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Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-757

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: Authorization of the State Building Commission to pay the City of Austin for paving its half of the existing thoroughfare and the additional five feet (approximate) inside the State property line in order to render the access completely finished up to… more
Date: December 4, 1959
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Floyd Payne

Description: 2 men wearing protest banners: "CP&L Electric Co. is Unfair". Standing in front of the state capitol building, holding dollar bills fanned in their hands.
Date: February 4, 1959
Creator: Douglass, Neal
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Letter from T. N. Carswell to Representative Truett Latimer and Senator David Ratliff - May 4, 1959]

Description: A letter addressed to Representative Latimer and Senator Ratliff, Austin, Texas, from T. N. Carswell, dated May 4, 1959. Carswell suggests to Latimer and Ratliff that a tax bill be written to reduce the state debt, but to do so they will have to "clean out the mess there" addressing specifically the members with outside clients seeking special favors and legislation by and for organized groups, any group, every group.
Date: May 4, 1959
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Letter from Joseph L. Brown to Truett Latimer, April 4, 1959]

Description: Letter from Joseph L. Brown to Truett Latimer asking for his support of House Bill 321, the Secrest-Cox Bill regarding flexible rates on auto insurance. He also writes that it is unreasonable that long-distance intrastate calls are more expensive than some interstate calls and he would like to see the Legislature create a state utility commission to control utility rates.
Date: April 4, 1959
Creator: Brown, Joseph L.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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