State Agencies File, 1927-1931

CALL NUMBER:        S 538002

CREATOR: Governor John G. Richards  (1927-1931)

TITLE: State agencies file

DATE: 1927-1931

VOLUME: 4.15 cubic ft.

ARRANGEMENT: Series arranged alphabetically by agency and thereunder chronologically.

SUMMARY SCOPE NOTE: This series documents the governor's dealings with the various officers, agencies, boards, departments, colleges, institutions, and authorities of state government. The series contains correspondence, reports, miscellaneous applications and recommendations, accounts of disbursements, and orders. Some documents reflect the governor's function as member or chairman ex officio of various state boards. This series also documents referrals from the governor's office to other officers and departments.

Subjects include colleges and universities, education, penal institutions, health, mental health, juvenile delinquency, labor relations, strikes, agriculture, business, industry, roads and highways, banking, the state military, state finance, game and fish, medical education, and education of mentally handicapped children.

INDEX/FINDING AID: Folder level container list available.

GENERAL NOTE: Records with a date earlier than 1927 are part of a file carried forward from Governor McLeod, the previous governor.

LINKING NOTE: A separate record contains a biography of Governor John G. Richards.

HIERARCHICAL NOTE: Forms part of the records of Governor John Gardiner Richards.