79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 812, Chapter 519 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 812, Chapter 519

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Sunrise Municipal Utility District of Hunt County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 813, Chapter 520 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 813, Chapter 520

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Union Valley Ranch Municipal Utility District of Hunt County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 468, Chapter 718 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 468, Chapter 718

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the depository designated by the Hunt Memorial Hospital District.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling. (open access)

Car Coupling.

Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists "[i]n a car-coupling, the combination of a recessed draw-head having abutments . . . and a transverse ridge, of a link adapted to rock on said ridge, a pivoted coupling-hook carrying a diagonally-projecting pin near its forward end, and a spiral spring arranged diagonally above the coupling-hook and surrounding said pin" (lines 93-100).
Date: November 17, 1885
Creator: Nutting, Adrain
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calculating-Machine. (open access)

Calculating-Machine.

Patent for an improvement to mechanical calculators by providing the "means for facilitating the addition of successive numbers of the same or different denominations, and also for subtracting and multiplying the same by substantially the means employed in adding" (lines 10-14). It includes a written explanation and illustrations.
Date: April 17, 1894
Creator: Stallard, Sherman R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-513 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-513

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: May the County Commissioners of Hunt County drive and operate motor vehicles owned and maintained by the county in the performance of their duties and also draw the monthly expense allowance authorized under Section 2, Article 2350n, Vernon's Civil Statutes, and related questions.
Date: October 17, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1157 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1157

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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the board of trustees of an independent school district may contract for tax collection with the county when the county assessor-collector is also a member of the board of directors of the appraisal district (RQ-1943)
Date: April 17, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 315, Chapter 469 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 315, Chapter 469

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Hunt County Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pounder (open access)

Clothes Pounder

Patent for a clothes pounder. Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1910
Creator: Turner, James S. & Campbell, John Luther
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mulsher. (open access)

Mulsher.

Patent for a tool to help with farming. It cuts weeds below the surface of the ground and throws the soil towards the row of crops. This tool should help with crop growth.
Date: August 17, 1915
Creator: Sikes, Jonas C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History