LEGISLATURE:

An Inventory of Its Records of Interim Commissions and Committees at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

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	Creator:	Minnesota. Legislature.
	Title:	Records of interim commissions and committees.
	Dates:	1942-1990.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Minutes, reports, accounting and administrative files, and other related records of various interim commissions and committees.
	Quantity:	43.75 cubic feet (43 boxes and 1 half-height oversize box).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Topics covered include occupational diseases, vocational and higher education, veterans, dairy products, livestock, aviation research, workmen's compensation, tuberculosis facilities, agricultural laws, educational television, water conservation and pollution, drainage, flood control, the state's civil service program, taxes, highway taxes and laws, alcoholism, Indian affairs, public welfare, railroads, warehouses, state building code, handicapped and gifted children, state flag, school aids and reorganization. Other topics include withholding tax, conservation laws, handicapped employment, housing discrimination and segregation, local government, municipal annexation and laws, petroleum taxes, osteopathy, Upper Mississippi River reservoirs, Seaway Port Authority, Civil War and Sioux Indian Uprising Centennial Commission, Duluth-Superior harbors, election laws, forestry and forest land ownership, public employee-employer relations, Minnesota River Valley redevelopment, state hospitals, Northeastern Minnesota economic problems, hospital construction, home remedies sales, 1964 World's Fair, judiciary, civil administration, teacher tenure and certification, and injury compensation.

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ARRANGEMENT

The records are arranged chronologically by year; thereunder by name of commission.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Legislature. Records of Interim Commissions and Committees. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number(s): None; 990-132; 993-39; 994-15; 994-93

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 001714014

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


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117.I.1.2F	1942: Interim Commission on Occupational Diseases:
		Established by House Concurrent Resolution No. 11 of the 1941 Legislature to study the issues of occupational diseases and to make recommendations regarding amendments to the statute specifying occupational diseases under the workmen's compensation act.
		Report, January 1943.
		Proceedings, 1942. 1 volume.
		Proceedings, February 27, March 20, and April 9.
		Statistics.
		Compilation.


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117.I.1.1B	1949-1951: Commission on Vocational and Higher Education:
		Commission reports:
			Vocational Education in Minnesota: Its Role and Interrelationships, [1949?].
			Our Growing Challenge, 1951.
			Our Growing Challenge, undated.
				Several draft versions.
			Better Education for More People, 1953.
				Summary report with recommendations and endorsements.
			Higher Education Looks Ahead, 1953.
				Several versions including final report.
		Review of Commission minutes, July 1949-June 1950.
		Minutes, July 1949-March 1951. 2 folders.
		Six Potential Studies [notes].
		Tomorrow's Resources.
			Several versions.
		Vocational and general.
			Assorted background data and statistics.
		Public Elementary and Secondary.
			Assorted statistics.
		Minnesota Private Trade Schools...
			Lists, notes, statistics.
		Teacher Training Departments: History, Legislation, Statistics.
			Primarily a typescript historical compilation.
		College data. 2 folders.
			Faculty and enrollment statistics.
		Mankato Vocational School.
		St. Cloud Vocational School.
		Thief River Falls Vocational School.
		Winona Vocational School.
		Vocational pamphlet outline.
		[Enrollment data and projections]. 3 folders.
		Questionnaire and Results [regarding educational priorities].
		Excerpts (presumably from various publications).
		Teacher Supply and Demand in U.S.: Report of the 1950 National Teacher Supply and Demand Study.
		Memmer Study: A Plan for the Location of Secondary Schools in Minnesota, Education Department, October 1950.
		Apprenticeships.
			Lists and other data on programs in various vocational fields.
		Secondary School Vocational Education, 1948-1950.
		Vocational Division [Department of Education] Statistical Reports, 1949-1952. 4 items in 1 folder.
		Itinerant vocational teachers.
		Kelsey material: Photographs of graphs and charts.
		Higher Education in Minnesota/T. J. Berning, Chapters 1-18. 3 folders.
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108.F.1.7B-1		[Data on individual schools]. 2 items.
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117.I.1.2F		Miscellaneous background material, 1947-1952. 2 folders.
		Higher Education in Minnesota/Minnesota Commission on Higher Education, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1950.


