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HE following pages supply information respecting the several states Tand territories and indicate sources from which additional datai may be obtained. They are intended to furnish concisely an overrall sur- Si&vey of the government of each state—its elective officials; the composi tion of its supreme court, and of its commissions on interstate coopera tion; the number of its legislators, their terms and political affiliations; / its administrative officials; its nickname, motto, song, bird, and flower; iummary state statistics; a condensation of those services performed by its legislative reference bureau; the contents of its state manual; and \ the activities of its planning and development agency. Ineach case, the material has been double checked by officials within the state. . reported upon. , / jfci J •Financial statistics are given for'^^states. The'figures were fur nished by thie states and by the U. S. Bureau of th^ Census, which! . coordinates data from states to compensate for variations in_ termin ology and record procedures, thus rendering the figures miore nearly comparable. ' The following pages use the tota:l estimated population b)!' states for 1945 released by the Bureau of the Census; but for relative size of state populations, density per square mile,- and for the populations of towns and cities, the figures of. the 1940 census are used. \
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STATE AND TERRITORIAL PAGES 509 THE STATES OF THE UNION—HISTORICAL DATA
Dale Date Chronological Organized Admitted Order of as to Admission State Capital Source of Stale Lands Territory Union . to Union / Alabama ' Montgomery Mississippi Territory, 1798" March 3, 1817 Dec. 14. 1819 22 Arizona Phoenix Ceded by Mexico, 1848'' Feb". 24. 1863 Feb. 14, 1912 48 Arkansas...... Little Rock Louisiana Purchase, 1803 March 2, 1819 June 15. 1836 25 California Sacramento Ceded by Mexico, 1848 Sept. 9, 1850 31 Colorado Denver Louisiana Purchase, ISOS" Feb. 28, 1861 Aug. 1. 1876 38 Connecticut.... Hartford Royal charter, 1662» Jan. 9, 1788? ,•5. Delaware Dover Swedish charter, 1638; English Dec 7.1787' , 1 charter, 1683» . Florida.... . Tallahassee Ceded by Spain, 1819 March 30. 1822' March 3, 1845 27 Georgia. Atlanta Charter, 1732, from George II Jan. 2, 1788' 4 • to Oglethorpe^ - ^' Idaho Boise. Oregon Territory, 1848 March 3, 1863. July 3, 1890 43 Illinois. Springfield Northwest Territory. 1787 Feb. 3, 1809 Dec 3. 1818 21 Indiana.. Indianapolis Northwest Territory. 1787 May 7. 1800 Dec. 11, 1816 19 Iowa Des Moines Louisiana Purchase. 1803 June 12, 1838 Dec 28, 1846 29 Kansas.... Topeka Louisianaj Purchase, 1803'' May 30, 1854 Jan. 29, 1861 34 Kentucky...!:... Frankfort Part of Virginia until admitted . i") June 1.1792 • IS as state. Louisiana. Baton Rouge Louisiana Purchase, 1803* March 24. 1804 Aprils, 1812 18 Maine...... Augusta Part of. Massachusetts until (0) March 15, 1820 23 admitted as state Maryland...... Annapolis Charter, 1632, from Charles I April 28, 1788' , to Calvert" Massachusetts. Boston Charter to Massachusetts Bay Feb. 6. 1788' Company, 1629« Michigan...... Lansing Northwest Territory, .1787 Jan. 11, 1805 Jan. 26. 1837 26 Minnesota St. Paul ^ Northwest Territory, 1787'' March 3. 1849 May 11, 1858 32 Mississippi Jackson ji Mississippi Territory' April 17, 1798 Dec 10. 1817 20 (ssouri. Jefferson City Louisiana Purchase, 1803 . June 4, 1812 Aug. 10, 1821 24 Montana Helena A Louisiana Purchase, 1803' May 26.11864 Nov. 8, 1889 41 Nebraska Lincoln " Louisiana Purchase,. 1803 May 30. 1854 March 1, 1867 37 Nevada Carson City i Ceded from Spain, 1848 Marchjt 1861 Oct. 31, 1864 36 New Hampshire, Concord Grant from James 1,1622 and June 21, 1788' 9 • 1629« New Jersey...... Trenton Dutch settlement, 1623; Eng .V Dec 18,1787' lish charter, 1664" • • • •;••*< • t • New Mexico..... Santa Fe Ceded by Mexico, 1848»> Sept.-9.'l850 Jan. 6. 1912 47 New York,...... Albany Dutch settlement, 1623; Eng July 26. 1788' 11 lish control, 1664" North Carolina.. Raleigh Charter, 1663.fromCharlesII« Nov. 21, 1789' 12 North Dakota... Bismarck Louisiana Purchase, 1803 March 2, 1861 Nov. 2, 1889 39 Ohio...., Columbus Northwest Territory. 1787 Feb. 19, 1803 >17 Oklahoma...... Okla*homa City Louisiana Purchase. 1803 May 2. 1890 Nov. 16. 1907 46 Oregon Salem Settlement and treaty with Aug. 14. 1848 Feb. 14. 1859 33 Britain, 1846 Pennsylvania.... Harrisburg Grant from Charles II to -Dec 12, 1787' William Penn, lesO" Rhode Island... Providence Chai-ter, 1663.fromCharlesII« May 29, 1790' 13 South Carolina.. ^Columbia Charter, 1663, from Chariesll" May 23, 1788' 8 South Dakota... Pierre Louisiana Purchase. 1803 March 2. 1861 Nov. 2, 1889 . 40 Tennessee...... Nashville Part of North Carolina until («) June 1, 1796 16 • - ' admitted as state Texas....'...... Austin Republic of Texas, 1845 • C) Dec 29. 1845 28 Utah. Salt Lake City Ceded by Mexico, 1848 Sept. 9. 1850' Jan. 4, 1896 45 Vermont. Montpelier From lan3s of NeW Hamp (') March 4, 1791 14 shire and New York Virginia Richmond Charter, .1609, from James I June 25. 1788' 10 to London Company* Washlnlgton Olympia Oregon Territory, 1848 March 2, 1853 Nov. 11. 1889 42 West Virginia;.. Charleston Part of Virginia until adinitted c). • June 20, 1863 35 Wisconsin...... Madison Northwest Territory; 1787 April 20, 1836 May 29. 1848 . 30 Wyoming...... Cheyenne Louisiana Purchase, 1803'','' July 25. 1868 July 10, 1890 44
By the Treaty of Paris, 1783, England gave up claim to Portion of land obtained by Gadsden Purchase, 18537 . the 13 original colonies, and to all land within an area No territorial status before admission to Union. iextending along the present Canadian border to the Lake Portion of land ceded by Mexico, 1848. of the Woods, down the Mississippi River to the 3l8t One of the original 13 colonies.- parallel, east to the Chattahoochie, down that river to Date of ratification of U. S. Constitution. the mouth of the Flint, east to the. source .of the St. West Feliciana District (Baton Rouge) acquired from Mary's, down that river to the ocean. Territory west Spain, 1810, added to Louisiana, 1812. of the AUeghenies was claimed by various states, but was Portion of land obtained by Louisiana Purchase, 1803. eventually all ceded to the nation. Thus, the major part See footnote (»). The lower portion of Mississippi was of Alabama was acquired by the Treaty of Paris, but the also acquired from Spain in 1813. .„ lower portion from Spain in 1813. Portion of land obtained from Oregon Territory, 1848. ALABAMA
\ Nickname. The Cotton State Bird...... Yellovvhammer Motto We Dare Defend Our Rights Soiig .. . .Alabama Flower...... Goldenrbd, Entered the Union December 14,181'9
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE STATE PLANNING BOARD /SERVICE Director: W. O, DOBBINS, JR. CHARLES M. COOPER, Director Legal Basis: Ala. Gen. Laws (Reg. Sess. 1943, H. 62—Smyer) No. 183 . . Services: The Legislative Reference Serv Fuhds Available October 1, 1946-September 30, ice, creatted under authority of Act No. 152 •1947: S128,000 .. of the 1945 Legislature, has four general activities—-information concerning govern Activities: The. purpose ofi the Sjtate Plan ment in Alabama, governmental research, ning Bpard is to develop facts and plans codification of. the statute laws, and bill which will point the 'way to the best pos- drafting. The agency principally serves . sible development of Alabaina — econom legislators,.although it also works on re ically, socially, and physically. It attempts quest for state department heads, local to assist communities, individuals, com panies, and agencies in bringing about the government officials, and other persons. The Legislative Reference Service is super . realization of this dpyelopment.. In work vised by a Legislative Council of twelve ing toward this goal) the Planning Board persons, who are the President of the attempts to promote' only those plans di rected toward the wise use of our natural Senate, four Senators elected by members resources — the soil, the minerals, the wa of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of ters, and especially the people of Alabama. Representatives, and six Representatives elected by the House. The Legislative Ref erence Service also acts as the Legislative STATISTICS Council's research, reporting, and bill- Area (square miles). ..•.:• .51,078 drafting staff. . ' . Rank in Nation. ,. .28th . STATE'MANUAL Population (estunated 1945).... .;... .2,812,301 Alabama Official and Statistical Register \ Rank in Nation (1945)...... •...... ; 17th Issued by the Department of Archives • Density per square mile (1940)...... 55.5 and History Number of Representatives in Congress...... 9 . Published quadrennially Total Pages: 891 Current Volume: 1943 Fiscal Year October 1, 1945-September 30, 1946 Size in inches: 6x9 . - TotaiRevenue.'. . .•. ;...... •'. ,5114,207,101. V The Register contains a complete direc Total Expenditures. 596,864,611 tory of the legislative, executive, and ju State University. . University of Alabama dicial departments of the state government, with biographical material coriceirning the Site . .'•, . .University Capital City.....; .Montgomery^ \ chief officers. It also contains a complete directory of county, city, and federal offi Population (1940)....."...... ;...... 78,0g/i cials, state, institutions, newspapers, and Rank in State. A. ... .3rd libraries. Statistics on county population, Largest City. . . , ...... Birmirignarh municipal population, and election returns for the state are given. The 1943 Official Population (1940) . : .2)57,583 t and Statistical Register was printed and dis Number of Cities over .10,000 Population/.. . .14 tributed in 19m Number of Counties. .67 10 •' - • ALABAMA 511
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Governor JAMES E. FOLSOM Lieutenant Governor...... J. CLARENCE INZER Secretary of State ..-. SIBYL POOL Attorney General ...... ALBERT .A. CARMICHAEL State Treasurer...... JOHN BRANDON State Auditor .....'...:., .DAN THOMAS ALABAMA SUPREME COURT
