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- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1599, Chapter 581
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to certain conservation and reclamation districts' use of money received under a contract with a municipality.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1800, Chapter 432
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 60; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1801, Chapter 433
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 61; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1802, Chapter 434
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 62; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1803, Chapter 435
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 63; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1804, Chapter 436
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 64; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1805, Chapter 437
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Management District No. 1; providing authority to levy an assessment, impose a tax, and issue bonds.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1807, Chapter 439
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the power and duties of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 52.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1864, Chapter 456
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 51, including powers related to the construction, maintenance, operation, and financing of roads or turnpikes.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1865, Chapter 457
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 53; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1866, Chapter 458
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Dickinson Management District No. 1; providing authority to impose an assessment, impose a tax, and issue bonds.
- 79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1882, Chapter 461
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 67; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
- 82nd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3821, Chapter 585
- Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to temporary directors and the continuation in existence of the Bolivar Yacht Basin Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 of Galveston County.
- 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.
- Bicycle
- Patent for a bicycle propelled by the front wheel. Illustrations included.
- Frame House.
- Patent for a new and improved frame house. This design consists of "[t]he combination, in a roof, of T-shaped caps or battens having in their depending tongues the transverse dovetail grooves, the roof-boards arranged above the grooves and below the horizontal and lateral arms of the said battens, and the purlins adapted to enter the grooves and grooved longitudinally to engage the said tongues" (lines 23-31).
- Improvement in Excavators
- Patent for "an improvement in excavating and dredging machines" (lines 12-13).
- Net for Crabbing and Fishing.
- Patent for a new and improved net for fishing and crabbing by using a trigger device that would automatically open the net’s “free end” fully and horizontally when the net is lowered on the bed floor of the river. After use, the net can be folded very compactly for easy transport. Illustration is included.
- Railroad-Rail.
- Patent for an improved railroad rail that is "composed of track or running rails proper and supplementary rails bolted to the track rails and having a laterally-projecting top portion which serves as a wheel guard or lateral brace for the track rails" (lines 14-19).
- Retort Hydrocarbon-Burner.
- Patent for improvements in retort-burners, to be used for any suitable and desired purposed and for any kind of oils by providing a "direct-combustion retort-burner that the combustion will be perfect and complete and the oil and air may be supplied thereto under a uniform pressure of high or low degree." (Lines 20-27) The retort-burner will be "readily assembled without the necessity of having special machinery for their manufacture or skilled workmen to put them together." (Lines 31-34) Illustration is included.
- Sewer-Trap.
- Patent for a sewer trap that prevents "the grease and other extraneous matter from sinks, and other fixtures in the house to effect a logment in the sewer, to the consequent obstruction and clogging up of the same" (lines 16-20). This makes sewers healthier and require less maintenance.
- Shoe Lace
- Patent for a shoe lace that does not become loose nor untie accidentally. Illustrations included.
- Shoe-Lace Fastener.
- Patent for a new and improved shoe lace fastener, including illustrations.
- Street Car.
- Patent for a new and improved street-car. This design "is to improve that kind of street or horse car the body of which is constructed to be reversed in its position upon the truck of the car; and the invention consists in the construction of the car-body, the truck upon which the body rests, the reversing devices comprising the holding and the releasing parts, and the combination of the brake devices with a reversible car-body" (lines 9-17).