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80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1401, Chapter 469
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the powers and duties of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 402 regarding road projects; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
2007-04/2007-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1694, Chapter 1358
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the boundaries of the Airline Improvement District in Harris County.
Date:
2007-04/2007-06
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Fish-Hooks.
Patent for "new and useful improvement in the Sockdolager Fish-Hook" (lines 4-5), including illustration.
Date:
April 11, 1854
Creator:
Sigler, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Conductors for Railroad-Trains.
Patent for improvement in spark-conductors for railroad trains by using a “horizontal flue in sections and use “other devices to engage and disengage the sections, where by to arrest and extinguish sparks and conduct the smoke, ashes, and cinders to the rear.” (Lines 16-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 27, 1869
Creator:
Wright, Reuben
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Furnaces.
Patent for improvements in furnaces, using steam to create heat. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
April 12, 1870
Creator:
Morris, Joseph R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Mosquito-Net Frames.
Patent for "mosquito-net frames which are made adjustable, so that they may be extended over the bed or folded compactly, according to the requirements of use." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 3, 1877
Creator:
Volle, Johann F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Carriage-Springs
Patent for improved design for carriage-springs with included illustrations of the spring design as well as diagram of placement on a carriage/wagon.
Date:
April 29, 1873
Creator:
Richardson, J. D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle Box for Locomotives.
Patent for a new and improved axle-box for locomotives. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a pedestal, of an axle-box mounted to slide vertically in the said pedestal, a second axle-box mounted with one side in a bearing in the said pedestal, and a connecting-rod secured to the last-named axle-box and pivotally connected with the first-named axle-box" (lines 67-73).
Date:
April 2, 1889
Creator:
Chase, Ransford T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cart-Saddle
Patent for a more animal-friendly saddle to attach a horse to a cart by adjusting the way the girth is handled as the cart is loaded.
Date:
April 1, 1879
Creator:
Franks, Ely Anderson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark-Arrester.
Patent for concepts and designs used to improve performance of Spark-Arresters used in the smoke stacks of locomotives with illustrations and instructions.
Date:
April 6, 1880
Creator:
Wiggin, John E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for "construction and arrangement of arrow-shaped draw-heads and lever-bars adjustable upon rack-bars for the purpose of raising and lowering the draw-heads" (lines 16-20)including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 20, 1880
Creator:
Gray, John D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Powder Duster
Patent for "a truck mounted upon wheels, to the reat end of which is adjusted a sifter that, as the machine is progressing, will have lateral reciprocating motion imparted thereto and eject powder through an attached meshed screen" (lines 10-15).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Glover, Charles Bazel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Forming Cotton-Seed Meal into Cakes
Patent for "an organized machine adapted to rapidly compress charges of cotton-seed meal into cakes of sufficient solidity to bear handling and removal to a press, whereby the oil is expressed therefrom, and to deliver said cakes at a point or points in convenient proximity to said press or presses, so that the time and labor involved in preparing the meal for the, press and of inserting it therein will be reduced to the minimum" (lines 9-18).
Date:
April 8, 1890
Creator:
Price, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Baling-Presses.
Patent for improvements to presses used for baling cotton and other materials, including illustrations.
Date:
April 8, 1879
Creator:
McGowen, Edmond Felder
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tongs.
Patent for new and improved tongs. This design "relates to certain devices for preventing the legs of tongs from twisting, overlapping, or becoming cross-legged. This is a common fault in almost all tongs when the joint wears a little loose, and is entirely overcome and prevented by [this] invention" (lines 19-24).
Date:
April 29, 1884
Creator:
Wood, William E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Process of Curing Moss
Patent for invention relates to new and improved process of curing Spanish moss object of the invention being to shorten the time here to fore deemed necessary to properly cure the moss, second to obtain a larger percentage of higher grades of fiber will not be injured but will appear in a sound healthy condition, and fourth to so treat the moss that any desired grade of fiber may be obtained. [5-15]
Date:
April 17, 1887
Creator:
Lottman, Charles F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine.
Patent for improvements to rotary engine designs.
Date:
April 22, 1884
Creator:
Griffin, George L.; Shoup, William A. & Cade, James Robert
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Exercising Device.
Patent for an "exercising device for teaching beginners the correct touch on the piano to systematically develop finger [technique]." (Lines 9-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 30, 1895
Creator:
Felden, Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Disk Plow.
Patent for "a new and useful improvement in disk plows, the object being to construct a plow of the kind described in which the resistance encountered by the main cutting or master disk in operation is counteracted by oppositely-disposed disks, one of which acts as a subspoiler, the other as a jointer, making a partial penetration of the land, which is followed by the master-disk in the succeeding furrow." (Lines 24-33) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
April 7, 1896
Creator:
Stewart, John A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4513
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: Is the stock transfer tax levied by Article XV, House Bill 8, Acts, Regular Session, 47th Legislature (Article 7047a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), applicable to the original issue of the transfer of shares of stock, certificates, etc. of (1) The Federal Land Bank of Houston, (2) The Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston, (3) The Production Credit Corporation of Houston, (4) The Houston Bank for Cooperatives, (5) Production Credit Associations , (6) National Farm Loan Association and (7) Federal Savings and Loan Associations.
Date:
April 24, 1942
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-56
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 Commissioners Court of Harris County may require that plans and specifications of storm sewers of Fresh Water Supply Districts be submitted to the County Engineer, for his approval, prior to construction of such sewers when the storm sewers are to be located within the areal confines of Harris County roads; in subdivisions not within cities; and whether Texas Water Rights Commission has any authority to exercise supervisory power over such districts during the construction and maintenance of such storm sewers.
Date:
April 10, 1967
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LA-15
Letter opinion 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;The Constitutionality of Senate Bill 499 relating to the Crosby Municipal Utility District of Harris County,Texas.
Date:
April 25, 1973
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bit-Frame
Patent for a bit frame for holding ceiling cleats in place so that screws can be driven at each end. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 9, 1912
Creator:
Lagarde, Everette S. & Angenend, Peter A., Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Baling-Press.
Patent for baling-presses to prevent the inward-drawing or centripetal movement of the fiber in a press of the roller type (lines 96-97) by “disposed intermediate of the rollers and within the plane of the baling-cylinder for opposing resistance to the inward movement of the fiber and overcoming to a greater or less extent the tendency of the upper layer of cotton to form waves or billows in advance of the rollers.” (Page 1, lines 101-102, page 2, lines 1-6.) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 22, 1902
Creator:
Atkinson, Joseph J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History