Chief Justice ..... LUCIEN D. GARDNER Five /Xssociate Members
HoNf BROOKS ULASS Tefm Six years' GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on Elected by popular vote . ' JAUES E. FOLSOM Interstate Cooperation. ; LEGISLATURE President of the Senate ... .J. CLARENCE INZER .President Pro I'enri Speaker of the House...... W, M, BECK of the Senate...... J, BRUCE HENDERSON Clerk of the House.. ..ROBERT '^', GOODWYN, JR Secretary' of the Senate...... j. E. SPEIGHt Organization Session : „j Second Tuesday in January after election. Senators Representatives Term Length: 10 consecutive calendar days. D .....3 5 D...\.....105 Senate... 4 years Regular Session Total. . ..35 R ,.. 1 House.. .4ydars' First Tuesday in May, biennially.in odd Total. 106 years. Length; 36 days. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members : -House Members BROOKS GLASS, Chairman JAMES S. COLEMAN, JR. ',. EARL M. MCGOVVIN O. H. FINNEY, JR.' ... BEN!N. GLOVER • JAMES G. ADAMS, JR. W. H. DRINKARD .. «•' VV. G.HARDWICK . JAMES E. NETTLES • WARD MCFARLAND HENRY H. MIZE WILLIAM E. DAVIS PHILLIP HAMM i 'NOBLE J. RUSSELL G, KYSER LEONARD Ex-qfficiq Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... JAMES SALIBA Labor...... ,.....;, ...;.. .. R. R. WADE Advertising...... ,,.... W. O. DOBBINS, JR. Library (Archives and History). . MARIE B. QWEN Aeronautics...... ASA ROUNTREE, JR: Library (Law)...:...... RICHARD NEAL Agriculture...... HAYGOOD PATERSON Library (State)...... ;...... MARIE B. OWEN Audit ,...... ;. .DAN THOMAS Liquor Control ...... HER.MAN WHISENANT. Banking...... BROOKS GLASS Mines:. ._^ . T. Li BALL Budget...-. .. .JAMES "V. JORDAN Motor Vehicles.. .;...... ,. . . .H. S. PHIFER Clainfi. SIBYL POOL Old Age Assistance. ...;.... .ELIZABETH BRYAN Comptroller...... ;... .JOHN GRAVES Parks .JAMES SEGREST Conservation...... ,...... BERT E. THOMAS Parole ..;.;.... HOWELL TURNER Corporations SIBYL POOL Personnel. C. W. TERRY Corrections...... FRANK BOSWELL Planning and Public Works.. W. O. DOBBINS, JR. Education...... AUSTIN R. MEADOWS Police /,. . .•'...... J. D. MITCHELL Employment Service.....;...; .C. F. ANDERSON Printing and Purchasing...... ~... . E. E. ESTES Equalization of Assessments PHILLIP HAMM Public Assistance . . .\. ELIZABETH BRYAN Fire Marshal, .LESLIE GWALTNEY Public Utilities and Railroads.. GORDON PERSONS Fish and Game. - GRAHAM HICKSON Securities...... ALBERT A. CARMICHAEL Forestry...... ;.. J. M. STAUFFER Taxation...... ; .PHILLIP J. HAM.M Geology .-... .WALTER B. JONES Unemployment Compensation... .S. F. GARNLEY Health...... , .... .D. G, GILL, M.D. •Veterans. C. C. HORTON Highways...... ,...... WARD.W. MCFARLAND Vocational Education.,..... i, .R. E. CAMMACK Insane..,...... ".. .W."D. PARTLOW, M.D. Welfare...... ;. >.... LOULA DUNN Insurance...... ;.....;..... LESLIE GWAT.TNEY Workmen's Compensation ... .LUCILLE Y. PAULK ARIZONA
Nickname. .The Grand Canyon State Bird ; Cactus Wren Motto..., .Ditat Deus (God Enriches) Song...... \. .^.... : .Arizona Flower...... ' Saguaro Cactus Entered the Union February 14, 1912
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PLANNING AND. DEVELOPMENT SERVICE , : ,'• . ,- AGENCY .. - ;. State Legislative Bureau Arizona does not have an organized Department of Library and Archives planning agency (as of January,. 1947). MuLFORD WiNsoR, Director Postwar planning activities are carried on I by the various state departments; For.ex Services:. The Bureau conducts an inquiry ample, plans for large-scale reclamation service for legislators, administrative heads, development of the state have been made, and private citizens. Assistance in the'prep- and the Highway Department has com aration of bills is available, and bill draft pleted plans for improvements and new ing is done for members of the legislature cdnstruction projects that will amount, to and state officials. Material of interest to approximately $22,000,000'. legislators arid government officials is com piled. Much of,the material purchased primarily for legislative work is allowed to STATISTICS circulate. The Arizona News Letter, issued Area (square miles) .113,956 by the State Legislative Bureau, is out Rank in Nation...... I...... 5th standing in its field. Population (estimated 1945).. 630,298 Rank in Nation (1945) ..37th Density per square mile (1940)...... ^4.4 . STATE MANUAL Number of Representatives in Congress .2 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 ; The State Legislative Bureau, a division Total Revenue 530,738,087 of the Department of Library and Ar Total Expenditures. .526,371,150 chives, is authorized by law to "compile State University...... University of Arizona Site ,.....,; Tucson and publish a legislative manual, year Capital City. ...:.'.': Phoenix book or official register containing infor Population (1946)...... '...... 90,000 mation concerning the Legislature, and Rank in State ". .1st the offices, departments, institutions, and Largest City ...... Phoenix agencies of the state government," but no Population. (1946). 90,000 Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.. 3 funds have been provided for the purpose. Nunaber of Counties...... ".....;.... .14
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"'^^ "^^ Governor..;...... SIDNEY P. OsBoi.SJ Lieutenant Governor ...... None Secretary of State ... .DAN E. GARVEY ">• ^^BMHPP^^ Attorney General... JOHN L. SULLIVAN • VH^BB ^ -k^s^^^^^'. state Treasurer. Mix SIMS ^^^^^KT-^^^i^^'^i''.' State Auditor ...... ANA FROHMILLER ''•)?^^Bw^J*i^^^?''
ARIZONA SUPREME COURT Chief Justice;...... R.C. STANFORD Two Associate Judges Term. Six years W^m / Elected by popular vote - - ^; •— ' ^ 1^ . • . • GOVERNOR HON. E. L. JAMESON •• . SIDNEY P.. OSBORN . Chairman of the Commissioa on ' _ Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the SenatA...... JOHN G.BABBITT . Speaker of the House...... E. L.JAMESON Secretary of the Senate\ . ... .MAY BELLE CRAIG Clerk of the House...... MRS. LALLAH RUTH Senators RepVesentatives Term ^ Regular Session D...... 19. D. . .\ ...... 53 Senate.. .2years • Monday after first Tuesday in January, Total...... 19 R. . . .\. .5 House.. .2years biennially in odd years. Length: 60 days. , TotaL \ 58 : .
COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Senate Members House Members SAMUEL J. HICAD .. E. L; JAMESOK, Chairman LLOYD G. HEWING LORNA E. LOCKWOOD CLAY B. SIMER ^Secretary:. MULFORD WINSOR
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... v A, M. 'TUTHILL Library (Archives)..,::.:.... MULFORD WINSOR Advertising RAYMOND CARLSON Library (Law). ...,...... MULFORD WINSOR .^. Aeronautics .W. T. WRIGHT ' Library (State) MULFORD WINSOR Agriculture .J..L. E. LAUDERDALE Liquor Control...... ;. JOHN A. DUNCAN^ Audit...... :...... ANA FROHMILLER Mines.....-...... ; .CLIFFORD J. MURDOC'K Banking ...... DAVID O. SAUNDERS Motor Vehicles...... B.' H. MCAHREN Budget...... SIDNEY P. OSBORN Old Age Assistance. .HARRY W. HILL ; Claims..;...... ;... ANA FROHMILLER Parole. .;..... WALTER I; HOFMANN Conscfrvation....;...... H. L. REID Planning...... :.. E. C. SEALE Corporations. .; W. T. WRIGHT Police.:...... v...... H. E. WALKER Corrections. . .JACK WILSON Public Assistance J. R. MCDOUGAL Education NOLAN D. .PULLIAM Public Utilities. •.. W. T. WRIGHT Employment Service ROBERT D. KENDALL Purchasing...... SIDNEY P. OSBORN Equalization of Assessments ...... JOE. HUNT Railroads...... HARRY W. HILL Fish and Game...... i...... H. L. REID Securities: i.... .W. T. VVRIGHT 'Geology...... G. M. BUTLER Taxation. JOE HUNT Health G. F. MANNING, M.D. Unemployment Compensation..... B. PARKINSON Highways.'...... W. C. LEFEBVRE Veterains...... ,SPENCER THOMPSON Insane...... i .JOHN A. LARSON, M.D Water Resources ...... O. C. WILLIAMS Insurance .ROY B. RUMMAGE Welfare..,...... HARRY W. HILL Labor...... '.. THEODORE PUSTARFI Workmen's Compenis^tion...... RAY GILBERT ARKANSAS
Nickname...... The Wonder State Bird. Mockingbird Motto. . . . ." Regnal Populus Song...... ;.... Arkansas • (The People Rule) Flower...:...... Apple Blossom Entered the Union. .. .June 15, 1836
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE ARKANSAS RESOURCES AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION . State: History Commission^ Executive Director: HENDRIX LACKEY Director, Publicity Division: GLENN A, GREEN DALLAS T, HERNDON, Secretary Director, Planning Division; I. J. STEED Dii-edtor, Agriculture and Industry Division: Services: The archives have readily acces H. K. THATCHER sible information on subjects of legislative Director, Flood.Control, Water and Soil Conser interest. An attempt is made to furnish vation Division: D. D. TERRY Director,""Forestry and Parks Division: both -legislators and officials with informa FRED H. LANG tion concerning legislation, in other states, Director, Geology Division: HAROLD B. FOXHALL and a file is kept of all bills introduced into Legal Status: Legislative Act, 138, 1945 the general assembly. Bill drafting is .per Funds Available, July 1, 1947—June 30, 1948: formed for members of the general assem-. V$945,609 bly. and for state departments by the attbrr ney general upon request. STATISTICS . Area (square miles) .\. . . .}•:...... 53,335 • Rank in Nation...... 25th STATE MANUAL •Population (estimated 1945)...... 1,779,817 '^'« The Arkansas Handbook Rank in Nation (1945).. '...... 29th Density jx;r square mile (1940)...... 37.0 Issued by authority of the Number of Representatives in Congress'.' 7 Arkansas History Commission • Fiscal Year July.1,1945-June 30, 1946 ' Total Revenue '...... :...... \ ... S72,223,006» Total Pages: 140 ; Current Volume: 1945-46 Total Expenditures:.....,.;..... 564,247,0001 ...... Fayctteville Handbook presents an adequate directory Capital City...... Little Rock of the state,government and other signifi Population (1940) \.... • . ...v.. .88,039 cant historical information cohcernirig the Rank in State.; 1st s.tate. It has a roster of state officials, and Largest City.,...... ; . . .. Little Rock contains complete biographical informa Population (1940). . .'. . v ...... 88,039 tion about members of the general assem Number of Cities over 10,000 Population. . . . ; .9 bly. Arkansas first issued a yearbook in Number of Counties.. .'.....'•.. .'.•.. .[...... 75 1936. : : ,.- / •U. S. Bureau of Census report