1949-1950: Veterans Preference in Public Employment Commission:
	Report, 1951.
		Draft and final copy.
	Minutes, December 1949-December 1950.
	Findings and Recommendations.
	Exhibits A-T.
	Administration files, 1949-1951.
	Background materials. 2 folders.
		Civil service laws, assorted resolutions and statistics, transcript of January 14, 1950 Veterans Committee hearing.


1951-1952: Dairy Products and Livestock Interim Commission [Interim Commission to Study the Laws of the State of Minnesota Relating to the Production, Processing and Sale of Dairy Products and the Production and Marketing of Livestock]:
	Miscellaneous records, 1951-1953. Multiple items in folder.
		1953 report; related miscellany; and a few items regarding Agriculture Department organization and programs, apparently from a Legislative Research Committee subcommittee.


1951-1953: Interim Committee on Aviation Research:
	Aviation in Minnesota: A Progress Report, September 1952.
	Report, February 1953.
		Several versions of the report and distribution lists.
	Considerations, Data and Reasoning by Which the Subscribers Arrived at the Conclusions Expressed in the Committee Report, February 27, 1953.
	Supplemental Material to 1953 Report, February 27, 1953.
	Correspondence, minutes, and miscellany, July 1951-May 1953. 4 folders.
		Minutes, letters, memoranda, expenditure data, and some background materials; interfiled in roughly reverse chronological order.
	Background materials.
	Salaries and personal services, 1952-1953.
		Invoices submitted by committee clerk, Katherine Hart, and University of Minnesota contract personnel.


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117.I.1.3B	1951-1952: Interim Commission/Committee on Workmen's Compensation:
		Established under Laws 1951, Chapter 708, to study laws relating to workmen's compensation and prepare a bill for revising and codifying those laws.
		Report to 1953 Legislature.
		Minutes and miscellany, July 1951-December 1952.
			Minutes of act authorizing the commission, and amendments to the workmen's compensation law proposed by the Minnesota State Federation of Labor.
		Hearing transcripts, 1951-1952. 7 volumes.
			October 29, November 19, 1951; January 7, 28, March 10, May 14, September 3, 1952.


1951-1952: Tuberculosis Facilities Commission:
	Created under Laws 1951, Chapter 462 to survey the state's facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, and control of tuberculosis, and to report its findings and recommendations to the 1953 Legislature.
	Report, Tuberculosis in Minnesota, January 1951.
	Laws.
		Copies and excerpts from the law establishing the commission, related legislation, suggestions for the commission's work, and list of members. Also information on tuberculosis legislation in other states.
	Minutes, December 1951-January 1953.
	Minutes, miscellaneous, 1951-1952.
		Committee on Tuberculosis of the Minnesota State Medical Association (January-February 1951), Care and Treatment Subcommittee conference (November 1952), and report of the Subcommittee on Sanatorium Information.
	Correspondence and memoranda, 1950-1953.
	Heath Department statistics.
		On tuberculosis in Minnesota generally and among Indians in particular, with related information and recommendations for the Commission's work.
	Background information.
	Sanatoria annual reports.
		Annual reports of Ah-Gwah-Ching (1950/1951), Buena Vista (1951), and Mineral Springs (1950) sanatoria. Also information on the Riverside Sanatorium District school certification program (1950-1952) and comparative costs statement (1945-1951) for Nopeming Sanatorium.


1953-1954: Agricultural Laws Study Commission [Interim Commission to Study and Evaluate Minnesota Laws Dealing with the Production, Processing, Marketing, and Sale of Agricultural and Dairy Products and with the Breeding and Marketing of Livestock and with Soil Conservation]:
	Established by House Concurrent Resolution No. 21 of the 1953 Legislature, to study the laws and make recommendations for their improvement.
	Records, 1953-1955. 3 folders.
		Report to the 1955 Legislature, minutes (September 1953-September 1954), and a few miscellaneous background items and clippings.


1953-1954: Educational Television Commission:
	Background files, 1953-1954. 3 folders.
		Background material on educational television in Minnesota and in other states and nationally, including a copy of the enabling legislation establishing the Commission (Senate File 951, 1953 Legislature). No actual Commission records are present.


