Heater. (open access)

Heater.

Patent for a heater, "designed for use in orchards for raising the temperature of the atmosphere at times when frosts or freezing temperature is threatened" (lines 11-14). Illustration included.
Date: November 18, 1919
Creator: Briscoe, Williard H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Orchard-Heat or Smudge-Pot (open access)

Orchard-Heat or Smudge-Pot

Patent for a new and useful improvement in orchard-heaters and smudge-pots to provide an improved drat flue and damper carried by a cap especially adapted for use in connection with heaters or crude oil smudge pots commonly used in various orchards during frosty weather. The invention aims to provide a draft flue and damper to withstand the most severe and erratic winds, the damper capable of being opened to suit any temperature, without impairing its efficiency in protecting the draft.
Date: October 18, 1921
Creator: Potter, Arthur C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-228 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-228

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 give-away program of certain merchants in Hidalgo County, Texas, under the facts stated, constitute a lottery.
Date: March 18, 1964
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3570, Chapter 1335 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3570, Chapter 1335

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in Hidalgo County.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a Medicaid health literacy pilot program and health care funding districts in certain counties and authorizing the districts to impose taxes on certain institutional health care providers located in the districts.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 138 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 138

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate memorializing Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs to support the veterans of South Texas by building a veterans hospital in Weslaco, Texas.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 118 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 118

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate in memory of former Hidalgo County Commissioner Oscar L. Garza Jr. of Edinburg.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History