514 ARKAiN'SAS 515 OFFICERS Governor ...... BENJAMIN T. LANEY Lieutenant Governor .NATHAN-GORDON Secretary of State. ..;.... C. G. HALL Attorney General... .GUY E. WILLIAMS State Treasurer... .J. VANCE CLAYTON State Auditor J. OSCAR HUMPHREY Land Commissioner .CLAUD A. RANKIN
Wi^^^ • ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT Chief Justice '.GRIFFIN SMITH Six Associate Judges . HON. CHARLES CWrNE: Term...... :. ^ight years GOVERNOR ^ Chairman of the Commission on t-lected by popular VOte ' BEN T. LANEY Interstate Cooperation • • LEGISLATURE President of the Senate...;.... NATHAN GORDON Secretary of the Senate L N. MOORE President Pro Tern Speaker of the House...... ROY L. RIALES of the Senate...../. .L.T. BARNES Clerk of the House...... ;JACK MACHEN Senators Representatives Term Regular Session ^D 35 D...... 97. Senate,. .4years Second Monday in January, biennially in 'Total, ...... 35 R...... 3 House.. .2years odd years. Length: 60 days.- " : Total...... 100 .. : . : •. . . . • COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Seriate MemBcrs House Members CHARLES C. WINE, Chairman EZRA GARNER : < TOM ALLEN O. E. ^ESTFALL . ERNEST MANER W. F. RECTOR JNO. J.JTRUEMPER JOHN S. MOSBY G. C. HOLLENSWORTH GUY El WILLIAMS J. E. SMITH LLOYD E. DARNELL W. M.JACKSON J..T. WIMBERLEY ,/• WALTER W.RANEY FALON A. FRALEY / ," J. ED. THOMPSON Ex-officio Honorary Meni'bers: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE -ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General>...... H. L. MCALISTER Labor...... ,..:...... '... M. E. Goss Advertising ...... GLENN A. GREEN Library (Archives)...... ; DALLAS T. HERNDON Agriculture .....;...... H. K, THATCHER Library (Law)...... JOHN H, CALDWELL Audit. .J. OSCAR HUMPHREY Library (State) . .IRENE MASON Banking...... ;.,. '• .THOMAS W. LEGGETT Liquor Control...... O. A. COOK Budget ...... JNO. J. TRUEMPER Mines ...... *.. .JOE W. FITZJARRELL . Comptroller ...... -..'...... JNO. J. TRUEMPER Motor Vehicles...... ;... .FRANK D. CLANCY Conservation ...... :..... D. D. TERRY Parks...... FRED H. LANG Corrections. . . . ^...... ,.. ..TOM COGBILL Parole ...... ; . . . . W. P.BALL Education RALPH B. JONES Planning I. J. STEED Employment Service...... :...... PURIFOY GILL Police .JACK PORTER Financial Control...... FRANK A. STOREY Printing...... ;. . .. .BRYANT WILDER Fire Marshal...... ;. .LEE BAKER Public Utilities and Railroads C. G. WINE Fish and Game...... T. A, MCAMIS Purchasing ...... OPIE HARTJE Forestry...... "...... -...... FRED H. LANG Securities...... JOHN G. CARTER Geology. .HAROLD B. FOXHALL Taxation.. JNO. J. TRUEMPER Health ...:...:. • T. T. Ross, M.D. Unemployment Compensation. .. .PURIFOY GILL Highways...... ,-...... J. C. BAKER Veterans...... JOE L. HEARNE Insane ...... GEORGE W. JACKSON, M.D. Welfare...... TED R. CHRISTY Insurance...... '. .JACK G. MCKENZIE Workmen's Compensation...... D. W. P*EEL
:'i^\ CALIFORNIA
Nickname ...... The Golden State Bird...... California Valley Quail Motto... . .Eureka (I Have Found It) Song (unoflRcial) / Z,optf Tou, California Flower .Golden Poppy Entered the Union September 9,1850
LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE STATE RECONSTRUCTION. AND SERVICE REEMPLOYMENT COMMISSION Law and Legislative Reference Section Director: A. EARL WASHBURN State Library . Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chap. 631 i Statutes ^ of 1943 • HERBERT V. CLAYTON, Reference Librarian ," A/iwVzVj; Under legislative mandate, the Services: Co\\&c\& and.catalog material: Commission has proceeded to "assemble, and serves as a research agency. I study and analyze data concerning human. Office of Legislative Couns?^ natural and economic resources of the State Legislature State," and to formulate plans and .pro- FRED B. WOOD, Legislative Counsel grams for an orderly transition from a Services: The office drafts bills and ren- ^artime to a peacetime economy.^ The ders opinions to members of the legislature Commission is aided in this work by the and state officers in connection with studies and reports of advisory and project proposed or pending legislation. The committees, which have enlisted the volun- Legislative Counsel is the Secretary to the Jary services and advice of more than six California Code Commission and his staff hundred leading citizens. - prepares the codification of the California On September 19, 1947 the Commission statutory law for the Commission. Codifi- went out of existence, and the planning cation, now more than half completed, will functions are now^vested m the governor resultinrepealof most of the present Stat- as authorized by Chap. 1408, Statutes of ute law and in the enactment of about 24 •^"^'' codes in its place. . / STATISTICS : \
«• . . . •..' -. , ,. , . . .. ., . •• \ Area (square miles)."...... '..... 158,693 • Rank in Nation....:...... '.;...... 2nd ast. „_,._,„ X4^ATVTTTAT PopuktioD (cstimatecl 1945)!...... 8,822,688 STATE MANUAL Rank in Nation.(1945).,...... 3rd California Blue Book Density per square mile (1940)...... ,,. .49.15 .„ ,, , • „, Number of Representatives in Congress...... 23 Prepared by the State Pnnter . fiscal Year July 1, 1945-^June 30, 1946 Total Pages: 792' Current Volume: 1946 ; Total Revenue $731,998,0001 Size in inches: 6 X 9 . Total Expenditures...... $559,210,0001 The book is Ulustrated, contains several ^tate University...... ^iversityc^GaMyrnia - , , ^ .„ ^ ^. " •,! c Sites Berkeley and Los Angeles very useful charts illustrating the frame- Capital City. .Sacramento work of government m the state, and tables Population (1940) 105,958 of property valuation of the several coun- Rank in State ...... , 6th ties. It hia^a complete roster of the officers Largest City...... Los Angeles of the state and of federal officers, and Population (1940)...... !.. ...1,504,277 elected representatives. There is. also an Number of Cities over 10,000 iPopuI^tion 58, economic survey of every county which Number of Counties.....;-?...... 58 gives details of income. , lU.S. Bureau of Census report -3Li.
CALIFORNIA:^ .517, OFFICERS - Governor .EARL WARREN Lieutenant Governor .....; GooDuaN J. KNIGHT Secretary of State.. .FRANK M. JORDAN Attorney,General... FRED.N. HOWSER : State Treasurer. . CHARLES G. JOHNSON \ State Controller. ..THOMAS H. KUCHEL i Director of Finance... .JAMES S. DEAN 1 CALIFORNIA. '•.. i SUPREME COURT \Chief Justice. PHIL S- GIBSON " , Si.x Assbciate Justices Term. .Twelve years Elected GOVERNOR HON. GOODWIN J. KNIOHT EARL WARREN Chairman of the Commission on Interstate Cooperation ' LEGISLATURE . •President of the Senate.. . GOODWIN Ji KNIGHT Speaker of the Assembly. ...,.. SAM L. COLLINS President Pro Tem Speaker Pro Tem . of the Senate. HAROLD J; POWERS" of the Assembly.. .. .'.•.: THOMAS A. MALONEY Secretary of the Senate JOSEPH A. BEEK Clerk of the Assembly. ARTHUR A. OHNIMUS Senators Assemblyrrien Term • Regular Session D...... 11 D...... :-.30 Senate... 4 years General Session, .first Moiiiiay after first R...... :..26 R...... 48 Assembly-2 years day in January, biennially in odd years. Vacancy.'.... '3 Vacancy...... 2 Budget Session, first Monday after first day Total...... 40 Total...... 80 of March in even numbered years. Length:, ho cbnstitutionallimit.' COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members Assembly Members GoODwnLN J. KNIGHT, Chairman JESSE M. MAYO, Vice Chairman JAMES G.CRICHTON : CHARLES H. PURCELL • JAMES J. MCBRIDE RICHARD H. MCCOLLISTER JAMEJS S. DEAN R.R.CUNNINGHAM . JAMES E. THORP FRED N. HOWSER ' ; RANDOLPH COLLIER ' VINGENTJTHOMAS WARREN T. HANNUM ' CHARLES BROWN RALPH (T DILLS Ex-qfficio Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR ExecutiveSecretary.-.W. C.JACOBSEt^ ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General C. D. O'SULLIVAN Library (Archives and History),... . C. WENZEL Advertising...... ;...... JAMES S. DEAN Library (Law) ...... HERBERT V. CLAYTON Agriculture...... ,../ ..... A. A. BROCK Library (State), . . ...,.....; .MABEL R. GILLIS Audit.,...,...... i..LAWRENCE ROUBLE Liquor Control...... GEORGE M. STOUT Banking...... ; MAURICE. C. SPARLING Mines...... :. >.. .. W. B. TUCKER Budget. FRED W. LINKS Motor Vehicles...... EDGAR E. LAMP.TON Claims.. JAMES S. DEAN and THOMAS H. KUCHEL Old Age Assistance.. .CHARLES Ivl. WOLLENBERG Comptroller , .THOMAS H. KUCHEL Parks...... :...... ; A. E. HENNING Conservation. ...'.: .WARREN T. HANNUM Parole . . .THOMAS H. PENDERGAST Corporations...... EDWIN M. DAUGHERTY Personnel...... ,...... ;.. .JOHN F. FISHER Corrections...... RICHARD A. MCGEE Planning. ;.; A. EARL WASHBURN Education . . . ;...... ROY E. SIMPSON Police...... ,...... ,.. E. RAYMOND CATO Employment Service...... TJAMES G. BRYANT Printing...... PAUL E. GALLAGHER Equalization of Assessments.. DIXWELL L. PIERCE Public Utilities and Railroads... H. P. HULS Fire Marshal...... JOE ]^. YOCKERS Public Works...... CHARLES H. I*URCELL Fish and Game...... i..... EMIL J. N. Orr, JR. Purchasing...... J..FRED MISPLEY Forestry ...... DE WITT NELSON Securities...... EDWIN M. DAUGHERTY \ . Geology...,. .... W. B. TUCKER Taxation.. ^...... ,; CHARLES J. MCCOLGAN . Health: ...... WILTON L.. HALVERSON, M.D. Unerhployinent Compensation..jAME5G. BRYANT Highways...... ;.GEORGE T. MCCOY Veterans. . . . LAWRENCE C. STEVENS Insane...... ,.:...; MRS. DORA S. HEFFNER Watei: Resources....;...... EDWARD HYATT Insurance...; ;.... WALLACE K. DovraEY Welfare! ...... CHARLES M. WOLLENBERG Labor...... JOHN F. DALTON Workmen's Compensation.. PAUL SCHARRENBERO V COLORADO