1953-1954: Interim Commission on Water Conservation, Drainage and Flood Control:
	Report, 1955.
	Report, Part II: Basic Data, November 1954.
	Minutes, September 1953-November 1954.
	Administrative files.
		Commission rules, appropriation voucher, and Conservation Department report.
	Background materials.


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117.I.1.4F	1953-1955: Interim Committee on the [State] Civil Service Program:
		Established by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 22 of the 1953 Legislature to study the state civil service program and its administration and make recommendations for its improvement.
		Authorizing documents.
			Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 22, committee rules, and a journal voucher for the Committee's appropriation.
		Report. 2 folders.
		Minutes/transcripts of proceedings. 21 folders.
			Includes some agenda items.
			1953. 7 folders.
				Includes a list of all committee meetings and witnesses (June 20) and follow-up submissions (October 22-30).
			1954. 13 folders.
				Includes audograph tapes and hectograph duplicating masters (June 4-5) and hectograph duplicating master (October 1-2).
			1955
		Legislation, 1955.
			Three bills submitted by the Committee to the Minnesota Legislature as follow-up to its report.
		Financial data.
			Abstract of expenditures and vouchers for the employment and salary of Executive Secretary Frank V. Moulton and Secretary Margaret R. Boyes.
		Circulated material. 3 folders.
			Background materials relating to civil service in general, the Minnesota civil service system, and civil service in other states, circulated to all committee.
		Subjects and recommendations.
			A compilation of background items and civil service recommendations, organized by topic; kept by Senator Magnus Wefald.
		Publications received [from other states].
			Informational copies of title pages.
		Civil Service Assembly, Central Regional Conference (Duluth), May 23-26, 1954.
			Typescript notes and a few background items from Committee members' attendance.
		Miscellaneous background materials.
		Minnesota civil service forms (compilation of sample copies).
		Veterans preference.


		Correspondence (unorganized), 1953-1955. 1 folder.


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117.I.1.5B		Correspondence (unorganized), 1953-1955. 4 folders.


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117.I.1.7B	1953-1954:
		Forestry Study.
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117.I.1.8F		Forestry Study.
		Forestry Study: International material received.
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117.J.1.4F		Tax Study.
		Highway Study.


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117.I.2.1B	1955-1956:
		Agricultural Laws.
		Alcoholism.
		Indian Affairs.
		Forestry Study.
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117.I.2.2F		Forestry Study.
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117.I.2.3B		Highway Tax Distribution.
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117.I.2.4F		Public Welfare Study.
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117.I.2.5B		Railroad and Warehouse Study.
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117.J.1.5B		State Building Code.
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117.J.1.6F		Handicapped Children.
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117.J.1.7B		State Flag Commission.
		School Aids and Reorganization.
		Veterans Compensation.
		Withholding Tax.


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117.I.2.6F	1957-1958:
		Agricultural Problems.
		Conservation Laws.
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117.I.2.7B		Employment of Handicapped Persons.
		Highway Laws.
		Housing Discrimination.
		Indian Affairs.
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117.I.2.8F		Higher Education.
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117.I.2.9B		Local Government Fiscal Problems.
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117.I.2.10F		Lower Court Study.
		Municipal Annexation.
		Petroleum Taxes.
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117.I.3.1B		Osteopathy.
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117.I.3.2F		Osteopathy.
		Public Welfare Laws.
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117.I.3.3B		Upper Mississippi Reservoirs.
		Water Pollution.
		Seaway Port Authority.
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117.I.3.4F		Temporary State Building Code.


