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- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 121, Chapter 7
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the application of the open meetings law to certain health maintenance organizations.
- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 353, Chapter 8
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to tax increment financing under the Tax Increment Financing Act in certain cities that border Mexico.
- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 430, Chapter 9
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the availability of a legislative continuance in a judicial matter.
- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 868, Chapter 10
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the purpose, powers, and duties of Harris County Improvement District No. 1; authorizing the issuance of bonds.
- 81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 123
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to Honoring the recipients of the 2009 Texas Medal of Arts Awards.
- 81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 138
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to in memory of Orange Grove educator Roxie M. Fine.
- 81st Texas Legislature, House Concurrent Resolution, House Bill 163
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate relating to honoring artist George Rodrigue for his philanthropic work following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 78
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate congratulating Paul Qui of Austin on his achievements as a chef and restaurateur.
- 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 95
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate honoring the Greater Austin Crime Commission's Longhorn Leaders program on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.
- 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 157, Chapter 4
- Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the Parrie Haynes Trust.
- 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Concurrent Resolution 21
- Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate recognizing November 4-8, 2013, and November 3-7, 2014 as Municipal Courts Week.
- Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department Annual Report: 1974
- Report on juvenile delinquency in Bexar County for 1974 with referral statistics and accomplishments of the department for the year.
- Boring and Tenoning Machine.
- Patent for a new and improved combined hollow auger attachment and felly-boring machine. This design "relates to an improved felly-boring machine which is adapted with slight adjustment to co-operate with a hollow auger for forming the tenons on the spokes. [The] invention consists in the construction of the frame, the clamp for securing it to the spokes or felly-supports, and in the means for holding and adjusting the auger" (lines 14-21).
- Car Coupling.
- Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplings of that class which effect an automatic coupling by means of a gravity hook; and it consists in certain improvements in the construction and operation of the same" (lines 9-13).
- Case for Rural-Mail Carriers.
- Patent for a device to enable rural mail carriers to efficiently carry and store postal items for sale. The storage unit (device) is water-resistant to protect the items inside from inclement weather while delivering mail.
- Clothes Pin
- Patent for metallic clothes pins. Illustration included.
- Cotton-Chopper.
- Patent for a machine to thin and cultivate cotton plants without covering them with debris. Designed to be used with most cultivators and to be inexpensive to construct.
- Cotton-Press.
- Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and powerful plunger for a cotton-press that is directly controlled by the operator. The plunger is hydraulically powered, the pressure being created by steam.The plunger's parts are arranged so the power is multiplied.
- Crate.
- Patent for a crate which can be knocked down and folded, including illustrations. The crate is designed with novel features.
- Delinter
- Patent is for a Delinter. It provides a means for mechanical separation of cotton seeds from fiber as a new way of cotton ginning.
- Device for Slicing Fish.
- Patent for new and useful improvements to a device for slicing fish into smooth and even slices, including illustrations.
- Dry Closet.
- Patent for a new design that improves "construction, utility, and efficiency of dry closets"(lines 10-11) that would also allow the use of an attachment specifically for dry closet seats. Includes design for mesh cloth to capture waste.
- Gangway.
- Patent for a ramp for use by the Army in loading farm animals and wagons on train cars and other transports. This gangway is designed in sections to be adaptable for different needs and to be collapsible for storage and easy transportation.
- Gate.
- Patent for a crank-armed, lever operated gate.
- Gin-Saw Cleaner.
- Patent for a cleaner for cotton-gin saws for "an improved construction of cleaner adapted to be used in connection with saw-cylinders on different kinds of gins" (lines 10-13) and "which may be easily fitted and held securely in position in a detachable manner" (lines 18-19).
- Hammock or Swing.
- Patent for a new and improved hammock. This design consists in "the combination of a suspended canopy, consisting of a hoop provided with screw-eyes and having a textile covering and a mosquito-netting secured thereto and depending therefrom, with a basket consisting of a hoop, a suitably-constructed bottom, a cushion, and a guard . . . and supporting-ropes secured at their lower portions to the basket and to the guard, and having snap-hooks at their upper ends adapted to engage the screw-eyes in the hoop of the canopy" (lines 5-15).
- Horse Detacher.