Nickname...... The Centennial State Bird .....;.. Lark Bunting Motto..... ^ . :. . . .Ml SineNumirii Song...... Where^the Columbines Grow (Not>iing With^but the Deity) Entered the Union. . . .August 1, 1876, Flower. . Rocky Mountain Columbine
LEGISLATIVE REFERENGE COLORADO STATE PLANNING SERVICE ; COMMISSION Legislative Reference Office " Director: W. M. WILLIAMS , ,v> . • Attorney General's Department \^^^^}'^^'^\hl^'^H^'':''^ ^"^^l^.l^r ,« .„/o •;-, ^^ o c Funds Available.July 1, 1947-Junc 30, 1948: CLAIR T. SiPPEL, Secretary $33 875 " . 'S'«'Z'r«j; The Office conducts research on : Activities: Publications issued by the Com- the .operation of Colorado statut.es and mission include the CO/OTJA^/O Twr 5ooyt,.pub- those of other states, keeps progress reports jjshed biennially; Building Program Jor Colo- I on bills mtroduced into the general assem- ^^j^,^ 23 State Institutions (Jan., 1947), and bly. Upon request-It advises as to the con- Report of the State Planning Commission to the stitutionahty or probable effect of proposed g^^^^^^^ ^„^^^, Legislature (1947). The Plan- legislation, drafts bills, and conducts, re- ning Commission is composed of twelve search on subjects of probable interest at members, who serve as chairmen and. vice^ forthcommg.sessions The Office checks^all chairmen of the following committees of •bills for correct legislative procedure.:; ^^^ Commissi6h: Agriculture and Live- - stock Development; Co-Operative City and STATE MANUAL County Planning; Industrial and Market- ColoradH fear Book > ^^^ Development; Mineral, Oil and Min-^ . . "'^'"•'' . - . . ..ing.Development; Public Lands, Recrea- Issued by State Planning Commission ^^ and Tourist Travel; State Institutions • Published biennially and Public'Buiidings; Taxation and Gov- Total Pages: 530 Current Volume: l'943-4? ernmiental Affairs; Transportation, High- : ^ Size in inches: 6 x 9. vvays, and Safety;Water Resources and . This book contains a brief summary of. l:'and Use. . the history and ;deyelopment of the state, --- together with facts on climatology, topog^ STATISTICS •-. v 3^-. raphy, geography,; population, and vital Area (square miles). iT. ;103,948 statijstics; and statistical-data coi^cernmg • Rank in Nation.. ,...... 7th industries and resources; and^recfeational Population (estimated 1945)...... 1,120,595 and educational advantages. ..: S^iik in Nation (1945). 34th Several chanter'? are devnted tn ^ OFFICERS ' Governor. .Wi&biAM LEE KNOUS Lieutenant Governor . ....;, ... HOMER L. PEARSON : Secretary of State ...... WALTER F. MORRISON Attorney General • | ' ...... H. LAWRENCE HINKLEY • State Treasurer. .H. RODNEY ANDERSON . State Auditor;.... .HOMER F. BEDFORD COLORADO SUPREME COURT Chief Justice... .,. .HASLETT P. BURKE Six Associate Judges HON. H. LAWRENCE HINKLEY Term ...... :... :. Ten years GOVERNOR . Chairman of the Cpmmiuion on Elected by popular vote WILLIAM LEE KNOOS • Intergovernmental Cooperation • LEGISLATURE - President of the Senate...... HOMER L. PEARSON President Pro Tern Speaker of the House... . .WM. ALBION CARLSON of the Senate ... :..... EDWARD A. WHITAKER Secretary of the Senate . . .WILLIAM C. BLAIR Clerk of the House. .. . .VINCENT C. CRAWSHAW Senators Representatives Term Regular Session ,,D..;;..;...... 8 D;^... ..';.. 19 Senate.. .4years First Wednesday in JanuaryJ'•biennially''in R...... ;..27 R...... 46 Hou.se... 2 years odd years. Length: no constitutional limit. Total...... 35 ..T5tal... ;...65 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION • Administrative Members Senate Members . House Members H. LAWRENCE HINKLEY, Chairman -HAROLD WARD GARDNER MILTON J. BLAKE WILLIAM M. WILLIAMS EDGAR W. BRAY FRANK FEHLING JAMES A. NOONAN VERNON A; CHEEVER JAMES J. OGILVIE MALCOLM ERICKSON" JOHN J. HARPEL EARL W, MANN ELTON K. MCQUERY BEN VELTRI^ JACK MCMILLION Exrofficio Honorai^ Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER'OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS -Adjutant General... . . IRVING O. SCHAEFER Liquor Control . .WALTER F. MORRISON Advertising. ....;...... -... .LEWIS COBB Mines (Coal)...... THOMAS ALLEN Aeronautics..;:...... WILLARD J. BAIN Mines': (Metal)..:...... FRED JONES , Agi-iculture...... VV. C SWEINHART Motoii Vehicles...... ;. . . . ': .CHARLES H. GUNN - Auditor HOMER F. BEDFORD Personnel.: . .J. LEON MICHAELSEN •Banking...... WM. L HAZLETT • Planning...... , .... ,...... W. M. WILLIAMS Budget and Control. .JAMES A. NOONAN Polite...... ;, ;...... G. R. CARREL. Corporations...... WALTER F. MORRISON Printing . AL MAY Education....}...... :...... NETTIE S. FREED Public Instruction...... NETTIE S. FREED Employment Service. , . . .B. E, TEETS Public Utilities . .MALCOLM ERICKSON Fish and Game. ..-,..... C. N. FEAST Purchasing ....". L. L. WILKINSON Forestry.;...... ;...... EVERETT J. LEE Railroads...... C. L. FLOWER Geology ^. .FRED JONES Revenue. . .W. F. PERKINS Health...... }::. ...:... ;R. L. CLEERE, M.D. Securities...... CURTIS WHITE Highways.... 1...... MARK U, WATROUS Taxation...... : J. R. SEAMAN Insane...... F. H. ZIMMERMAN, M.D. Unemployment Compensation."... . . B. E.TEETS Insurance ;...... LUKE J. KAVANAUGH Veterans....:..,...... ,.... F. A. THAYER , Library (Archives and History) LE ROV R. HOFEN Water Resources... . i. ,. . : .. CLIFFORD STONE Library (Law)...... :-.. .GEORGE TROUT Welfare...... EARL M. KOUNS Library (State) . .GORDON L. BENNETT Workmen's Coinpensatiori...... WM. I". REILLY GONNEGTIGUT 3 • Nickname;....The Constitution State Flower...... Mountain Laurel Motto...... Qui Transiulil Susdnet Bird. . , ., ...... ,. Robin (He Who Transplanted •; - , Continues to Sustain) Entered the Union... January 9, 1788 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE ^ GONNEGTIGUT DEVELOPMENT SERVICE COMMISSION . Legislative Reference Department Managing Director: SIDNEY A. EDWARDS LEGAL BASIS: Ch. 121b 1939 SuppL to Conn. Gen. State Library Stat... - •- •; ••;- -. / MURIEL A. NAYLOR, Chief • • Funds Available July 1, 1946-June 30, 1947:. ,5228,735 Semces.-yTho State Library acts as a ref erence library for state officials. Laws; jour- Activities: The Connecticut Develop neds, department reports, and bills from ment Commission, an independent agen other states are filed as well as official type cy, was established by the 1939 session of written copies of stenographers' notes taken the. General Assembly, superseding the at the hearings of legislative committees. State Publicity Commission. It is composed A complete series of record cards on each of eleven private citizens, representing the bill: gives its history and present status. various business and economic interests of "Special reference lists on important ques the state, and including at least one resi tions are prepared. A Legislative Research dent from each county, one representative Pepartme;nt was established by Public Act of labor, and one representativfe of agri 5, in 1947. The Legislative Commissioner- culture. The Commission seeks to encour (appointed by the General Assembly for age industry, attract tourists, and secure a four year terms) conducts bill drafting, market for agricultural goods. To offer en advisory services to the Legislative Gdun-. couragement to new industries, the Com cil and. the preparation of cumulative sup- mission supplies lists of available vacant plemehts to the General Statutes. plants, data on the iresources of tjie state, and tax information. STATE MANUAlT .Connecticut Slate Register and Manual „. . STATISTICS Issued by the Secretary of State Area (squaremiles)...... 5,004' Published annually Rank in Nation...... , .....46th Total Pages: 915 ; Current volume: 1945-4(5 Population (estimated 1945) .. . ., .1,786,300 Size in inches: 5 X 7^ Rank in Nation (1945):.. .'...... 28^ Density per squire mile (1940), .;. ..34^9 The Manual is a directory of the person Numbei- of Representatives in Congress...... 6 nel of the state government, including pho FiscaLYearJuly 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 tographs and biographies of United States Total Revenue, .- .;;....; .5110,752,865 Senators, Congressmen, state officers, and Total Expenditute,...... ^5109,204,918 State University...... University of Connecticut legislators. In addition it contains the elec Site. ".-...'. ..: ...... Storrs tion statistics and a complete listing of local Capital City ...... '...... Hartford officials, together "with statistical inCormia- Population (1940). ., .. . 166,267 tion concerning each town, arid miscel Rank in State...... 1st Largest City ...... Hartford laneous information, concerning the sta:te. Population (1940); .....-,..;....;... .166,267 The Afaiiual has a coloted^maip of Connect &•, Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.... .24 icut.. • • Number of Counties '...,...... 8 ,520 M y CONNECTICUT: 521 : ^^ OFFICERS Governor. .... JAMES L.. MCCONAUGHY Lieuteiiant Governor JAMES C. SHANNON \ Secretary of State ,...... FRANCES BURKE REDICK Attorney Gtheral,. WiLLiA-M L. HADDEN State Treasurer.... .JOSEPH A. ADORNO State Comptroller.... .FRED R. ZELLER CONNECTICUT SUPREME "-COURT OF ERRORS ' Chief Justice-.... WILLIAM M. MALTBIE Four Associate Justices Term....,...;...... Eight years Appointed by the General .'\ssembly on nomination by the governor GEN.SANFORD H.VVXDHAMS Chairman of. the Commission on GOVERNOR Intergovernmental Cooperation LEGISLATURE JAUES^L.MCCONAUOHY President of the Senatei, .JAMES C. SHANNON President Pro Tern Speaker of the House , .FREDERICK.H. HOLBROOK of the Senate.... ,.. .ROBERT S. PARSONS Clerk bf the Senate, , CLARENCE F. BALDVVIN Clerk of the Hoiise , ...... SEARLS DEARINGTON Senators Representatives Term Regular Session. D... 9 D...;:..:;..45 Senate.. .2years Wednesday after first Monday in January, R"...... 27 R...... 227 House... 2 years biennially in odd years. Length: until Total...... 