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- Automatic Air-Brake Coupling.
- Patent for "a new and useful improvements in automatic air-brake couplers to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, the invention also relates to improvements in automatic air-brake couplings in cars". (lines 5-10) including instructions and illustrations.
- Baling-Press
- Patent for "improvements in baling presses: and it consists in a press having a suitable frame, a box mounted thereon having a hinged front and a hinged side." (lines 11-14) including instructions and illustrations.
- Beef Tenderer.
- Patent for a new and improved meat tenderizer. This design consists in "the combination, with the triangular end plates having the bearing-notches, the detachable connecting-bar provided with the threaded ends and shoulders, the thumb-nuts, the smooth rollers, and the coiled springs, of the crank-handle and the [other] roller provided with the teeth having square flat faces and flat sides at right angles to said faces and arranged in aligned longitudinal series and spirally arranged circumferentially, the areas of the teeth being one-fourth of an inch" (lines 7-18).
- Bridle Rod
- Patent for a bridle rod that will be longitudinally adjustable for taking up the space that would be likely to occur between the switch points and the rails so that both of the switch points will, when the switch is operated, move to the proper position for presenting a smooth and even surface for the wheel flange of the railway rolling stock when the same pass over the switch.
- Chapter 26 - Substantive Rules Applicable to Telecommunications Service Providers.
- This document provides information on an amended telecom rule that is applicable to telecommunications service providers.
- Coin-Holder
- Patent for " a new coin holder that holds coins of different denominations in given amounts for circulating purposes," (lines 8-9) including instructions and illustrations.
- Corn-Cropping Tool.
- Patent for a manual corn harvesting tool in which a curved cutting knife is secured to a metal plate which fits into the hand(s) of the operator and is secured to the hand(s) by a strap and buckle. Use of this apparatus would replace the two separate actions of grasping the corn with one hand and cutting it with the other.
- Credit Union Department Newsletter, Number 07-13, July 2013
- Newsletter of the Texas Credit Union Department containing departmental news and announcements, deadlines, and other information of importance to credit unions. It includes information on upcoming changes to the Credit Union Act, CAMEL Ratings, publication deadlines, and approved applications.
- Cultivator.
- Patent for a cultivator attachment which is designed to be "a guard to protect the young growing crop from being covered by dirt when it is being cultivated." (Lines 14-16) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Cultivator Attachment.
- Patent for " agricultural implements, more especially harrows or cultivators ; and it has for its objects a device which can be conveniently attached to the standards or footpieces of any cultivator and which may hold or carry different numbers of small plows or harrow-teeth for the cultivation of any crops or at any place where a small harrow is needed;" (lines 7-15) including illustrations.
- Focus Report, Volume 77, Number 22, July 2002
- Report on issues surrounding the payment of physicians and health-care providers by insurers in Texas.
- Hay Press.
- Patent for improvements to a hay press to be manufactured easily and cheaply while maintaining its effectiveness in pressing hay into bales.
- Health & Wellness Committee Five Year Analysis 2013-2017
- This report This report describe factual data and practical guidance regarding key areas of health and wellness to educate and facilitate the development of action guides by individuals and departments.
- House Investigative Committee on the Robb Elementary Shooting: Texas House Of Representatives Interim Report 2022
- Report outlining facts related to the attack at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2020 including the facilities and the law enforcement response, based on immediately-available sources (without interviews or documentation from ongoing investigations).
- Improvement in Door-Checks.
- Patent for "a device for holding the doors in open position, which is readily applied to the door and worked without noise or jamming; and the invention consists of a holder or knob, with recessed front end, attached to the base-board, and of a counter-sunk door plate or case provided with a rubber block, that binds on the recessed part of the holder to retain the door in open position." (Lines 10-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Gang-Plows.
- Patent for improvements to the gang-plow consisting of "an adjustable frame, within which two or more ordinary plows can be arranged to form the gang, said frame being constructed so as to enable one set of plows to run deep, while the other set can be made to run shallow." (Lines 15-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Hoe-Handles.
- Patent for the improvement of hoe-handle tightening devices, including illustrations.
- Improvement in Plows.
- Patent for "a plow which will effect a clean severance of the sod on the land side when operating in heavy, tenacious soil, and which will prevent the accumulation of rubbish against the edge of the mold-board or standard." (Lines 6-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Riding-Plows.
- Patent for "an improved riding or sulky plow which shall be so constructed that the plow may be readily lowered into, raised from, and adjusted to run at any desired depth in the ground, and which may be adjusted to take or leave land, and to hold the carriage level when both wheels are running upon unplowed land, and when one wheel is running in a furrow." (Lines 14-22) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Improvement in Sand-Conveyers.
- Patent for a machine for "taking up and conveying sand into a suitable receptacle". Patent for breaking up sand and transferring it into a receptacle by means of circular cutters, conducting apron, inclined plate.
- Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Second Called Session, Wednesday, July 17, 2013
- Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the third day of the Second Called session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Lawn-Rocker.
- Patent for a lawn rocker improvement that provides swing and is durable and inexpensive.
- Mail Box Signal
- Patent for a mail box signal. Illustration included.
- Means For Automatically Inflating Pneumatic Tires.
