Providers of Telecommunications Services, April 2012 (open access)

Providers of Telecommunications Services, April 2012

This document provides information on the jurisdictions that have imposed local sales tax on telecommunication services.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1127, Chapter 291 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1127, Chapter 291

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the issuance of bonds for recreational facilities by certain conservation and reclamation districts in Montgomery County.
Date: 2007-04/2007-06
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79 (open access)

Ground-Water Withdrawals and Changes in Water Levels in the Houston District, Texas 1975-79

Report on the published data on ground-water development in the Houston, Texas district.
Date: April 1984
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-827 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-827

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 the Montgomery County Clerk can accept a certificate of a nomination made in the primary election and place the nominee's name on the general election ballot, under facts stated.
Date: April 25, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Driving-Rein Guard. (open access)

Driving-Rein Guard.

Patent for a driving rein guard in order to hold the reins of a draft animal.
Date: April 8, 1913
Creator: Sibley, Alexander B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Window-Sash. (open access)

Window-Sash.

Patent for a window sash, which can have window panes installed in it without the use of putty.
Date: April 5, 1910
Creator: Perkins, Wallace P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tooth-Bender. (open access)

Tooth-Bender.

Patent for a tooth bender for band saw teeth, which keeps the teeth in place for use and for grinding.
Date: April 20, 1909
Creator: Dell Ge Bott, Jay
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rail Tie and Brace (open access)

Rail Tie and Brace

Patent for a rail tie and brace. Illustrations included.
Date: April 21, 1908
Creator: Frampton, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Picker. (open access)

Cotton-Picker.

Patent for a skeleton glove for picking cotton that protects the fingers from chafing from the plant through the use of metal or leather thimbles on the end of each finger of the glove.
Date: April 2, 1907
Creator: Adkins, Willis
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad Joint and Chair (open access)

Railroad Joint and Chair

Patent for a railroad joint and chair. Illustration included.
Date: April 12, 1904
Creator: Hooper, William N. & Sunday, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insect-Destroying Machine. (open access)

Insect-Destroying Machine.

Patent for improvements in insect-destroying machines to remove and destroy the boll-weevil of cotton plants by “gathering the branches of the plant into position to be effectively operated upon by a revolving brush which sweeps the weevils from the plant into a box carried by the machine without injury to the cotton plants.” (Lines 25 -30)
Date: April 22, 1902
Creator: Dyer, Charles V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Music Holder. (open access)

Music Holder.

Patent for a new and improved sheet-music holder. This design consists "[i]n a music-holder, the combination of the base-board, the tension arms, the frictional spiral-swings, the plates perforated to receive the screw, and having the countersunk perforation to receive the knots in the ends of the elastic cords, and the knot receiver" (lines 50-55).
Date: April 28, 1885
Creator: Frampton, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History