Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 16 Pages 2341-2476, April 22, 2005 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 30, Number 16 Pages 2341-2476, April 22, 2005

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 2005
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 267, Chapter 3 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 267, Chapter 3

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the exclusion from an emergency services district of certain territory subject to assessments.
Date: April 22, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 44 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 44

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to providing that each house grant the other permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Wednesday, April 16, 2003, and ending on Tuesday, April 22, 2003.
Date: April 22, 2003
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for an improvement in the design of corn cultivators, including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1873
Creator: Helm, Jack
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters. (open access)

Improvement in Seed Planters.

Patent for new improvement in seed planting that describes parts of the construction including instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1873
Creator: Suggs, Isaac T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Methods of Adjusting Signaling-Mirrors. (open access)

Improvement in Methods of Adjusting Signaling-Mirrors.

Patent for an improvement in the "method of throwing reflected light of a mirror with accuracy upon a distant object in flash-signaling" (lines 5-7), including illustrations.
Date: April 22, 1873
Creator: Kenney, Martin M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Channel Cleaner. (open access)

Channel Cleaner.

Patent for a new and improved channel cleaner. This design "is to construct an apparatus which may be anchored in a channel where there are sand-bars, for the purpose of agitating the water and stirring up the sand, so that the current may remove it. [The] invention consists in a trunk or large tube perforated along the bottom and provided at one end with a flaring mouth for concentrating the current within the trunk; also, in the combination, with the trunk, of a stirrer and a motor-screw for driving the same" (lines 17-28).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Evans, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Veterinary Medicine (open access)

Veterinary Medicine

Patent for "a compound for the eradication of screw-worms in animals, and it has for its object toprovide a simple and inexpensive compound of this character which will quickly and efficiently destroy the worms, and at the same time serve as both an astringent and antiseptic to the wound" (lines 10-16).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Youngkin, John A. & Youngkin, Josiah S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pad for the Backs of Horses. (open access)

Pad for the Backs of Horses.

Patent for a new and improved pad for horses. This design consists in "the air-tight cushion composed of opposite blanks of elastic air-tight material secured along their adjacent edges, and a central longitudinally-disposed dividing strip dividing the cushion into opposite compartments, and provided with openings affording communication between the compartments" (lines 62-68).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Mudford, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reflector Holder for Lamps. (open access)

Reflector Holder for Lamps.

Patent for a new and improved reflector holder for lamps. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a lamp and a lamp-collar, provided with a circumferential flange, of a reflector provided with a keeper, spring-clasp, springing around said collar under the flange at its lower end, and having its free ends bent angularly at their upper ends and secured in said keeper by their tension and slide" (lines 2-9).
Date: April 22, 1884
Creator: Williams, Daniel Ruggles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rotary Engine. (open access)

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
Fuse for Shells. (open access)

Fuse for Shells.

Patent for a new and improved shell fuse. This design "relates to that type of percussion-fuses wherein a fuse-tube is secured in the point or end of a shell and contains a plunged connected with a friction-wire embedded in the fulminate in such manner that when the flight of the shell is suddenly arrested the friction-wire is drawn forward by the plunger, thereby igniting the fulminate and setting fire to the powder-charge for bursting the shell. The objects of [the] invention are to . . . provide novel means which not only insure bursting of the shell, but avoid premature bursting at the muzzle of the gun" (lines 8-48).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Phillips, George
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Loading Derrick. (open access)

Cotton Loading Derrick.

Patent for a new and improved cotton-loading derrick. This design consists in "[t]he portable derrick, comprising the barrow-base having the longitudinal handle-bars, the extended longitudinal and transverse base-sills, and the bearings, the rotary shaft or mast having the slot and sheave, the upper shoulder and upward-projecting stud, the cross-head, the oblique braces connecting its rear arm to the mast, and the derrick-pulleys suspended from the free arm of said cross-head, the rope passing through said slot and over said sheave and to said pulleys and windlass" (lines 79-90).
Date: April 22, 1890
Creator: Field, Eldon M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 16, Pages 2543-2630, April 22, 2011 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 36, Number 16, Pages 2543-2630, April 22, 2011

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 2011
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 30, Pages 3639-3680, April 22, 1997 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 22, Number 30, Pages 3639-3680, April 22, 1997

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1997
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 29, Pages 3023-3111, April 22, 1994 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 19, Number 29, Pages 3023-3111, April 22, 1994

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1994
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 32, Pages 1945-2001, April 22, 1988 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 13, Number 32, Pages 1945-2001, April 22, 1988

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1988
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 11, Number 31, Pages 1859-1886, April 22, 1986 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 11, Number 31, Pages 1859-1886, April 22, 1986

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1986
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 5, Number 31, Pages 1511-1550, April 22, 1980 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 5, Number 31, Pages 1511-1550, April 22, 1980

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1980
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 8, Number 29, Pages 1313-1362, April 22, 1983 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 8, Number 29, Pages 1313-1362, April 22, 1983

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1983
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 2, Number 32, Pages 1477-1530, April 22, 1977 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 2, Number 32, Pages 1477-1530, April 22, 1977

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 22, 1977
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5055A (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-5055A

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: Section (b) of Article 1899, V. A. C. S., as amended , Acts 47th Legislature, 1941, providing payment of bond premiums of official bonds of county commissioners is valid.
Date: April 22, 1943
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-667 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-667

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: Whether nepotism statute applies and renders invalid a teacher's contract where during the term thereof a relative of the teacher is elected to the board or trustees.
Date: April 22, 1939
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7195 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7195

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, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the Hills County School Board, on its own motion. or on request of the Board of Trustees of Independent District "A", consolidate the entire Common School District "B" and parts of Common School Districts "C" and "D" with Independent School District "A"? and a related question.
Date: April 22, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History