Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for a triangle shaped cultivator with removable mold-boards that can be used as a plow and scraper, including illustration.
Date: May 10, 1859
Creator: Doss, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions. (open access)

Improvement in Piano-Forte Actions.

Patent for a new piano forte design which "consists in certain novel details of construction, arrangement, and combination of the key-lever and its fulcrum and rest, a receiving-lever, a transmitting-eccentric, a secondary hammer, a principal hammer and its rest, and a damper-action and its connections, whereby greater simplicity and efficiency are obtained" (lines 10-17) including illustrations.
Date: May 27, 1879
Creator: Roedern, George O. V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sewing-Machine. (open access)

Sewing-Machine.

Patent for a sewing machine "which will cut or trim the edges of two pieces of cloth during the time that said edges are being stitched together by the needle" (lines 15-18) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1913
Creator: Singer, William W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6014 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6014

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: Clarification of Sea Cell Remission Acts, granting remission of taxes to City of Port Lavaca and to Calhoun County.
Date: May 18, 1944
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Management Performance Review of Calhoun County Independent School District (ISD), May 1993 (open access)

Management Performance Review of Calhoun County Independent School District (ISD), May 1993

Report reviewing the management and performance of the Calhoun County Independent School District and examining their use of funds in different areas of the school system.
Date: May 24, 1993
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History