1970 Census of Population & Housing for the Alamo Area: First Series, Number 1 - Counties & AACOG Totals (open access)

1970 Census of Population & Housing for the Alamo Area: First Series, Number 1 - Counties & AACOG Totals

First report in a series on census data related to population and housing in the Alamo area of Texas arranged by enumeration district and location name, outlining data by counties.
Date: June 1971
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2441, Chapter 1285 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2441, Chapter 1285

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the recreational facility fee at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3520, Chapter 1327 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3520, Chapter 1327

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the distribution of assessments charged by Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bills 2463, Chapter 1367

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a Medicaid health literacy pilot program and health care funding districts in certain counties and authorizing the districts to impose taxes on certain institutional health care providers located in the districts.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 296, Chapter 793 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 296, Chapter 793

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the operation of Texas A&M University--San Antonio, including the student enrollment required for operation as an independent general academic teaching institution and supplemental funding of the university.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1853, Chapter 454 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1853, Chapter 454

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the distribution of assessments charged by Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Counties Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.
Date: June 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1091, Chapter 982 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1091, Chapter 982

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Somerset Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1092, Chapter 983 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1092, Chapter 983

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Somerset Municipal Utility District No. 2; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2351, Chapter 524 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2351, Chapter 524

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the authority of the Bexar County Hospital District to employ physicians.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2935, Chapter 556 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2935, Chapter 556

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the appointment of a court reporter by a criminal law magistrate in Bexar County.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1806 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1806

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the use of water withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer by certain entities.
Date: June 15, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3529, Chapter 896 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3529, Chapter 896

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of a family violence pretrial diversion pilot program in Bexar County.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1545, Chapter 639 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1545, Chapter 639

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Bexar County Hospital District.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Achieve World Class Excellence In Medical Services (open access)

Achieve World Class Excellence In Medical Services

Report outlining the plans for San Antonio to position itself as an international bioscience center. Includes plans to support the emergence of first-rank clinical centers, long-term recovery-recuperation facilities, and continued expansion of current bioscience facilities.
Date: June 21, 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Extracting Honey (open access)

Apparatus for Extracting Honey

Patent for an apparatus for extracting honey. Illustration included.
Date: June 9, 1908
Creator: Avant, Leonidas W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Box for Carrying Wireless Signalling Apparatus (open access)

Box for Carrying Wireless Signalling Apparatus

Patent for a box for carrying wireless signaling equipment that fits the equipment well and has a handle or strap for carrying the box with.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Candy and Process of Making Same (open access)

Candy and Process of Making Same

Patent for a "fruit or nut taffy, comprising two distinct kinds of candy, which are separately manufactured and afterward combined in a single article or piece of confectionery" (lines 11-14), including ingredients and process.
Date: June 18, 1901
Creator: Webb, Jesse B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for a car coupling that consists of a pin, a lever, a catchbar, a drawhead that sits under the catchbar and guides it, a rack slide, and a curved lifter. It improves on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 437,734).
Date: June 27, 1893
Creator: Testard, Adrian
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cattle Guard (open access)

Cattle Guard

Patent for a cattle guard. "This invention is a cattle guard having transverse drainage conduits with overhanging plates and so proportioned that the foot of an animal will be projected into the conduit" (lines 13-17). Illustration included.
Date: June 26, 1906
Creator: Lee, Jacob Martin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cheese Cutter (open access)

Cheese Cutter

Patent for a cheese cutter which includes a scale to determine the amount of cheese including illustrations.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Niggli, Emil
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences. (open access)

Clamp or Fastener for Wire Fences.

Patent for a new and improved clamp for wire fences. This design "is to make a device by which the horizontal rails of a wire fence may be conveniently fastened to the vertical stay-wires" (lines 12-15). It "consist[s] of the metallic disk or plate with the curved cross-groove and prongs to hold the horizontal rail and the perpendicular stay-wire, and the key" (lines 69-73).
Date: June 7, 1892
Creator: Rogers, Charles S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Clinical Thermometer. (open access)

Clinical Thermometer.

Patent for a new and improved thermometer. This design has "[u]pon the body of the instrument a scale, preferably equivalent to the centigrade . . . in which the zero-sign is placed at the normal temperature of the body, each degree being divided into five or ten parts according to the size of the instrument and reading supernormal and subnormal degrees" (lines 20-26).
Date: June 11, 1889
Creator: Hunstock, Robert H. & Chávez, Emigdio
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wire and Wireless Telegraph System. (open access)

Combined Wire and Wireless Telegraph System.

Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that has a wireless system in between two wired systems.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Wire and Wireless Telephone System. (open access)

Combined Wire and Wireless Telephone System.

Patent for a combined wire and wireless telephone system that allows 2 people who are calling through two different central operating stations to talk to each other even though there is no wire directly between the 2 parties, through the use of a wireless system.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History