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117.I.3.5B	1959-1960:
		Agricultural Problems.
		Civil War and Sioux Indian Uprising Centennial.
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117.I.3.6F		County and Township Governments.
		Duluth-Superior Harbors.
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117.I.3.7B		Education.
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117.I.3.8F		Election Laws.
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117.I.3.9B		Forest Resources and Forest Land Ownership.
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117.I.3.10F		Forest Resources and Forest Land Ownership.
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117.I.4.1B		Forest Resources and Forest Land Ownership.
			Highways.
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117.I.4.4F		Indian Affairs.
		Municipal Laws.
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117.I.4.5B		Mentally Retarded, Handicapped and Gifted Children Problems.
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117.I.4.6F		Public Employee-Employer Relations.
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117.I.4.7B		Public Employee-Employer Relations.
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117.I.4.8F		Seaway Port Authority.
		Upper Mississippi Reservoir.
		Minnesota River Valley Redevelopment.
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117.I.4.9B		Iron Range State Hospital Feasibility.


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117.I.4.9B	1959, 1961:
		Public Retirement Study.


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117.I.4.10F	1961-1962:
		Elective County Officials Compensation in Minnesota.
		Housing Discrimination and Segregation.
		Agricultural Subcommittee.


	1963-1964:
		Highways.
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117.J.1.1B		Northeastern Minnesota Economic Problems.
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117.J.1.2F		State Advisory Committee on Hospital Construction.
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117.J.1.3B		Elections.
		Sale of Home Remedies.
		World's Fair.


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117.J.2.1B	1967-1968:
		Administrative Rules, Regulations, procedures, and Practices.
		Senate Joint Committee of Judiciary and Civil Administration.


		1971-1972:
			Judiciary: Subcommittee on Judicial procedure.
			Senate Education Committee: Subcommittee on Teacher Tenure and Certification.
			Reconversion Study Commission.


		1973-1977:
			Joint Coordinating Committee/Legislative Coordinating Commission. 2 folders.


		1987-1989:
			Tax Study Commission: Minutes and correspondence.


1989-1990:
	Injury Compensation Study Commission. 3 folders.
		Correspondence, minutes, handouts, and notices.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Aeronautics -- Research -- Minnesota.; Agricultural laws and legislation -- Minnesota.; Alcoholism -- Minnesota.; Annexation (Municipal government) -- Minnesota.; Building laws -- Minnesota.; Children with disabilities -- Minnesota.; Civil service -- Minnesota.; Conservation of natural resources -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.; Courts -- Minnesota.; Dairy products -- Minnesota.; Discrimination in housing -- Minnesota.; Drainage -- Minnesota.; Education, Higher -- Minnesota.; Educational television stations -- Minnesota.; Election law -- Minnesota.; Employee-management relations in government -- Minnesota.; Flags -- Minnesota.; Flood control -- Minnesota.; Forests and forestry -- Minnesota.; Gifted children -- Minnesota.; Government aid to education -- Minnesota.; Harbors -- Minnesota -- Duluth.; Harbors -- Wisconsin -- Superior.; Highway law -- Minnesota.; Hospital buildings -- Minnesota -- Design and construction.; Indians of North America -- Government relations.; Legislative bodies -- Minnesota -- Committees.; Livestock -- Minnesota.; Local government -- Minnesota.; Occupational diseases -- Minnesota.; Ordinances, Municipal -- Minnesota.; Osteopathic medicine -- Minnesota.; People with disabilities -- Employment -- Minnesota.; Petroleum -- Taxation -- Minnesota.; Public welfare -- Minnesota.; Railroads -- Minnesota.; Reservoirs -- Minnesota.; Sanatoriums -- Minnesota.; Schools -- Centralization -- Minnesota.; State hospitals -- Minnesota.; Taxation -- Minnesota.; Teachers -- Certification -- Minnesota.; Teachers -- Tenure -- Minnesota.; Traditional medicine -- Minnesota.; Transportation, Automotive -- Taxation -- Minnesota.; Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- Minnesota.; Veterans -- Minnesota.; Vocational education -- Minnesota.; Warehouses -- Minnesota.; Water conservation -- Minnesota.; Water -- Pollution -- Minnesota.; Withholding tax -- Minnesota.; Workers' compensation -- Minnesota.

Organizations:: Duluth Seaway Port Authority.; Minnesota. Legislature -- Committees.; Minnesota Civil War and Sioux Uprising Centennial Commission.

Meetings:: New York World's Fair (1964-1965)

Places:: Mississippi River.; Minnesota River (S.D. and Minn.); Arrowhead Region (Minn.) -- Economic conditions.

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