- Patent for new and improved means for "pumping air into the tires and actuated from the wheel when the latter is in motion" (lines 18-20), including illustrations.
- Overshot Fishing-Tool
- Patent for improvements to overshot fishing tools, particularly for the use of removing, fishing out, "tools, parts of tools and other articles from" bored or drilled wells (lines 20-21). These improvements are designed to be manufactured cheaply.
- Pump.
- Patent for pump that allows for ease of maneuvering, via balanced operating mechanism; as well as ease of access and repacking, via a simpler valve.
- Quilting Frame.
- Patent for a new and improved quilting frame. This design "consists of an improved arrangement of apparatus for suspending the quilting-frame from overhead rods, on which it is made to traverse for passing the quilt along the sewing-machine to be quilted, the essential object being to contrive a simple means of shifting the frame with relation to the machine and for placing it diagonally and for turning it around from side to side, so that when the quilt is very heavy one half can be quilted, and then the quilt turned and the other half quilted on the other side" (lines 7-18).
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for an improved rail joint that utilizes an interlocking system, thus eliminating the need for connections using nuts and bolts, resulting in a smoother, continuous rail.
- Soot-Preventing Composition.
- Patent for "an improved soot-preventing composition, which is used by being sprinkled over the coal and which furnished a more complete combustion of the carbon-particles carried along by the products of combustion, so that the deposit of soot into smoke-pipes, flues and chimneys is prevented from forming cinders and large clinkers." (Lines 9-17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
- Speed-Controlling Mechanism for Motor-Vehicles.
- Patent for a device that automatically closes the throttle to slow the speed of a motor vehicle when necessary. The device is designed to respond to vehicle load, road surface, and a predetermined speed limit.
- Stalk Cutter.
- Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists in "a stalk and weed cutter, the combination, with the oblique side knives, of the transverse slotted bars, springs, and the guide and pressure bars having vertical arms passing through the slots of the transverse bars, and connected to said springs . . . [and] the runner-frame, having oblique wings and front and side knives, the standards and bar, cross-bars, cross-springs, and adjustable pressure and guide bars" (lines 80-92).
- Stalk Cutter.
- Patent for a new and improved stalk cutter. This design consists "[i]n a stalk-cutter, the combination of the frame, having the central longitudinal parallel bars, slotted laterally and having the space between them, the sliding block, pivoted slotted knives, pivoted arms, and recessed side sills, and the pivoted lever and rack" (lines 77-83).
- Stock-Weaner.
- Patent for improvements in stock weaners. The invention is used for weaning cattle and "may be applied to either the parent or the offspring to prevent abstraction of the lacteal fluid from the udder by either. The purpose of the invention is to devise a device of the character and for the purpose aforesaid which will be simple, effective, light, not interfere with grazing or feeding, and which can be easily and quickly placed in position without the use of tools and adapted to be readily removed and applied to another animal" (lines 12-22). Includes specifications and illustrations.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-350
- 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 L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether it is permissible under the prevailing Wage Statute, Art. 5159a, to include fringe benefits.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-643
- 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 L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of commissioners court to reduce the salary of a county attorney after the budget hearing.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-523
- 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the city of Austin may assess a capital recovery fee on state construction projects
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-524
- 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether purchases for a county health district must be made by the county purchasing agent
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-525
- 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a person appointed as conservator, supervisor, or liquidating agent under article 852a, V.T.C.S., is a state employee for purposes of chapter 104, of the Civil Practices and Remedies Code
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-752
- 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, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Legality of a contract between a physician and a referral service
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: LA-55
- 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, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Dual Employment -State college professor as Assistant District Attorney
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-260
- 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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners Court of Val Verde County to transfer certain property to the Val Verde County Hospital Authority created pursuant to the provisions of Article 4494r, Vernon's Civil Statutes.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-433
- 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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Construction of Article 4513, V.C.S., as amended by H.B. 358, Acts of the 61st Legislature, Regular Session, 1969
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-434
- 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, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether certain feeding demonstrations using white rats in which the diet of one group or rats is unbalanced constitutes the offense of curelty to animals, as defined by Article 182, Vernon's Civil Statutes and are experiments requiring compliance with said statutes.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3006
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Swindling-worthless check cases-venue.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3320
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Board under subsection (m) of House Bill 688, Forty-sixth Legislature, to purchase bonds at a premium for cancellation and increase the annual sinking fund requirement out of the interest saved to absorb the premium paid.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3482
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: If a defendant is brought before the court and enters a plea of guilty, or is tried by a jury and convicted, and the judgement is prepared and signed by the county judge, can the defendant after the signing of the judgement execute a bond to stay his judgment for the period or for a less period than that set forth in article 698, C.C.F? Also related questions under Article 698, C.C.P.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3708
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Procedure for State Board of Control where contractors for state supplies make default in deliveries.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-3796
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the Grand Saline Independent School District require a corporation owning a salt mine in said District to pay taxes upon the proven and developed underground salt deposits?
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4663
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not a person must continue to reside in an independent school district to serve legally as tax assessor-collector as well as secretary of said district.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-4671
- 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, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Foreclosure by assignee under Article 5328, Revised Statutes, 1925, of State's lien for unpaid principal and interest due on Public Free School Lands.