Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1210 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-1210

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: Authority of the City of Austin Fire Fighter's Relief and Retirement Fund to enter into "securities lending agreements" with a corporate borrower (RQ-1847)
Date: August 20, 1990
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-236 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-236

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the City of Austin has the authority to enact an ordinance prohibiting random drug testing by private employers within the city (RQ-526)
Date: July 20, 1993
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-712 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-712

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 the interpretation of the meaning of the term "nonresident", as the same is used in Art. 6687b, Vernon's Civil Statutes, Sec. 3, paragraph, is there a presumption, rebuttable or otherwise, that a member of the armed forces of the United States, who has been required by his military duties to reside in the State of Texas for a period of more than 90 days, is no longer a "nonresident"?
Date: June 20, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-713 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-713

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 26.04, Vernon's Code of Criminal Procedure, in reference to fees of attorneys appointed to represent defendants who are too poor to employ counsel.
Date: June 20, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-727 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-727

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 H.B. 442, Acts 59th Legislature, 1965, R.S., Chapter 576, p. 1255, applies to buck deer in Harrison County insofar as the open season is concerned or whether H.B. 819, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 1961, R.S., Chapter 510, p. 1122, applies to buck deer as to open season.
Date: July 20, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-774 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-774

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; Traveling expenses of a member of Statutory Revision Advisory Committee Created by Article 5429b-1, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
Date: October 20, 1966
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 669, Chapter 73 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 669, Chapter 73

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the date for the confirmation election for the Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 82nd Legislature, First Called Session, June 20, 2011 (open access)

Journal of the House of Representatives of Texas: 82nd Legislature, First Called Session, June 20, 2011

Proceedings of the House of Representatives of Texas for the 11th day of the first called session of the 82nd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: June 20, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Monday, May 20, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Monday, May 20, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the 62nd day of the regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: May 20, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 20, 2013 (open access)

Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the twenty-ninth day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature, documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 497, Chapter 71 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 497, Chapter 71

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 71 in Travis County as the Trooper Carlos Ray Warren Memorial Highway.
Date: May 20, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Corn and Cotton Planters.

Patent for improvement in corn and cotton planting machinery, including illustrations.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wireless-Telegraph Receiver (open access)

Wireless-Telegraph Receiver

Patent for a wireless telegraph receiver which receives incoming intelligence through electric waves and uses crystalline substances as its detector. Illustrations included.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Way, Wesley M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Closure for Ventilators (open access)

Valve-Closure for Ventilators

Patent for a new valve-closure for ventilators on plumbing systems by W.L. Hamilton and G. McCullough.
Date: December 20, 1917
Creator: Hamilton, William L. & McCullough, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Liquid Fuel Burner (open access)

Liquid Fuel Burner

Patent for fuel burner that can be dismantled and easily moved around the kitchen.
Date: June 20, 1920
Creator: Tucker, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for the improvement of cultivators, consisting in the construction and arrangement of of a double-sweep plow. It includes a description and illustration.
Date: August 20, 1872
Creator: Svenson, Bengt Johan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress. (open access)

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for an improved millstone-dress that produce less heat while grinding by employing a greater number of furrows, including illustration.
Date: March 20, 1860
Creator: Littlepage, C. V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Spool and Work Holder. (open access)

Spool and Work Holder.

Patent for a spool and work holder, which is in the shape of a bird and has places to store spools of thread, a pincushion, and a storage place for a piece of work.
Date: September 20, 1910
Creator: Culver, Katherine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the Like.

Patent for the Process of and Apparatus for Hydrogenating Fats, Oils, Waxes, and the like. The invention is related to the improvement of the effective the hydrogenation process of fats, oils, waxes, and similar materials.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Walker, Thomas Bailey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electrolytic Cell (open access)

Electrolytic Cell

Patent for an improved electrolytic cell that automatically maintains its predetermined amount of liquid.
Date: November 20, 1920
Creator: Walker, Thomas Bailey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Exhaust-Steam Condenser. (open access)

Exhaust-Steam Condenser.

Patent for an exhaust-steam condenser meant for steam-engines in places where water needs to be conserved. It also "prevents the use of water for cooling the surfaces of the condenser" (lines 14-16).
Date: August 20, 1895
Creator: Bachman, Joseph A. & Goeth, Adolf C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Power Attachment for Treadle Machines. (open access)

Power Attachment for Treadle Machines.

Patent for a new and improved attachment for treadle machines. This design "consist[s] of the frame provided with the bearings and adapted to support the machine to be driven, the shaft journaled in the said bearings and provided with the arms, the roller journaled between the outer ends of the said arms, and the pulley secured on the said shaft" (lines 85-92).
Date: November 20, 1888
Creator: Von Boeckmann, Eugene
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History