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Life of Francis King Duncan (open access)

Life of Francis King Duncan

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Francis King Duncan, who was pronounced dead by three doctors when he cracked his skull open on an old wooden stove in a train collision; but while the undertaker was preparing him for burial, he awoke. He developed a bad case of boils, contracted tuberculosis twice, and caught yellow fever in Oregon. After his service in World War I, Frank Duncan settled in Marfa, Texas, with his wife and daughter.
Date: December 13, 1965
Creator: Bagley, Bob
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Historic Marker Application: Old English-Crist House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: Old English-Crist House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Old English-Crist House, in Pipe Creek, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, and photographs.
Date: December 20, 1967
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diedrick Dutchover and the Overland Mail Route (open access)

Diedrick Dutchover and the Overland Mail Route

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the first San Antonio-El Paso mail run, which required thirty days to cover 673 miles by stage coach and heavily armed frontiersmen of ward off attacks. Diedrick Dutchover was one of the men that accompanied the stage coaches on horseback to protect the mail carriers from threats.
Date: December 10, 1969
Creator: Arriola, Conrado
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dutch (open access)

Dutch

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Maynard W. "Dutch" Acton, who played a cowboy in the movie "Giant," starring Jimmy Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson. Dutch Acton spent most of his life working and living on ranches in West Texas.
Date: December 3, 1968
Creator: Harpham, Marsha
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Reserve Order A-26] (open access)

[Reserve Order A-26]

Reserve order designating several airmen to various duties, and announcing an examination of Paul A. Hill.
Date: December 7, 1963
Creator: United States. Air Force.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-166 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-166

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under Article 1970-110a 1, Vernon's Civil Statutes (Acts 60th Legislature, R. S., 1967, Ch. 712, p. 1835), whether the Congressional Certificate" now in use by the Harris County Probate Court No. 1 is valid since the instrument to which it is sometimes attached is signed in one capacity and the certificate is signed in another capacity.
Date: December 4, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-167 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-167

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the County Tax Assessor-Collector is required by Article 2549, Vernon's Civil Statutes, or other law, to deposit tax funds in his possession in the designated county depository pending transfer of the funds to the County Treasurer, and related questions.
Date: December 5, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-168 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-168

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The effect, if any, of Article 1064, Code of Criminal Procedure (H. B. No. 79, 60th Legislature, R. S.) on Attorney General's Opinion No. WW-820 (1960).
Date: December 12, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-169 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-169

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Parks and Wildlife Commission to regulate hunting on the land and water area of the Somerville Reservoir, and related questions.
Date: December 14, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-170 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-170

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the State Treasurer is required to pay a fee to county clerks for certified copies of court orders transmitted to him pursuant to Section 428, Teas Probate Code.
Date: December 18, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-171 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-171

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Cochran County Texas, has authority to pay public owned hospitals outside the county for hospital and medical services rendered to indigent inhabitants of the county under the circumstances stated.
Date: December 19, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-172 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-172

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a county commissioners court which desires to purchase equipment for general use by the county, requiring the expenditure of $2,000.00 or more to be paid out of current funds, must advertise by newspaper publication (or posting) notice of its intention to take competitive bids under the provisions of Section 2, Article 236a, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date: December 20, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-173 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-173

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Medical assistance payments for public assistance recipients by State Department of Public Welfare.
Date: December 27, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-174 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-174

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Reconsideration of Attorney General's Opinion M-30, and/or a clarification of same, in relation to the licensure of an individual under the stated fact situation.
Date: December 17, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-175 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-175

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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Jurisdiction of Railroad Commission of Texas over anhydrous ammonia pipe lines
Date: December 27, 1967
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-556 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-556

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Senate Bill 527, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, relating to the financing of services to crippled children with blindness, and related questions.
Date: December 2, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-557 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-557

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether purchase of refrigerators, ranges, sinks, a combination of the three percolators, cups, and the like need statutory pre-existing law to be paid out of funds in the State Treasury and related questions.
Date: December 3, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-558 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-558

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Construction of Article 15.16 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1966 as to word “immediately.”
Date: December 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-559 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-559

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a 1965 Model Twin Cessnar Aircraft 310-J may be paid for out of funds appropriated to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission under House Bill No. 12, Acts 59th Legislature, 1965.
Date: December 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-560 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-560

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the head of a state mental hospital may continue to transfer, furlough and discharge after January 1, 1966, a patient committed to the hospital under the provisions of Article 932b of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Date: December 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-561 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-561

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether state officials and heads of State agencies are to be considered State employees insofar as the transportation allowance for the use of personally owned automobiles are concerned, and related questions.
Date: December 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-562 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-562

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: In an examining trial as provided for in the Code of Criminal Procedure, whether it is necessary to have a court reporter present, or can the magistrate appoint any one who is capable to take down the statements and other materials that must appear in the record.
Date: December 6, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-563 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-563

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Section 11 of Article 7477, Vernon’s Civil Statutes, includes by implication, authorization for the Comptroller of Public Accounts to establish special accounts for the receipt and disbursement of funds received by the Commission by bequests and gifts.
Date: December 9, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-564 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-564

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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Board of Mental Health and Mental Retardation is authorized to dispose of land at the Abilene State School under the Provisions of Article 3232c, V. C. S.
Date: December 10, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History