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Series Description

Constables' Reports, 1927-1931

 


CALL NUMBER:        S 538009


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

TITLE: Constables' reports

DATE: 1927-1931

VOLUME: 2.31 cubic ft.

ARRANGEMENT: Series arranged chronologically by year and thereunder alphabetically by constable.

SUMMARY SCOPE NOTE: This series documents the law enforcement activities of the members of the State Constabulary. In addition to weekly, monthly, and special reports of individual constables, this series also contains monthly and yearly summary statistical reports, gas and mileage reports, and insurance policies for automobiles used by the constabulary officers. Subjects include prohibition, wife and child abuse, blue laws, gambling and slot machines, and patent medicines.

INDEX/FINDING AID: Folder level container list available.

GENERAL NOTE: Records with a date earlier than 1927 are part of a file which 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.