36 Total.....: 272 Wednesday after first Monday in June. COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members SANFORD H. WADHAMS, Chairman LUKE H. STAPLETON GEORGE C. CONWAY WILLIAM L. HADDEN • ROBERT E. PARSONS LOUIS SHAPIRO . ROBERT H. WEIR FRANCIS J. SUMMA ELIZABETH B. GILLIE • JOSEPH B. DOWNES ALICE ROWLAND . LILLIAN L. YERRINGTON FRANCES B. REDICK WILLIAM F. LYNCH JOHN P. COTTER Ex-qfficio Honorary Members THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF.SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE . Z)jwior: HENRY H. HUNT . ' - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS ' Adjutant General ...,..... R; B. DELACOUR Labor...... ^... j...... JOHN J.' EGAN Advertising...... SIDNEY A. EDWARDS Library (Archives and History)..: MARY E. SMITH Aeronautics...... KENNETH H. RINOROSE Library (Law)...... VIRGINIA A, KNOX Audit.. FRANK M. LYNCH and JOSEPH B. DOWNES Library (State)...... ;.;.. .JAMES BREWSTER Banking...... RICHARD RAPPORT Liquor Control...... JOHN T. DUNN, JR. Budget. .... \..., ROBERT H. WEIR Motor Vehicles ...... (,. ELMER WATSON Claims...... WILLIAM L. HADDEN Parks...... ,...... DONALD C. MATHEWS Comptroller...... '...... FRED R. ZELLER . Parole.....;...... ;.....,. .RALPH H. WALKER Corporations. ..;.;.. .^..... FRANCES B. REDICK Personnel G. A. SCOBORIA Corrections...... '.. .. .WILLIAM D. BARNES Planning. . .SIDNEY A. EDWARDS, Education...... ALONZO G. GRACE Police. ;.. .EDWARD J. HICKEY Employment Service: . ... >.. .WILLIAM G. ENNIS Printing!:...... FRED R. ZELLER Equalization of Assessments...... W. VV. WALSH Public Assistance...... EDWARD H. REEVES Farms and Markets. .;.. .JOHN CHRISTENSEN Public Utilities and Railroads .... .C. Q. FISHER Fire Marshal ....,...... ! A. R. KIENHOLZ Purchasing EDWARD C. GEISSLER •Fish and Game RUSSELL P. HUNTER Securities...... CLARENCE H. ADAMS Food and Drugs...... FREDERICK H. HOLBROOK Taxation....;...... WALTER W. WALSH Forestry. A. R. KIENHOLZ Unemployment Compensation.. .H. E. HAUSMAN Health.,.... •^•.... STANLEY H. OSBORN, M.D. •Veterans. .CARL GRAY .Highways...... G. ALBERT HILL Water Resources...... S.ANFORD H- WADHAMS Insane...... '..... '.-...... ROBERT J. SMITH Welfare and Old Age Assistance.... !Ri J. S.MITH Insurance^...... :. W. ELLERY ALLYN Workmen's Compensation...... LEO J. NOONAN •,r^- DELAWARE Nickname. . .The Diamond State \* Bird...... iBlue Hen Chicken Motto,!.. . Liberty and Independence Song...... Our Delaware . Flower,'...... Peach Blossom Entered the Union December 7, 1787 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT BUREAU '•--. AGENCY •, / •• ^• • 'E.hKUET>.}Ni\A.v.Y, Director Delaware has no general>planning and Services: fThe Bureau, composed of the development agency. The State Postwar Governor, ;he President Pro Tern of the Planning Commission concluded its work Senate, ahd the Speaker of the House of with a report issued. December 15, 1944; Representatives, engages in bill drafting, in research with respect to the subject mat-, ter of proposed legislation, recommends such revision of legislation as may be con sidered necessary, and functions as a ref erence bureau, for all matters pertaining/to legislative subjects whether enacted by Del aware: or other states. «=5e> STATISTICS. •f ; .•.;,': STATE MANUAL •...•....; Area (squaire miles)...... '...... 2,370 Delaware State Manual Rank in Nation...... 47th Issued'by the Secretary of State Population (estimated 1945)...;...... 286,8^2 Published annually Rank in Nation (1945).!:.... ;...... 46th Total_Pages: 64 Current Volume: 1947 Density per square mile (1940)..:... ;. 134.7 ! Size in inches: 4 X 9 Number of Representatives in Congress .:...i The Delaware State Manual contains a Fiscal year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946; coniplete list of state officials and mem Total R-venue. . . ,.,".*'..., .516,123,086 bers of state boards and commissions, and Total Expenditures...... ;.. . . SI3,298,679 a directory of executive, legislative, and State University...... University of Delaware judicial departments of the state govern-'" Site.....;...,. v...... ,... Newark ment. It aJso contains a roster of county officials,Togetherwithjustices of the peace, Capital City...... ,.....; .Dover and notaries public in the state. A supple Population (estimated. 1947)...... _ ,6,500 mentary publication is in.preparation which Rank in State...... '.j. .2nd will give a digest of the functions of the Largest City!...... \, ...... Wilhiington various departpients and agencies of the Population (1940).,... ..'....;....: :li2,504 state government, together with the names Number of Cities over 10,000 Population, i...', 1 of the state,officers. Number of Counties. ,.:;...... 3 r 522 DELAWARE 523 OFFICERS Governor ...... WALTER W. BACON Lieutenant Governor ELBERT N. CARVEL Secretary of State. •.. \VILLIAM J. STOREY Attorney General... '.'ALBERT W, JAMES State Treasurer .-. BENJAMIN F, JOHNSON State Auditor.;.,:. {-BENJAMIN I, SHAV^ ^ DELA4^ARE SUPREME COURT Chancellor-... W. WATSON HARRINGTON Chief Justice.... CJIARLES S. RICHARDS Four Associate justices Terren.,. Twelve years Appointed by governor with advice and consent of Senate HON. BURTON S. HEAL GOVERNOR• Ghairman of the Commission on WALTER W. BACON Interstate Ckioperation LEGISLATURE - • . • • , • _.. • ?• • • ^ • , - • , • • ,, .•,..•. .• President of theiSenate.:.;. .ELBERT N. CARVEL • ' President Pro Tem , i / Speaker ofthe House ...... WILLIAM T. CHIPMAN of the Senate GEORGE W. RHODES ' Secretary of the Senate. .WILLIAM F. WiLousi JR., Clj^rk of the House...... JOHN F. LYNN Senators Representatives I Term y . Regular Session . D.... '..6 D...... ••.. .11 Senate..; 4 years First Tuesday in January, biennially in odd R ...11 R...... 24 Hlouse... 2 years years. Length: 60 days. . Total ...17 Total. 35 \ . ^ - / , COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members BURTON S. HEAL, Chairman RAYMOND B. PHILLIPS RALPH S. KEENAN RICHARD C. BECKETT, Secretary HOWARD H. DICKERSON MARTIN L. BLACK WILUAM T. CHIPMAN . ^fpLSON M. HAMMOND DUDLEY CROSSLEY, Vice Chairman Ex-qfficio Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General PAU^R. RINARD Library (History) .; .LEON DE VALINGER, JR^ Aeronautics ,..; , ..STEVVARTE.. POOLE Library (Law) WILLIAM D. DENNEY Agriculture RALPH (3, WILSON Library (State) .WILLIAM D. DENNEY Audit....'. .... BENJAMIN^/SHAW Liquor Control.....;...... EDGAR S. STAYER Banking. .JOHN CNpARisY Motor Vehicles...... FRANK L. REED Budget. y:...... :. .LILLIAN I. MARTIN • Old Age Assistance GLADYS MCRAE Corporations..... WILLIAM J. STOREY Parks. '. .MAX TERRY Employnient Service ...... ;.. ALBERT STETSER Parole .PERCIVAL R. ROBERTS, Jr'i Equalization of Assessments .P. S. DUPONT Police (Acting) HERBERT BARNES Fish and Game FRANK A. LAWSO^ Public Assistance (Acting) Forestry .W. S. TABEIR^ ...,...-...... :. MRS. FLORENCE A. CLARK Health EDWIN CAMERON, M.D.^^ Securities. .ALBERT W.JAMES Highways...... t.... WM. A. MCWILLIAMS S^ \ Taxation P. S. D)|^ONT Insane . .M. A. TARUMIANZ, M.D^ ^XTnempJoyment Compensation ...... A. STETSER Insurance. ;... .WILLIAM J. SWAIN \Ceterans!...... , A. W. FOREMAN Labor. W. KIRK SIMMONS Welfare ...... ;,.'... KENNETH C. LAMBERT Libr£u-y (Archives).. .. .LEON DE VALINGER, JR. Workmen's Compensation.... .FRANCIS D. BUCK FLORIDA . • r • Bird...... :: . . . Mockingbird Nickname...... The Peninsula State Song The Swanee River Motto .. .InGod We Trust Entered the Union. .March 3,1845 Flower. ;. Orange Blossom • ' •- • • • q»- •, •, • LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE FLORIDA STATE IMPROVEMENT SERVICE ' COMMISSION. State Library Executive Director: G. H. OVERMAN _; W.T. CASH, Librarian LEG.AL BASIS: Legislative Act, 1945. Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1948; Services: The service rendered is of refer SI 13,900 ence rather than research, since there is no . J statutory provision, and none of the staff Activities: The Commission has been given devotes full time to legislative reference the responsibility for postwar planning in work. Bill drafting is done largely by the Florida.. Its general powers, purposes, aittorney general's office. The secretary of and duties are to assemble and study data state keeps a file of all bills introduced in on the laws, governrnent, resources, and ac the legislature.. This file is accessible to, tivities of the state and its subdivisions for and used by, the State Library. The libra the purpose of advising and assisting, pro rian is appointed by the State Library posing and recommendinij to state admin Board, and he, in turn, appoints the meyn- istrative officers, legislators, and the public, bers of his staff. plans for the development, welfare, and governance, of the state, in order that the ^2»,», state's plan of'development may be co STATE MANUAL , ordinated, its economic resources con The Report of the Secretary of State of Florida . served, and the welfare of its people pro moted. Issued by the Secretary of State ' Published biennially STATISTICS Total Pages: 554 Current-Volume: 1945-46 Size in'ihches: 6x9. Area (square miles) :..... 58,666 Rank in Nation . . .21st Xhe Report of the Secretary of State of Florida Population (estimated 1945) .2,385,917 contains a complete directory of the state Rank in Nation (1945). .V... 21st government. Included also are lists of no Density per square mile (1940).;...... 35.0 taries public, trademarks registered in the Number of Representatives in Congress...... 6 Fiscal Year Jiily 1, 1946-Junc 30, 1947 secretary's office, cases against nonresident Total Revenue...... r.8184,317,612 motor vehicle drivers in which summons Total Expenditures .5151,834,858 is sent the secretary of state for service, and State University. . . . Florida .State University a;detailed county directory. The Report Site....". ;...... Tallahassee University of Florida Gainesville contains an index, and tabulations, by Capital City Tallahassee cbuntieSj of the votes in the primary elec Population (1940) 16,240 tions of 1946. There is an ab^qS^t of Rank in State i2th votes for the-general election of 194^tab- Largest City. .Jacksonville . Population (1940) .173,065 ulated by counties, available on a separate Number of Cities oyer 10,000 Population.... .20 sheet. Number of Counties;...... ; 67. ••--•-* ". • 524 FLORIDA 525 OFFICERS Governor .MILLARD F. CALDWELL Lieutenant Governor .None Secretary of State...... R. A. GRAY Attorney General...... J. TOM WATSON State Treasurer. . 