Automatic Stabilizer for Aeroplanes (open access)

Automatic Stabilizer for Aeroplanes

Patent for an automatic stabilizer for aeroplanes. This invention is a gyroscopically controlled means for correcting undue tilt in longitudinal axis. Illustration included.
Date: October 1, 1912
Creator: Yeamans, Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Delivering and Hauling Seines (open access)

Apparatus for Delivering and Hauling Seines

Patent for an apparatus for delivering and hauling seines that can be used in deeper water and is safer than the ordinary method of using seines.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Duffy, John J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Hoe and Plow (open access)

Combination Hoe and Plow

Patent for a tool that can be used as either a hoe or a plow. Illustrations included.
Date: July 16, 1912
Creator: Willis, William B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Separator and Bagging Device for Grain (open access)

Combined Separator and Bagging Device for Grain

Patent for a thresher attachment that uses a suction fan to separate grain from lighter materials and allows the grain to be collected in a bag or other container.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Henninger, Thomas C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer (open access)

Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer

This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-636 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-636

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 County Attorney of Matagorda County, Texas, has the duty to act under the new Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.
Date: March 14, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-441 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-441

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 Seawall Commission for Matagorda County created by Chapter 4, page 11, 43rd Legislature, Fourth Called Session, 1934, is still an effective body, and alternative questions.
Date: May 19, 1965
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-710 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-710

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 shrimp trawls larger than 10 feet be used for taking legal size shrimp in Carancahua Bay, Matagorda County?
Date: September 25, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1015 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1015

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 persons who were over 60 years of age on January 1, 1960, and reside in Bay City are required to possess an exemption certificate, by virtue of the fact that the 1960 Federal census shows that Bay City is now a city of 10,000 inhabitants or more.
Date: March 13, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-745 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-745

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 office of County School Superintendent exists in Matagorda County.
Date: December 11, 1970
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3787 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3787

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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Terms of office of Collegeport Rural High School District Trustees and related questions.
Date: August 7, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-729 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-729

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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Exemption from state and county ad valorem taxation of the fractional owner-ship interests of the Cities of San Antonio and Austin in a nuclear power plant located in Matagorda County, Texas.
Date: October 30, 1975
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Jackson County, Block 19

Parent map for Jackson County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wharton County, Block 18

Parent map for Wharton 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: Matagorda County, Block 24

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Matagorda County, Index

Index map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:161,775.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Matagorda County, Block 16

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Matagorda County, Block 22

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Matagorda County, Block 25

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Matagorda County, Block 14

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Brazoria County, Block 21

Parent map for Brazoria County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:15,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Matagorda County, Block 28

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

2000 Census County Block Map: Wharton County, Block 23

Parent map for Wharton 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: Matagorda County, Block 12

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:20,000.
Date: 2000
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History