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Float Valve

Description: Patent for improvements on float valves that will "resupply the tank with water when it is withdrawn to a certain lower level and also operate to cut off the inflow when the water will have reached a predetermined height in the trough" (lines 14-18).
Date: October 21, 1902
Creator: Mayfield, Jess Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas: Rock Springs Sheet

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Rock Springs, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing parts of Kimble, Edwards, and Sutton Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, ranches, rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown by contours (interval 25 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1949
Creator: Thompson, A. H.; Goode, R. U.; Urquhart, Charles F. & Wallace, H. S.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Sutton County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Sutton County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks of land, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:242,424] (5000 varas to 11/16 of an inch).
Date: 1898
Creator: Appell, P. F. & Davis, G. W.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Automatic Railroad or Farm Gate.

Description: Patent for an improved automatic railroad or farm gate that uses the "weight of the car or wagon upon an operating-board and automatically close[s] after the train has passed, and which can also be opened by hand when it is desired to let a single person pass through, either upon foot or horseback" (lines 20-25).
Date: October 4, 1892
Creator: Benson, Joseph Robinson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Car Coupling.

Description: Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design is "to provide a coupler . . . capable of being manipulated from the top or side of freight-cars and from the side or platform of passenger-cars" (lines 8-12). It consists, "with a draw-head provided with an upwardly-extending post, and a lever fulcrumed in said post, of a lock-link consisting of a horizontal body portion and a hook-extension at its rear end, and a lift-link provided with a nose at one extremity, the opposite… more
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Franks, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bed Bottom and Brace.

Description: Patent for an invention to "simplify and improve the construction of bedsteads and provide efficient and durable means for securing the slats to the bedstead and for securing the parts of the bedstead together," (lines 11-15) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 15, 1891
Creator: Lightfoot, Walter Hamond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-791

Description: 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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Does the Commissioners' Court of Sutton County have the power of eminent domain to condemn land for flood control easements where land is situated in an adjacent county and related questions.
Date: January 27, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1105

Description: 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, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Sutton County, as a user of "special fuels," must execute the bond required by Art. 10.10(1), Title 122A, Taxation-General, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, to secure payment of taxes due the State of Texas on such fuel.
Date: August 3, 1961
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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