Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-078 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-078

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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether a justice of peace may serve as a Bexar County Juvenile law master(ID# 31206)
Date: July 26, 1996
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-262 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-262

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 Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether an area of northeastern Bexar County may be disannexed from the Alamo Community College district (RQ-0202-JC).
Date: July 26, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Burner (open access)

Burner

Patent for an oil burner, in combination with a gas generating portion of a burner pipe below and provided by a upwardly directed discharge opening, a drip pan secured in place and extending horizontally below said burning pipe.
Date: July 26, 1921
Creator: Kunkel, Albert R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration. (open access)

Method of Working Volatile Hydrates for Artificial Refrigeration.

Patent for a new and improved method of working volatile hydrates for refrigeration. This invention "consists in the continuous circulation through a chamber to be refrigerated of aqueous solution of volatile matter previously cooled by the expansive elimination therefrom of a portion of said volatile matter" (lines 64-68).
Date: July 26, 1881
Creator: Rose, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tooth (open access)

Tooth

Patent for an artificial tooth. Illustrations included.
Date: July 26, 1910
Creator: Stallman, George E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Converting Mesquite Beans. (open access)

Method of Converting Mesquite Beans.

Patent for a new and improved method of treating mesquite beans. This is a design "whereby they are converted into a healthful easily-digestible article of food . . . or may be infused in liquid for producing a healthful or agreeable drink" (lines 8-13). It consists, "first, in a preliminary drying of the bean as a whole to eradicate moisture; second, breaking the thus-dried bean into short pieces to render it more readily affected by the heat . . . third, roasting the broken particles to render friable or more brittle; fourth, grinding the mass, and fifth, separating the powdered bean and outer pod from the hull" (lines 13-21).
Date: July 26, 1892
Creator: Jacobs, Thomas H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dental Clamp (open access)

Dental Clamp

Patent for a dental clamp. Illustration included.
Date: July 26, 1904
Creator: Carroll, Houston Monroe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History