. (open access)

Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways.

Patent for an improved apparatus for scouring water-ways by using water-discharge pipes and air-discharge pipes arranged at each side of the vessel. When “vessel is slowly moved forward while the water and air forcing pumps are working,..... direct force of the water-jets and air-jets will agitate and scatter and lift the dislodged particles and float them much higher and longer than would be the case were the water-jet pipes alone used.” (Lines 63-75) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Holden, Elbridge G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Plow (open access)

Rotary Plow

Patent for "rotary plows for plowing land, preparing the land to receive the seed and cultivating the plants, which shall be convenient in use, effective in operation, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 19-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Tally, Thomas Jackson.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 748, Chapter 392 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 748, Chapter 392

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the dissolution of the Aransas County Conservation and Reclamation District.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1953, Chapter 436 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1953, Chapter 436

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the name, commissioners, and powers of the Aransas County Navigation District No. 1.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-006 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-006

Letter opinion 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 and if so ,under what procedures,the Aransas County Navigation District No1 may be dissolved(ID# 33955).
Date: January 19, 1996
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Coast chart no. 109 : Aransas Pass Aransas and Copano Bay, Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century coastal detail along Aransas Pass and Copano Bay, Texas. Includes "List of Authorities", and information on light houses, buoys, tides, and soundings. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:80,000].
Date: 1884
Creator: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0905 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0905

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: Authority of the Aransas County Navigation District to develop, maintain, and finance Rockport Beach Park. (RQ-0986-GA)
Date: January 12, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1227 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1227

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: Authority of the commissioners' court to fill by appointment a vacancy on the governing board of Aransas County Navigation District No. 1.
Date: August 2, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-384 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-384

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: Does Article 978j, Vernon's Penal Code, repeal the effect of Article 952 1-10, Vernon's Penal Code as to the waters of Copano Bay, Mission Bay and connecting waters west of State Highway No. 35 in Aransas County.
Date: March 5, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-832 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-832

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 Aransas County Tax Collector may issue "voting" poll tax receipts to certain residents of Aransas County under the facts stated.
Date: May 2, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-346 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-346

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: Authority of Game, Fish and Oyster Commission to pay for laying a sewerage line from their Marine Laboratory to a connection with the existing sewerage line of the City of Rockport, Texas, and a related question.
Date: August 15, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Aransas County, Block 7

Parent map for Aransas County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Aransas County, Inset C01

Inset map for Aransas County, Texas showing detail within a census block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:2,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: San Patricio County, Block 17

Parent map for San Patricio County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Nueces County, Block 10

Parent map for Nueces County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:10,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Aransas County, Block 9

Parent map for Aransas County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:17,500.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History