86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1627, Chapter 127 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1627, Chapter 127

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the removal of certain counties from the Texas emissions reduction plan.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2368, Chapter 1066 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2368, Chapter 1066

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the composition of the Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners of the Victoria County Navigation District.
Date: 2007-05/2007-06
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-46 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: S-46

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, John Ben Shepperd, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court to spend county funds to hard-surface a piece of land owned by the city of Victoria adjacent to the county courthouse to provide parking space for city and county officials.
Date: May 28, 1953
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ladder. (open access)

Ladder.

Patent for a ladder that will allow its prop legs to be slided longitudinally of the main ladder legs to form an extension ladder.
Date: May 23, 1912
Creator: Vierheller, Paul E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap (open access)

Animal-Trap

Patent for an animal trap. Illustrations included.
Date: May 16, 1911
Creator: Morris, Leopold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Non-Refillable Bottle (open access)

Non-Refillable Bottle

Patent for a non-refillable bottle that once filled, it does not allow anything else to be added to the bottle.
Date: May 15, 1906
Creator: Burke, Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Drier and Warmer. (open access)

Bed Drier and Warmer.

Patent for a new and improved bed drier and warmer. This design "includes, primarily, a suitable frame of essentially elliptical form, whose ends allow of the said frame being readily slipped in between the bed and bedding or between two articles of bedding, and in connection with said frame a suitable fire-pot of portable construction" (lines 23-29).
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Fossati, Jasper
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cultivators. (open access)

Improvement in Cultivators.

Patent for changes in the construction of a cultivator.
Date: May 23, 1871
Creator: Walker, Leander
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History