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79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3490, Chapter 1167
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of The Lakes Fresh Water Supply District of Denton County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
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 3534, Chapter 774
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Denton County Municipal Utility District No. 6; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3535, Chapter 1330
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the City of Fort Worth Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Denton County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3182, Chapter 752
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Tradition Municipal Utility District No. 2 of Denton County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 389, Chapter 276
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the eminent domain authority of Texas Woman's University.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4044, Chapter 791
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the qualifications and method of electing directors of the Mustang Special Utility District.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4057, Chapter 962
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the powers and duties of the Denton County Levee Improvement District No. 1 of Denton and Dallas Counties, Texas; providing authority to issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4061, Chapter 793
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Denton County Municipal Utility District No. 7; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4101, Chapter 967
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the powers of the Talley Ranch Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 of Denton County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1983, Chapter 1343
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 902, Chapter 643
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to a student fitness and recreational fee at Texas Woman's University.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 58
Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives designating Lewisville Lake as the Urban Bass Fishing Capital of Texas.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Sower, Planter, Cultivator, Scraper, and Gang-Plow.
Patent for "a strong, simple, durable, and effective machine, which shall be so constructed and arranged that it may be readily adjusted for use as a gang plow, seed-sower, seed-planter, cultivator, and cotton-scrape, and which will do its work thoroughly and well in either capacity." Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 7, 1870
Creator:
Eddleman, James P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Water-Elevators.
Patent for "an endless chain of buckets on a reel for working them, so contrived that it tilts the buckets so that they empty and pass the spout without revolving, whereby the contrivance is simpler and better than when they are made to revolve, and the buckets are linked together by a novel contrivance for carrying them, to enter the water bottom downward, and to allow the air to escape when filling." (Lines 5-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 6, 1876
Creator:
Smith, Edgar J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cleaner for Cotton-Gin Saws
Patent for "a new and improved cleaner for removing gummy and other matter from the saws of cotton-gins while the latter are running, thus permitting the saws to work very effectively in removing the lint from the seed" (lines 8-13).
Date:
June 4, 1889
Creator:
Godwin, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well Bucket.
Patent for a new and improved well-bucket. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the upper bucket and the lower external bucket, the former having a central vertical tube adapted to receive the rod for operating the valve of the lower bucket, and the spring arranged around the said rod" (lines 5-10).
Date:
June 23, 1885
Creator:
Arnold, James S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Padded Underwaist.
Patent for a new and improved padded underwaist. This design "has for its object to provide a waist to be worn by persons who are thin or emaciated, to beautify the appearance, to increase the breadth from shoulder to shoulder, and to make the form look plump and round" (lines 14-18). To this end it is "provided upon its inner surface with pockets extending down the middle of the back, on the breasts, around the lower edge, down the sleeves, and down the sides beneath the arms, the pockets down the sleeves and beneath the arms being united together" (lines 90-95).
Date:
June 18, 1889
Creator:
McDowell, Mary D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stock Car.
Patent for an improved stock-car for transporting cattle and horses on railways.
Date:
June 28, 1881
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hay Press.
Patent for a new and improved hay-press. This design consists, "in combination with the plungers and their rack-stems, the cog, the brackets . . . curved as described, and having the flange, combined with the ways . . . and the anti-friction rolls, operating each on the rear of one of the rack-stems . . . [which are] combined with the brackets, detachably secured to the press, their forward ends constituting in connection with the rear plate of the press guide-ways for said stems" (lines 80-100).
Date:
June 14, 1887
Creator:
Cope, Mason L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harvesters and Mowing Machines.
Patent for a new and improved attachment for harvesters and mowers. This design is "to afford means whereby a mowing or reaping machine may be enabled easily to travel over soft or marshy ground; . . . the novelty consists in a shoe proper for each driving-wheel of the machine, each shoe made of a curved piece of metal . . . and provided with a long narrow slot running lengthwise of the shoe, . . . and so adapted that under each wheel one of the shoes shall be placed in such a manner that one of the shoes shall pass through the longitudinal slot in the shoe" (lines 19-32).
Date:
June 28, 1887
Creator:
Jones, Jeremiah C. & Marshall, Sumner B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-850
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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Denton County can convey certain real property for valuable consideration directly without following advertisement procedure of Art. 1577, V.A.C.S.
Date:
June 8, 1960
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-128
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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Who has the authority to set the compensation of official courts of law in Denton County (RQ-195)
Date:
June 17, 1992
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO89-49
Letter opinion 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Denton County is responsible for maintenance of a portion of road in the county that had previously been within the corporate limits of the city of Oak Point.
Date:
June 14, 1989
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3840, Chapter 860
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the extension of the deadline for holding the confirmation and initial directors' election of the Tradition Municipal Utility District No. 2 of Denton County.
Date:
June 17, 2011
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History