Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-51 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-51

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, under the provisions of Article 5547-14, Vernon’s Civil Statutes, the Sheriff of Tarrant County may be compensated on a mileage basis for transporting mental patients to mental institutions and related questions.
Date: April 4, 1963
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railway Switch (open access)

Railway Switch

Patent for a railway switch. Illustrations included.
Date: April 4, 1911
Creator: Sydnor, Leslie A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Couch (open access)

Couch

Patent for a couch. Illustration included.
Date: April 4, 1905
Creator: Hartshorn, Guy C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator (open access)

Electric Time-Alarm and Annunciator

Patent for "a combined call and annunciator system by which any number of signals can be sent automatically or manually and various signals received through the annunciator, the apparatus serving to send signals to or from any number of distant points on the circuit at any time" (lines 17-23).
Date: April 4, 1890
Creator: Suren, Nathan H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History