78th Texas Legislature, Fourth Called Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 1 (open access)

78th Texas Legislature, Fourth Called Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 1

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives relating to granting permission to adjourn from April 20 to April 27, 2004.
Date: May 3, 2004
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 101, Chapter 7 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 101, Chapter 7

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to efficiently administering and electronically monitoring certain veterans' and dependents' tuition exemptions at institutions of higher education.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 148, Chapter 8 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 148, Chapter 8

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the exception from required public disclosure of a photograph of a peace officer.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 217, Chapter 9 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 217, Chapter 9

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to reporting the outcome of alcohol and drug tests of holders of commercial driver's licenses.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 235, Chapter 10 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 235, Chapter 10

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the qualifications of bailiffs and grand jury bailiffs for certain courts.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 239, Chapter 11 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 239, Chapter 11

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to an exemption from the fee for a birth or death record requested by a child fatality review team or the child fatality review team committee.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 245, Chapter 12 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 245, Chapter 12

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to local government authorization of charitable solicitation by a pedestrian.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 280, Chapter 13 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 280, Chapter 13

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to automotive wrecking and salvage yards.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 348, Chapter 14 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 348, Chapter 14

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the availability of judges and magistrates for proceedings related to chemically dependent persons.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 523, Chapter 15 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 523, Chapter 15

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the regional emergency medical dispatch resource center pilot program.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 524, Chapter 16 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 524, Chapter 16

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of a county court at law in Cass County.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 581, Chapter 17 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 581, Chapter 17

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of the Veterans' Land Board.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 734, Chapter 18 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 734, Chapter 18

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to municipal regulation of the discharge of firearms and certain other weapons.
Date: May 3, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen. (open access)

Adjustable Fire Guard and Screen.

Patent for a new and improved fireplace screen. This design "is to provide a simple and efficient device which may be suspended in front of open fireplaces or grates for the purpose of preventing the frequent and sometimes fatal accidents which are directly due to the absence of reliable safe-guards. The invention consists of a series of shields or plates of suitable size and material, which are so connected that when not in use they may be easily drawn upward in succession side by side and compactly placed in an appropriate receptacle attached to the front of a mantel or to a wall above a fireplace" (lines 16-29).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Gibson, Nathaniel B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for Animal Trap especially adapted for the extermination of mice and similar rodents.
Date: 1920-09-5
Creator: Fredrick, Willaim.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ant Trap. (open access)

Ant Trap.

Patent for a new and improved ant trap. This design "compris[es] the sides adapted to encompass an anthill and composed of a bottom, inclined walls, and horizontal top portions, having depending inclined flanges, one of the sides having an opening in its bottom and provided with ways arranged on opposite sides of the opening, a removable receptacle provided with flanges arranged in said ways and having inwardly-inclined walls, and a discharge-tube arranged at one corner of the trap" (lines 77-87).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Royse, John
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton (open access)

Apparatus For Handling Seed Cotton

Patent for an apparatus for handling seed cotton. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Benefield, Chauncey R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone Block. (open access)

Artificial Stone Block.

Patent for a new and improved artificial-stone block. This design "consists in the particular formation of the protuberances by which interlocking joints or seams of the building-blocks are attained, the object of which is to so form the prolific protuberances of said blocks as to permit joining them in close proximity on all the sides or faces of the seam, to reduce the binding material for the same and increase the strength of the same" (lines 14-22).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Graham, George M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Audit Report on Security at the Texas Lottery Commission (open access)

An Audit Report on Security at the Texas Lottery Commission

A comprehensive study performed by the State Auditor's Office of all aspects of lottery security, specifically investigating concerns regarding the Commission's business resumption/disaster recovery site and determining the effect of the Commission's reorganization on its Security Division.
Date: May 3, 2006
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design "comprise[s] a frame and case having aligned baling-chambers at opposite ends, a follower having two head-blocks working one in each of the baling-chambers, a shaft journaled between the baling-chambers, and two ropes connected at one end to the shaft and at their other ends to the opposite head-blocks" (lines 46-53).
Date: May 3, 1887
Creator: Green, William Robert & Green, Newton Jasper
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press (open access)

Baling Press

Patent for a baling press. Illustration included.
Date: May 3, 1904
Creator: Key, William C. & Frost, Harvey N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bath Tub. (open access)

Bath Tub.

Patent for a new and improved bath tub. This design consists in "a removable bottom provided with perforations or openings, and with supports to sustain it above the permanent bottom of the tub, a single opening in said tub below the level of the removable bottom for inlet and outlet purposes, a valve for closing said opening, and a rod within reach of the head of the tub for operating the valve and the cover" (lines 9-16).
Date: May 3, 1887
Creator: Watson, David R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bell/Williamson Regional Water Supply Facility Plan (open access)

Bell/Williamson Regional Water Supply Facility Plan

This document contains the "Jarrel Schwertner Water Supply Corporation (JSWSC)final report for the Regional Water Supply Facility Planning Grant and their response to the Texas Development Boards (TWDB) draft report comment letter."
Date: May 3, 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Blotter Holder. (open access)

Blotter Holder.

Patent for a new and improved blotter-holder. This design "relates to improvements in devices for attaching to the top of a desk the sheet of blotting-paper usually employed as a surface upon which to write; and it consists in certain appliances by which the blotter will be held tightly and securely to the desk-top and which will present no obtruding edges" (lines 11-18).
Date: May 3, 1892
Creator: Welch, James S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History