Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6832 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6832

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Is the A. & M. College required to pay taxes o its land to the Burleson County Improvement District No. 17?
Date: November 5, 1945
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for a new and improved animal-trap. This design consists in "the combination, with the frame, of the spear fitted to slide therein and provided with a notched shank, spring for forcing the spear down, and the trigger pivoted to the frame and provided with a forked plate at its lower end, and with a toe for engaging the notch of the shank of the spear" (lines 8-15).
Date: November 29, 1887
Creator: Wood, Evans
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History