South Carolina Archives
Series Description

Current Subjects File, 1927-1931

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

TITLE: Current subjects file

DATE: 1927-1931

VOLUME: 2.31 cubic ft. and 1.00 item

ARRANGEMENT: Series arranged alphabetically by subject.

SUMMARY SCOPE NOTE: Created as part of the filing system instituted in the governor's office in 1917, this series was designed to hold unique, non-recurrent records and records which, although recurrent, were created at erratic or widely separated intervals.

This series contains correspondence about anniversary celebrations, including the 250th anniversary (sesqui-bicentennial) of the city of Charleston; monuments and memorials; the 1928 Democratic National Convention and presidential campaign; natural disasters and disaster relief; Spanish-American War claims; the highway bond issue; and unemployment. Included is a file on the 1928 Commission to Determine the South Carolina-North Carolina Boundary, which contains expense accounts, receipts, correspondence, a copy of the commission's report, and copies of the proclamations of the governors of South and North Carolina declaring the line to be true.

A 1930 unemployment file contains correspondence, reports (including a report on the public health facilities in the counties), working notes, minutes, petitions for relief, and other records documenting the activities of the Governor's Committee on Unemployment and the State Colored Unemployment Committee. The series also documents Governor Richards' campaign to enforce the blue laws, to prohibit carnivals, and to enforce the laws against gambling and slot machines.

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.