- Patent for a new and improved horse detacher. This design "consists in two longitudinally-movable rods or bolts which are attached to the front axle and are adapted to engage the eyes of the thill-clips; the levers connected at their lower ends to the adjacent ends of the said rods or bolts; a ring embracing and adapted to slide on the upper arms of the said levers whereby they may be drawn together to disengage the outer ends of the rods or bolts from the thill-clips; the band or strap connected to the said ring, and means whereby the said strap may be drawn by the driver of the vehicle" (lines 13-25).
- Improvement in Car Brakes and Starters
- Patent for improvements in rail road-car breaks, starters, and checkers. "The nature of the invention consists in certain constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts" (lines 19-21).
- Improvement in Scaffold-Clamps.
- Patent for a reusable scaffold clamp for assembling builders' scaffolds, eliminating the need for nails or bolts.
- Journal of the Senate of Texas: 83rd Legislature, Regular Session, Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- Proceedings of the Senate of Texas for the forty-sixth day of the Regular session of the 83rd Legislature documenting legislation, reports, discussions, votes, and points-of-order.
- Nut-Lock.
- Patent for new qualities of nut-lock security, efficiency, and convenience, including illustrations.
- Nut-Lock
- Patent for locking-washer "so that the nuts will not come off or be knocked from the bolts" (Lines 8-9) including illustrations.
- Pencil-Holder.
- Patent for a pencil-holder designed to quickly attach to pencils or pens of different sizes, including illustrations. This pencil-holder features a clip which clamps onto the edge of one's pocket to prevent the pencil from falling out or damaging the pocket.
- Permutation Lock.
- Patent for a new and improved combination lock. This design "consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the elongated case, its longitudinally slotted and notched partitions, the boltway over the partitions, reciprocating notched and perforated slides, and adjustable pins or studs engaging the perforations and projecting into the slots of the partitions, the rack-slide, drop-bolt, and graduated knob carrying the pinion" (lines 20-28).
- Rail-Joint.
- Patent for a new design of rail joints in which headed bolts and wedge plate have keyhole slots, including with illustrations.
- Reamer.
- Patent for a reamer with a hexagonal shaped body and shell, central hub, a series of plates, springs, and metal dogs. Used for reaming well drilling tubes, which are used to drill artesian wells and deep water, and for cleaning out the reamer's own interior.
- Rod-Lifting Tool.
- Patent for a gripping device for large metal rods.
- Stalk-Cutter
- Patent for a tool that can be attached to cultivators and harrows to make stalk and vine cultivation more efficient.
- Stump Puller.
- Patent for a new and improved stump puller. This design's object "is to provide a simple, cheap, and effective stump-puller, readily portable and easily operated by one man and a horse; and to that end the novelty consists in the construction of the same" (lines 10-15).
- Sulky-Plow
- Patent for the design of a plow that can "overcome obstacles without injury to"(lines 14-15) to the machine. It also includes a new design for a plow foot spring, in addition to an element that allows the foot spring to be adjusted quickly by there operator.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-64
- 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Computation of Inheritance Taxes on Royalty Interest of Life Tenant Under Submitted Facts
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-65
- 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Texas Liquor Control Act prohibits the advertising of alcoholic beverages by employment of handbills where such handbills are delivered on privately owned property.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: C-66
- 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, Waggoner Carr, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Interpretation of Article 2372k, V.C.S., in the light of the submitted facts
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: DM-19
- 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: Disposition of proceeds generated by inmates’ use of pay telephones in a county jail (RQ-2)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0542
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether abandoned vehicles seized by the county sheriff must be disposed of pursuant to Transportation Code chapter 683 or Code of Criminal Procedure article 18.17.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0619
- 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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether Government Code section 614.122 requires a county attorney to issue identification cards to unpaid investigators of his office (RQ-0641-GA)
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-591
- 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; Method of selection of Chairman of the Texas Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: H-592
- 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 upon presentation of a petition a county is required to call an election to invalidate bonds already authorized.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-484
- 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 House Bill No. 620, Acts 1985, 69th Leg., supersedes articles 6674h and 6674i, V.T.C.S., which requires competitive bidding.
- Texas Attorney General Opinion: JM-485
- 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 an individual may serve simultaneously as constable and jailer.