1.. .J. EDWIN LARSON Commissioner of Agriculture » ...... NATHANMAYO Superintendent of Public Instruction ., .COLIN" ENGLISH State Comptroller CM. GAY FLORIDA SUPREME COURT ^.. Chief Justice. .ELWYN THOMAS Five Associate Justices HON. J. TOM WATSON Term...... Six years GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on Elected by popular vote . MILLARD F. CALDWELL Interstate Cooperation LEGISLAJURE President of the Senate .;,.. S. D. CLARKE • President Pro Tem Speaker of the House...... THOS. D. BEASLEY of the Senate...... CHARLEY B.JOHNS. Clerk of the House...... MRS. LAMAR BLEDSOE' Secretary of the Senate .ROBERT W. DAVIS Senators Representatives Term Regular Session p...... 38 D...... •!.94 Senate...4years Tuesday after first Monday in April, bien- R ....1 House... 2 years nially in odd years. Length: 60 days. Total 95 • " : COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION J. TOM'WATSON, CAairman Associate Members . Senate Members House Membt^rs CODY FOWLER LLOYD:F. BOYLE JOE C. JENKINS R. A. HENDERSON CHARLES S. AtisLEY THOMAS B, DOWDA ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... VMARK W. LANCE Highways F. E. BAYLESS Advertising ...... ;. j. . . ROY C; BECKMAN Insane. J. H. THERRELL Aeronautics .... (WILLIAM G. LAZARUS Insurance ...... J. EDWIN LARSON Agrifculture I .... NATHAN MAYO Library (Archives and History)..... W. T. CASH Audit ...... BRYAN WILLIS Library (Law)...... o. G, P. MCCORD Banking.. C. M. GAY Library (State). W. T. CASH Budget HOMER G. GRAHAM Liquor Control. ...!.. .J. T. VOCELLE Comptroller .J .." C. M. GAY Motor Vehicles...... !. .GEORGE H. ASBELL Conservation...... T. ... . J. T. HURST Old Age Assistance...... LELAND W. HIATT Corporations...... K. A. GRAY Parks..; LEWIS G. SCOGOIN Corrections ; .*.....! ARTHUR DOZIER Parole. ; RAYMOND B. MARSH ALYCE D. MCPHERSCN Police ...... H.N. KiRKMAN • L. F. CHAP.MAN Public Assistance .... .LELAND W. HIATT Education .-. .COLIN ENGLISH Public Utilities and Railroads... W. B. DOUGLASS Employment Service...... FONS W. HATHAWAY Securities G. S. JOHNSTON Fire Marshal...... j, EDWIN LARSON Unemployment Compensation Fish and Game...... BEN C. MORGAN ...... WM. U. NoRwbOD, JR. Forestry. .C. H. COULTER Veterans. .G. L. KILLIAM r Geology. HERMAN GUNTER Welfare LELAND W. HIATT Health...... WILUAM T. SOWDER, M.D. Workmen's Compensation ..... W. E. ROUNTREE . GEORGIA Nickname...... The Cracker State Bird (unofficial).... . Brown Thrasher .M.otto..Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation Song .Georgia Flower. Cherokee Rose Entered the Union ..January 2, 1788 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE^ AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL SERVICE ^DEVELOPMENT-BOARD OF GEORGIA Georgia State Library Executive Director: TOM WISDOM ELLA MAV THORNTON, Librarian Legal Basis: Legislative Act, 1943 Georgia Laws, page 113, Georgia Code Annotated 40-2101 to 40-2112 Services: Information is compiled for the Funds Available July 1, 1947—June 30, 1948:. use of legislators and the general public. Allotments for 1947-48 are not determinable. Research is conducted and legislation is Funds are provided from quarter to quarter by authority of the Budget Commission. summarized. A card index, by subject, of all legislative bills bi public inteirest has Activities: The Agriculture. Panel of the been building since 1914, and a card cata Board is.carrying on a soil-building and log is kept of material of interest to crop-diversification program; the Industry legislators. .. /Panel is promoting the establishment of home-owned industries and seeking to • bring outof-state industries to Georgia; the Eduction, Health, and Public Works Panels are conducting both local and 'statewile surveys in their respective fields. The Public Works Panel is also studying STATE MANUAL : the problems of river and harbor develop ment. The Trade, Commerce, and Business Georgia Official and Statistical Register Panel is promoting a comprehensive tour ist program and conducting_^^ a statewide Issued by the Department of Archives forestry survey. and History /?• STATISTICS Total Pages: 8t8 Current Volume: 1939-41-43 Size in inches: 6x9 Area (square miles) ;... . 59,265 Rank in-^Nation 20th Population (estimated 1945) .3,191,766 The Georgia Official' and Statistical Register Rank in Nation (1945)...... 13th contains a complete directOFy^of the state ' Density per square mile (1940) 53.4 Number of Representatives in Congress 10 executive, legislative, and judicial depart Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, 1946 ments, county officers, federal officials Total Revenue...... Siq7,258,8?)6 . resident in Georgia, and members of Con Total Expenditures.. .-. .•.. SS^68,323 gress from the state. Considerable miscel State University...... ;.. University ofXjeorgia • Site...... : Athens laneous material such as lists of election Capital City .". Atlanta returns, newspapers, banks, and public, : Population (1940) ". . . . 302,288 libraries is included. There is an index. Ramk in State.....'. 1st The issues for 1933, 1935, and 1937 were Largest City. . . . ;. Atlanta^ comjDined in one volume. The 1939-1941- Population (1940). . ; .302,288 Number of Cities over 10,000.Population. 19 1943 edition is the latest in print. . •Number of Counties...... 159 526 GEORGIA , 527 OFFICERS Governor ...... MELVIN E. THOMPSON Lieutenant Governor...... (Vacancy) Secretary of State.BE.N VV. FORTSON, JR. T- Attorney General...... EUGENE COOK State Treasurer. . GEOROE B. HAMILTON State Auditor ,B. E. THRASHER, JR. Comptroller General.., . ZACH CRAVEY • , GEORGIA SUPREME COURT ^^^ ^H^V^ Chief Justice...... W. FRANK JENKINS' Five Associate Justices Term Six years SENATOR WlLUAM T. DEA.V V\,^rt,'A hv r^rinnlar i/r.f<. ' ^ Chairman of the Commission bicctcci by popular vote GOVERNOR on Interstate Cooperation MELVIN t. THOMPSON LEGISLATURE V \ Presidentpf the Senate.. .(Vacancy) President Pro Tern of the Speaker of the House...... :. .FRED HAND Senate •• • • WILLIAM T. DEAN Clerk of the House ...... JOE BOONE Secretary, of the Senate..... MRS. HENRY NEVIN Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D...... 53 D,, .•...;.. .204 Senate . .2 years Second Monday in January;-biennially in . R...... 1 R...... 1 Hoiise...2 years odd years. Length: 70 days. Total.. 54 Total. ;.W. 205 COMMISSI ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members HOMER C. PARKER ILLIAM T. GEMi, Chairman ADIE N. DURDEN EUGENE .COOK -O ANK M. ARNOLD JACK B. RAV BEN W. FORTSON, JR. ilARLES A. PANNELL P.\UL S. ETHERIDGE, JR. G. ELLIOTT HAOAN TrfoMAS G. CALLAWAY, JR. J. ROY MCGRACKEN . CHARLES L. GOWEN FRANK L. BAKER, JR. GEORGE L. SMITH, II. . GLENN S. PHILLIPS Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDEI»JT OF SENATE;, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General .ALPHA A. FOWLER, JR. Library (State)...... ELLA MAV THORNTON Agriculture. .TO.M M. LII^JER Liquor Control .T.M. PRICE Audit. . B. E. THRASHER,JR. Mines...... ;...... GARLAND PEYTON Banking O. G. JACKSON Motor Vehicles...... J. H. LATIMER Budget. .B. E. THRASHER, JR. Old Age Assistance...... ,. . . .LUCILE WII^ON Corporations.. .BEN W. FORTSON, J^ Parks...... ;CHARLIE MORGAN, SR. Corrections CHARLES A. WILLIAMSX Parole. . .'EDWARD B. EVERETT Employment Service.,.. . .MARION A. O'CONNOR , Planning. .TOM WISDOM Fish and Game.. .CHARLES N. ELLIOTT Police '. , MAJOR DAVIS Forestry.. ARTHUR.RAY SHIRLEY "rinting...; .J. L. PILCHER Geology....,...... GARLkND PEYTON. Publicity. ....;.. (Vacancy.) Health .. T. F. ABERCROMBIE, M.D. Public Utilities and Railroads. . W. Ps MCDONALD Highways ...... "...... '...... J. C. BEASLEY Purchasing ...... J. L. PILCHER Insaiie... :.".....,. .YOUNG HARRIS YARBROUOH Securities.., M. C. BENNETT Insurance • • • HUBE^RT MCDONALD Taxation. .GLENN PHILLIPS Labor...... ;...... 'EIEN T. HUIET Unemployment Compensation . .O. T. HATHCOCK Library • Veterans. C. ARTHUR CHEATHAM (Archives and History). . , .. .MRS. J. E. HAYS Welfare.. L. C. GROVES Library (Law)...... ELLA MAY THORNTON Workmen's Compensation ...... PAT J. RIORDAN IDAHO % Nickname . The Gem State Bird...... Mountain Bluebird Motto...... •.:. Esto Perpelua Song...... Here IVe Have Idaho (Mayest Thou Endure Forever!) Entered the Union...... July 3,1890 Flower. . . Syringa ^ , LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE IDAHO STATE PLANNING BOARD SERVICE Ghairrhan: J. R. SiMPLOT Executive Secretary: ALVIN H. READING ' There is no department devoted exclu Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chap.-8, Session Laws, sively to fegislative reference service. The Ex. Sess. 1935 Director of the Bureau, of*the Budget, Al- Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1948: 512,500 vin H. Reading, has been very, helpful in •••'./ •;.->, furnishing information to the Council of .'Activities: The activities of the Board State Governments. consisted largely of classifying the building, needs of the state institutions into emer gency and long term needs, preparing an interim report to the special session in 1946 which resulted in appropriations of $2,093,000 for construction, and establish ment of a: permanent buildi"ng"fund in the STATE MANUAL recwlar s'ession of 1947 with an additional aihount of-$2,000,000 for future building, Report of the Secretary of State of'Idaho not to be assigned to particula:r buildings Issued by the Secretary of State except by future sessions. These were the first major construction projects in the Published biennially state's history not financed by bond issue. Total Page's: 32 Current Volume: 1945-46 ^_ Size in inches: .6 X 9 The Report of the Secretary of State of Idaho contains a roster of members of the United STATISTICS \ States Congress from Idaho, together with Area (square miles) i,... 