79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 868, Chapter 1009 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 868, Chapter 1009

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the establishment of a Center for Excellence in Deaf Studies and Deaf Education at Lamar University.
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 3634, Chapter 771 (open access)

80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3634, Chapter 771

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the name and powers of the Jefferson County Waterway and Navigation District.
Date: June 15, 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2296, Chapter 799 (open access)

82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2296, Chapter 799

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of Jefferson County Management District No. 1; providing authority to impose an assessment, impose a tax, and issue bonds.
Date: June 17, 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1162, Chapter 855 (open access)

84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1162, Chapter 855

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts, including conforming amendments.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1361, Chapter 323 (open access)

85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1361, Chapter 323

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of the Sabine-Neches Navigation District of Jefferson County.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4666, Chapter 495 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4666, Chapter 495

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the modernization of the law governing the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4695, Chapter 474 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4695, Chapter 474

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the administration of the Port of Port Arthur Navigation District of Jefferson County, including the authority to impose taxes.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2212, Chapter 685 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2212, Chapter 685

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the maintenance and operation of certain projects by certain drainage districts.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerodrome (open access)

Aerodrome

Patent for an aerodrome. Illustrations included.
Date: June 6, 1911
Creator: Mayhew, Nathaniel L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bicycle Support (open access)

Bicycle Support

Patent for a bicycle support, which can be attached to different bicycles and carried in the pocket.
Date: June 17, 1902
Creator: Moss, Eric
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Boring-Bit. (open access)

Boring-Bit.

Patent for a boring drill. The invention creates a new means "for connecting the constituent members of the head so as to provide novel means for assembling the head with a driving element" (lines 19-22).
Date: June 10, 1913
Creator: Larnce, John B.; Townsend, S. L. & Keith, Aubrey R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner. (open access)

Burner.

Patent for improvements in burners to allow them to use liquid fuel such as oil.
Date: June 1, 1920
Creator: Placette, Joeseph G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coaling Device. (open access)

Coaling Device.

Patent for coal colliers that breaks the coal into small pieces and lifts the coal to pour the coal into the ship's bunkers.
Date: June 22, 1920
Creator: Buchanan, Stewart Harold
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dust Separating Apparatus (open access)

Dust Separating Apparatus

Patent for a dust separating apparatus. This device is designed for seperating dust from the air. Illustrations included.
Date: June 27, 1905
Creator: Duke, Holmes
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Float-Controlled Liquid-Gaging and Cut-Off Means. (open access)

Float-Controlled Liquid-Gaging and Cut-Off Means.

Patent for an automatic cut off device for oil tanks that indicates the amount of water in an oil tank and will automatically close the discharge opening when all the water has been discarded from the tank.
Date: June 29, 1920
Creator: Waldrep, Granville J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Adjusting Planer Knives. (open access)

Gage for Adjusting Planer Knives.

Patent for a new and improved gauge for planer knives. This design is "for use in planing and other mills where side heads are used to supply the need of a convenient appliance for holding the side heads in best position for filing, sharpening, or setting the bits, to afford a strong machine for holding the side heads firmly and securely in any position that the work[person] may desire while sharpening or adjusting the bits to the desired pattern" (lines 30-38).
Date: June 17, 1884
Creator: Thompson, Francis B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gearing for Hoisting Apparatus (open access)

Gearing for Hoisting Apparatus

Patent for gearing that hoists items in construction. This one is designed more specifically with the drilling of wells in mind, but it can be used in other activities as well. The apparatus can run at varying speeds, all controlled by a single person who does not have to leave the controls to adjust said speed.
Date: June 5, 1917
Creator: Black, Lee Jackson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Heater (open access)

Heater

Patent for a new and useful heater design "particularly for heating the water in the circulating system of internal combustion engines, such as are used in automobiles" (lines 10-12). Illustrations are included.
Date: June 6, 1916
Creator: Smith, Frederick C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hoisting Hook. (open access)

Hoisting Hook.

Patent for "certain new and useful Improvements in Hoisting-Hooks" (lines 5-6) including specifications and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1915
Creator: Black, Lee J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks. (open access)

Improvement in Drawing Off Tallow, Lard &c., from Rendering-Tanks.

Patent for a new method for drawing off tallow, lard, etc. from pressure tanks by introducing water. This includes illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1870
Creator: Archer, John H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Burners (open access)

Improvements in Burners

Patent for improvements for burners. It is related explicitly to hydrocarbon burners. Its purpose is to keep the oil and steam separate as they leave the burner by keeping them in two separate streams.
Date: June 19, 1918
Creator: Trahan, Clair A
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvment in Steam-Plows. (open access)

Improvment in Steam-Plows.

Patent for one machine that plows, sows, roles and harrow soil in one operation or separately, including illustrations.
Date: June 25, 1861
Creator: Saladee, Cyrus W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Log-Hauling Locomotive. (open access)

Log-Hauling Locomotive.

Patent for certain new and useful improvements in log hauling locomotives, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 7, 1898
Creator: Fletcher, William Andrew
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Match Box (open access)

Match Box

Patent for form of single delivery match box. Illustrations included.
Date: June 28, 1904
Creator: Pevoto, Calvit F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History