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An Audit Report on Financial Transactions Associated with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita at the Lamar Higher Education Institutions and the Texas State University System

Description: Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining how the Lamar higher education institutions calculated and supported expenditure and revenue losses attributable to Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, and how the Texas State University System approved and allocated emergency funds.
Date: April 2009
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reconnaissance of Aransas Pass, Texas

Description: This map is a nautical chart showing the hydrography of the area in Texas around the Aransas Pass. The physical features are outlined and shaded in color (relief shown by soundings and contours). Depths are marked with lines and numbers in feet. Text in the upper left corner is labeled "Sailing Directions" and "Note"; the text gives explanatory details regarding the markings and measurements on the map. Scale 1:20,000.
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas: Rockport Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Rockport, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, shorelines, boundaries, oil wells, artesian wells/aquifers, windmills, pipelines, piers, lighthouses, shipwrecked sites, and landmarks. Includes red overprint of road classifications and a quadrangle location diagram. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1954
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas: Woodsboro Quadrangle

Description: Topographic quadrangle map of Woodsboro, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads and highways, water bodies, boundaries, railroads, pipelines, oil wells, windmills, airports, and landmarks. Includes red overprint of road classifications and a quadrangle location diagram. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1956
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Aranasa Co.

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Aransas County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:163,099] (4000 varas to 13/16 of an inch).
Date: 1896
Creator: Schutze, E.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Historic Marker Application: Baldwin-Brundrett House]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Baldwin-Brundett House, in Rockport, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, maps, and photographs.
Date: July 23, 2012
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

Caisson-Driver.

Description: Patent for an improved machine that sinks caissons into gravel or mud in order to make a foundation for breakwater, jetty, bridge, or similar purpose. It applies continuous and heavy pressure to the caisson during operation, and "is provided with a jet apparatus to force the sand and mud from within the caisson and cause it to settle around the outer portion of the same, thus holding it firmly in place, and which in general enables a caisson foundation to be laid with great facility and in a su… more
Date: April 4, 1893
Creator: Perrenot, Theodore F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Scouring Water-Ways.

Description: Patent for an improved apparatus for scouring water-ways by using water-discharge pipes and air-discharge pipes arranged at each side of the vessel. When “vessel is slowly moved forward while the water and air forcing pumps are working,..... direct force of the water-jets and air-jets will agitate and scatter and lift the dislodged particles and float them much higher and longer than would be the case were the water-jet pipes alone used.” (Lines 63-75) Illustration is included.
Date: March 31, 1891
Creator: Holden, Elbridge G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Plow

Description: Patent for "rotary plows for plowing land, preparing the land to receive the seed and cultivating the plants, which shall be convenient in use, effective in operation, and not liable to get out of order" (lines 19-23) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Tally, Thomas Jackson.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mosquito Bar Frame.

Description: Patent for a new and improved mosquito-bar frame. This design "relates to improvements in that class of mosquito-bar frames which are adapted to be placed above a bed, so as to support the mosquito-netting in a way to cover the bed and guard the occupants thereof; and the object of [the] invention is to produce an extremely simple frame which may be easily dropped into a horizontal position over the bed or as easily tipped up and made to slide behind the head-board, where it will be entirely ou… more
Date: April 12, 1892
Creator: Holden, Elbridge G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: LO96-006

Description: 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, Dan Morales, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification;Whether and if so ,under what procedures,the Aransas County Navigation District No1 may be dissolved(ID# 33955).
Date: January 19, 1996
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-0905

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Aransas County Navigation District to develop, maintain, and finance Rockport Beach Park. (RQ-0986-GA)
Date: January 12, 2012
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1227

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the commissioners' court to fill by appointment a vacancy on the governing board of Aransas County Navigation District No. 1.
Date: August 2, 1951
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-384

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 Article 978j, Vernon's Penal Code, repeal the effect of Article 952 1-10, Vernon's Penal Code as to the waters of Copano Bay, Mission Bay and connecting waters west of State Highway No. 35 in Aransas County.
Date: March 5, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-832

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 the Aransas County Tax Collector may issue "voting" poll tax receipts to certain residents of Aransas County under the facts stated.
Date: May 2, 1960
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-346

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, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of Game, Fish and Oyster Commission to pay for laying a sewerage line from their Marine Laboratory to a connection with the existing sewerage line of the City of Rockport, Texas, and a related question.
Date: August 15, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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