83,888 a complete roster of state .officials ?of the Rank in Nation.,... i;...... \ .. ..12th executive, legislative, and judicial depart Population.(estimated 1945)...... \.500,109 ments. Divisions of the executive depart Rank in Nation (1945) ...A..42nd ment of the state are described in detail, Density per square milei(l940)...... \.. .6.3 and there is a directory of county officers. Number gf Representatives in Congress..:;... .2 Fiscal Xear July 1, 1945-Juni^ 30, 1946 An abstract of votes cast in the last primary Total Revenue. . .$44,609,761 and general elections is appended to the Total Expenditures.;...... S39,777,'l 11 Report. In addition, the Report contains a State University University of Idaho brief history on the admission of Idaho as Site '.'. Moscow' Capital Gity. .Boise a state and the political founders of Idaho, Population (1940)...... ,....." 26,130 together with other matters relating to Rank in State...... ;..; .lst\ early history of the state. The report also Largest City...... ^ Boise ^ lists daily, weekly, and monthly publica Population (1940). ,. .26,130 Number of Cities over 10,000 Population...., .7 \, tions in the state. Number of Counties.... i...... 44 ••.> '. . • • • 528 -\ IDAHO 529 OFFICERS Governor- :...... V... C. A. ROBINS Lieutenant Governor ...... DONALD S. WHITEHEAD Secretary of State...... J. D, PRICE. Attorney General.;. ,ROBERT.E. SMYLIE State Treasurer...... LELA D. PAINTER ^^^^ State Auditor...... N. P. NIELSON ^^fldS^^H IDAHO SUPREME COURT ^^^H v ^•||^^^^;^^^H Chief Justice ...... ALFRED BUDGE . Five Justices Term Six^years-'^'* Elected by popular vote Ho.N. GLENN HOWELL ^ C^T^RanL Chairman of the Committee on ^.. U A. KOBINS ' Interstate Cooperation . • LEGISLATURE \ President of the Senate. .DONALD S; WHITEHEAD • . President Pro Tem of the Senate. .J. E. WILUAMS . Speaker of the House...... BARNEY GLAVIN Secretary of the Senate. CARL C. KITCHEN Clerk of the House ...... PAUL DAVIS Senators Representatives Term ' Regialar Session D. .. i ...... 14 D...... '.18 Senate.. .2 years First Monday after January 1, biennially in. R..,. 30 R. ..41 House... 2 years odd years. Length: 60 days. Total...... 44 Total; 59 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Members t • GLENN..HOWELL, C/iaiVmfln, ROBERT AILSHIE / ALVIN H. READING / . ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... ;.'. .. .• .JOHN E; WALSH Library (Law)...... , .CLAY KOELI'CH Aeronautics. ^ ... . .CHET MOULTON Liquor Control...... SETH HARPER Agriculture...... ff. ..D. A. STUBBLEFIELD Mines. .GEORGE A. MCDOWELL Audit,.. . N. P..N1ELS0N Motor Vehicles ..... R. C.. LEWIS Banking.: .,:• -E. F. HAWORTH Old Age Assistance...... ^...... B. CHILD Budget...... ;... ALVIN H. READING Parks ..'....;... E. W. SINCLAIR Claims. ....;...... N. P. NIELSON Parole ... HERMAN P. FAII-S Corporations...... '. .. .J.. D. (Cy) PRICE Police....'...;..... R. G. LEWIS Education...... :... ALTON B. JONES Public Assistance ...... B. CHILD Employment Service...... S, D.. HAYS Public Utilities B. AtJGER Equalization of Assessments.. . THOMAS J. KURDY Public Works...... E. W. SINCLAIR Fire Marshal.,...... -,STANTON G. READY Purchasing.. HAROLD A. BOYD Fish and Game...... THOS. B. MURRAY Railroads. .;.....;. B. AUGER Forestry...... -. .STANTON READY Securities E. F. HAWORTH Geology...... A. W. FAHRENWALD Taxation THOMAS J. KURDY Health... 1..:...... ,..;...... L. J. PETERSON Unemployment \^ Highways.. .*v^. JAMES REID Compensation.. .^...:...... H. F. GARRETT Insane.. .J|. -• • • •... ..GENEVIEVE H. CRESWELL Veterans....,...... ; .SAMUEL E. VANCE, JR. Insurances^.. . .JAMES HUBBARD Water Resources...... MARK R. KULP &• Library (Archives and Welfare...... :.. . ..,...... B. CHILD History) GERTRUDE MCDEVITT Workmen's Compensation.. . . B. W. OPPENHEIM ILLINOIS Nickname...... The Prairie State Bird . Cardinal M.oUo.,Stale Sovereignly—National Union Song.. Illinois Flower. ...;...... Native Violet Entered the Union December 3, 1818 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE ILLINOIS POSTWAR^PLANNING SERVICE: COMMISSION Legislative Reference Bureau Director of Planning: HAL TROVILLION Special Commission Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chap. 127, Sec. 63i, JEROME FiNKLE, Executive Secretary Rev. Stat. 1943 Funds Available 1947-48: $94,000- Services; The Bureau prepares most of the bills introduced in the general iassem- Activities: The Commission was created bly, conducts research upon legislative sub-, to direct the planning of postwar public jects, and maintains a legislative reference works, resource development and other ac library. The Bureau assists the general as tivities within the state. Subcommittees sembly in all phases of its legiplativcrwork. have reported on the! postwar needs of It also publishes a weekly cumulative Leg agriculture, industry, transportation, local islative Synopsis and Digest oi all bills and planning and development, education, rec resolutions introduced and their legislative reation, health, welfare, and rehabilitation •progress. . , services for veterans and others. Legislative Council Special Commission JACK F.IsAKOFF, Director of Research ^^ . .SCT^wiVM.-The Council operates an infor mational iservice for members of the Gen eral Assembly and, in addition, publishes factual reports: on legislative subjects of "STATISTICS relatively wide interest. ' . .. • ""••• - Area (squaremiles)...... ;....'... .56,400 _ _ Rank in Nation; , ; 23rd STATE MANUAL Population (estimated 1945) .7,721i099. Illinois BlueBook Rank in Nation (1945). ,...... 4th Issued by the Secretary of State _ Density per square mile (1940)...... 141.2 Published biennially Number of Representatives in Congress...... 26 Total Pages: 871 Current Volume: 1945-46 YISCSLI Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 Size m inches: 6 X 9 Total Revenue...... 5402,117,972 The illinoisBlue Book is one of thelargest :Total Expenditures...... ' .$367,096,418 and most nearly complete of all state man- State University .University of Illinois uals. Every departme'nt of the state gov- . Site. .'...... Urbana ernment is described as to personnel and Capital City ...... ;...... Springfield functions and expositional articles oiidine Population (1940)...... 75,503, the progress of their work. It contains pic- Rank in State,::; .... .5th tures and biographical sketches of all rank- Largest City,,...... :...... -...... Chicago irig officials. Included is an annotated list Population (1940)...... 3,396,808 of all amendments proposed to the Illinois Number of Cities over 10,000 Population,... .59. constitution, from 1878 to the present. Number of Geunties. 102 •••"••• ' • '' '530 •••.." • : \ • ' ILLINOIS 53J OFFICERS Governor;. DWIGHT H, GREEN Lieutenant Governor... HUGH W. GROSS Secretary of State.. EDWARD j, BARRETT Attorney General. .GEORGE F. BARRETT State Treasurer.. RICHARD* YATES ROWE State Auditor;....,,ARTHUR G. LUEDER. ILLINOIS SUPREME COURT Chief Justice .WALTER T. GUNN Six Associate Justices Term .;...; .Nineyears .HON. BERNICE Ti . Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR VAN DBR VRIES • DwioHT H. GREEN Chairman of the Commusion on Intergoveramental Cooperation ^ LEGISLATURE President of the Senate..;...... HUGH W. CROSS Secretary of the Senate. EDWARD H! ALEXANDER President Pro Tern -J- Speaker of the House...... HUGH GREEN of the Senate .EDWARD E. LAUGHLIN Clerk of the House .FRED RUEGG SeriatorsV Representatives Term Regular Session D...... 13 D...... 65 Senate... 4 years Wednesday after first Monday in January; R 38 R 88 House.. .2 years biennially in odd years. Length: no con Total.. 51 Total...... 153 stitutional lirtiit. COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMEIiTAL COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members DVUGHT H.~ GREEN CHARLES W. BAKER BERNICE T. VAN DER VRIES, HUGH W. GROSS FREDERICK W, RENNICK Chairman HUGH GREEN MARTIN B. LOHMANN NICK KELLER JEROME FINKLE . STANLEY J. MONDALA JAMES P.-LANNON GEORGE F. BARRETT EDWARD P- SALTIEL NOBLE W. LEE MARK SAUNDERS JOHN G. KLUCZYNSKI, 'Ex-officio Honorary Members:TH E PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE SecrHary: HAROLD C. BRADSHAW ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... LEO M. BOYLE Library (State).,.;...... EDWARD J. BARRETT Aeronautics.. .ROBERT DEWEY Liquor Control...... ,...... CHARLES J. FLECK Agriculture ARNOLD P. BENSON . Mines . . .-... .•'...:...... -... .THOMAS MOSES Audit....':...... «.-^,.. ARTHUI^G. LUEDER Motor Vehicles EARL W. MERRITT Banking., T. ..ARTHUR G. LUEDER Old Age Assistance. ... .RAYMOND M. HILLIARD Budget...'. ; T. H. LETH Parks... .;..;.... V. .G..W. WILLIAMS Claims...... ARTHUR C. LUEDER Parole...... ;...... *. W. C. JONES Conservation...... LIVINGSTON E. OSBORNE Personnel.... .^\...... DANIE^ D. FEDER Corporations...... WILLIAM G. WORTHEY Planning HAL TROVILLION Coirections. .W. G. JONES Police ;T. P. SULLIVAN Education...; VERNON L. NICKELL Printing...... H.J. CRUGER Employment Service ...... (Vacancy) Public Assistance. RAYMOND M. HILLIARD Equalization of Assessments.... P. C. ROSENQUIST Public Utilities and Railroads.-... .JOHN D. BIGGS Fish and Ganie...... , LmNosTON E. OSBORNE Public Works WALTER A. ROSENFIELD Fire Marshal...... JOHN W. CRAIG Purchasing...... "...... , W. R. YOUNGBERG ' Forestry...... J, G. LOOMIS . Securities. POYNTELLE DovvNiNo Health...... ROLAND R. CROSS, M.D. Taxatibri...... ;.... PC. ROSENQUIST Highways...... :.. W. VV. POLK Unemployment Compensation. . .SAM BERNSTEIN Insane. ".'.'...,..,.. CASSIUS POUST Veterans....-.....,...... HOMER G. BRADNEY Insurance...... N. P. PARKINSON Water Resources ...... THOMAS B. CASEY Labor.....:.....:... ROBERT L. GORDON Welfare...... CASSIUS Poust Library (Law)...... B. G. ARKEBAUER Workmen's Compensation .. .WILLIAM E. KAISER tN INDIANA Nickname...... TheHopsierState Bird.'...... Cardinal Song. ... .On the Banks of the Wabash Motto. . .The Crossroads of America V'' Far Away Flower. : .Zinnia •f; Entered the Union December 11,' 1816 • ' • • • V LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE / INDIANA ECONOMIC COUNCIL SERVICE . Director: KENNETH L-.ScHELLiE " Legislative Bureau LegalBasis: Legislative Act: Chap. 260, Laws 1943 . •: , HERBERT P. KENNEV, Director » - / ^^40!;""'^^' ^"^- ^' '^'^^l^"' ^°' ^'''^ 'ServicesrThG duties of the Bureau include Adivities: The CouncU supersedes the the^maintenance of a library on legislative gtate Planning Board, and was set up to deal and other public questions; maintenance of ^^^j^ long-range rather than with specifi-. a file of all bUlsintroduced m the general eally designated postwar projects. It is assembly, as well as pertment bUls from gj^^n the responsibility of studying and in- otherstates5 the preparation of a period- ^esji^^^ natural resources of the ical digest of legislatioji with daily action gtate and the problems of agriculture, in- thereon; the editing of House and Seriate ^^^^ and allied matters, and of formu- Journals; the editing^ and indexing of the 1^^^^, ^i^^^ ^nd making recommendations acts of the General Assembly; drafting of fo^. f^^jher development of resources and legislation; mumcipal research;^ keeping . fo^. adequate provision for the future pop- the House and Senate Plat;, and seating ulation of the state. Ambng the publications the members ofthe General Assembly. The oftheCouncil are bulletins on county forests Bureau works with special commissions of and aviation development. , the General Assembly on codification of ) laws arid the redrafting of the state con-. : ' stitution. ; ••'• \--. .• • -'-'-^ • : :• • . • ' '• • . •' . •:'••.•STATISTICS; '.J.,-•"•.-,:. : ; . .;. 3TATE MANUAL Area (square miles)....^:;.:'..../^TTsG^SSS • Tear Book 0/ the State 0/ Indiana Rank in Nation...... , . .37th Issued by the Department of Accounting Population (estimated 1945)...... 3,437,745 and Statistics Rank in Nation (19.45)..;...... :...... 12th Published annually . . Density per squaremile (1940)...... 94.7 Total Pages: 966 Current Volume: 1945 Number of Representatives in Congress. .-... .11 •. ^. . . , ^ „ FiscalYear July 1,1945-June 30, 1946 : ^ Size mmches: 6x9 ,: Total Revenue....,....;...... 5252,789,232 The Tear Book of the State of Indiana con- Total Expenditures...... J112,253,364 tains complete reports of all executive de- State Universities partments of the state government.- Each Indiana University ... Bloomington department is carefully described and its Purdue University .West Lafayette history given. On page IV there is a list of Capital Qty.,...... Indianapolis the regular publications of the state. There Population (1940)...... 386,972 is no division devoted to the legislative Rank in State...... 1st branch of the government, but there is a Largest City...... Indianapolis description of the organization and activi- Population (1940)..; .386,972 ties of the Commission on Interstate Coop- Number.of Cities over 10,000 Population..., .35 eratibn. The T^ar 5oo/: contains an index. Number of Counties...... ,.,.92 •• .' • • . •.'.' •• ;532- "- ""*v-;'.- .\ INDIANA 533 y OFJFICERS Governor..., RALPH F. GATES Lieutenant Goveirnor.RiCHARD T.JAMES Secretary of State,... .TnoNiAS E. BATH Attorney General...,. CLEON H. FOUST State Treasurer...... FRANK T. MILLIS State Auditor. ALVAN V. BURGH INDIANA SUPREME COURT. Chief Justice .; ... MART J. O'MALLEY Four Associate Judges Term... .^...... Six years HoN;'FRANK T. MILUS " Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on , RALPH F. GATES . Interstate Cooperation ••/ ~r LEGISLATURE . President of the Senate...... RICHARD T. JAMES President Pro Tem Speaker of the Senate. .JOHN W. VAN NESS of the "House . HOBART CREIGHTON Secretary of the Senate CHARLES R. BROVW Clerk of the House. . NoLAND'C," WRIGHT : Senators- Representatives Term Regular Session D.... .12 D...... ,.12 Senate.. .4years Thursday after first Monday in January, R.. 38 R...... 88 House.. .2years b&nnially in odd years. Length: 61 days. Total >50 Total...... 100 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Membera House Members FRANK T. MILUS, Chairman ARTHUR P. COBLENTZ, First Vice Chairman GEORGE W. HENLEY, LEROV E.'YODER, Secretary, JOHN W. VAN NESS Second Vice Chairman Cl^ON H. FoUST vViLUAM C. BATES GEORGE N. COPELAND THOMAS E. BATH CLYDE R. BLACK GLENN R. SLENKER LBLE-WALLACE O. BRUCE LANE • HOWARD R. HIESTAND W. Q. HUGHES Ex-bfficio Honorary Afembers: TkE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF. SENATESPEAKfe, R OF HOUSE ' Executive Secretary: THURMAN A. BIDDINGER ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS ' Adjutant General...... HOWARD H. MAXWELL Labor...... ;.. CHARLES W. KERN Advertising...... :...... PAUL M. R.OSS. Library (Law)...... " GENEVIEVE BROWN Aeronautics..;...... CLARENCE F. CORNISH Library (State)...... HAROLD F. BRIOHAM Agriculture RICHARD T. JAMES Library (Archives and History). .H. H. PECKHAM Audit...... ALVAN V. BURCH Liquor Control.^ ...;.. BURRELL E. DIEFENDORF Banking...... JOSEPH MCCORD " Mines. GRIFFITH MORRIS Budget...... RoscoE P, FREEMAN Motor Vehicles...... H. DALE BROWN •Comptroller.. . .«...... ,.....: FRANK T. MILLIS Old Age Assistance...... MAURICE O. HUNT Conservation. . . .JOHN H. NIGH Parks,...... ;... K. R. COUGILL Corporations....."...... THOMAS E. BATH Personnel...... JAMES M. KNAPP Corrections...... :.. .HARVEY L. HIRE Planning. KENNETH L. SCHELLIE Education ...... :...... BEN H. WATT Police.. ROBERT ROSSOW Employment Service...... NOBLE R. SHAW PrJBting .COOPER C. CLIFTON Equalization of Assessments. ... O. C. WULFMAN >Public Assistance...... MAURICE O. HUNT Fire Marshal. , :...... CARTER L BOW^SER Public Utilities and Railroads.... LEROY YODER Fish and Ganiie...... DONALD R. HUGHES Purchasing. .OLA F. HESLAR Forestry (Acting)...... RALPH F. WILCOX Securities. ....;. '..' .KENNETH WEDDLE Geology. CHARLES F. DEISS Taxation ; .O. C. WULFMAN and FRANK T. MILLIS Health...... LEROY E. BURNEY, M.D. Unemployment Compensation ..... N. R. SHAV/ Highways...... ••• • • • •• • • • • • JOHN H. LAUER Veterans...... WILLIAM G. STALNAKER Insane...... DOROTHY C. V. HEINZ (Acting) Welfare,...... ;..... OTTO WALLS insurance...... • • •; • JOHN O.PEARSON Workmen's Compensation.. .. JOSEPH P. MILLER IOWA Nickname, .. The Hawkeye State Bird...... ;.... .Eastern Goldfinch ••,-•••• ••-.••'•' Motto,...... Our Liberties We Prize-arid ^ Song...!..,.,...... ;.....Iowa • Our Rights We Will Maintain \.- '•• - ••••"••• A-; Flower ... .Wild Rose Entered the Union December 28« 1846 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE ' IOWA ; SERVICE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION Legislative Reference Bureau. Chairman: SETH BARKER State Law Library ^Legal Basis: Legislative Act: Session Laws 1945, 1 51st General Assembly, Chap. 63, P. 90 » W. R. C. KENDRICK, Law Librarian and Funds AvaUable July 1, 1947—June 30, 1948: Legislative Reference Director ,r $80,000 Services: The Bureau conducts ^n in Activities: The.Commission is composed quiry service for all persons requiring leg of 11 members, 2 senators, .2 representa- islative information. It prepares subject- vtives, and 7 mehibers appointed by the indexes of legislative material, as well as governor. Its function is to replace the digests ofbills pending arid the statutes of State Industrial and Defense Commission other states. Research is undertaken at the in promoting the state's industrial^ agri request of legislators. Bill drafting is done cultural, and recreational resources. upon request, although the-attorney gen eral and code editor also assist in this work. The Law Library functions under the Li brary Board of Trustees, composed of the governbrj superintendent of public in struction, and a member of the Supreme, STATISTICS Court. Area (square miles)...... — .56,280 V -., •-•. •, ' - •', • '--•:•••,- Rank in Nation...... '•. .24th .. ESTATE MANUAL V Population (estimated 1945)...... 2,259,526 The Iowa Official Register . • • Rank in Nation (1945) ..: .;..;...... ;22nd Issued by the Superintendent of Printing IDensity per square mile (1940)...... 45.3. Published biennially, in odd years Number of Representatives in Congress...... 8 Approx. Pages: 450 • Current Volume:. 1947-48 Fiscal Year July 1^, 1946—June 30, 1947 Size in inches; 5^ x 8^ Total Revenue...... ^. ; . .\". SI 89,220,599- :^ptal Expenditures.; ...... :,^$ 122^107,407 The Iowa Official Register contains an ade quate directory and explanation of the State University...... '..: . . University of Iowa duties of the legislative, executive, and ju Site...... : :.....Iowa City dicial departments of the state government. Capital City...... • ... .Des Mpines Extensive biographical material is given, Population (1940)...... 159,819 and there is a directory of county officers Rankin State. . . . . :,...... 1st and of federal officials in Iowa. Election statistics are contained in The Register, amd Largest City...... • • • .V Des Moines "considerable miscellaneous material, a his Population (1940).'... ; 159,819 tory of Iowa," and Iowa population statis NumbeA:of Cities over 10,000 Population.'... .21 tics. There is an index. Number of Counties...... v^^,...... 99 534 \V ' -K- ,^»». IOWA 535 OFFICERS " Governor. ROBERT D. BLUE Lieutenant Governor...... K. A. EVANS Secretary of State. ROLLO Hi, BERGESON Attorney General... ROBERTjL. LARSON State Treasurer...... ^ .J. M. GRIMES State Auditor...... :.. .C, B. AKERS n ; • ,, • State Comptroller ...... R.>E. JOHNSON ••^-'f- ' .' •• •'•-.''--••'•••' ''r :\v^"- -•.•'••••iOWA.^ ••;^- • •:.\p, SUPREME COURT \V Chief Justice..;... G. F. WENNEKSTRUJW Eight Associate Justices | . Term...... Six. years HON. ROBERT L. LARSON '**GOVBRNOR 'Chmrmaii of the .Commission on Elected by popular vote I • Interstate Clooperation ROBERT D. "BLUE LEGISLATURE President of the Senate ...K. A. EVANS Secretary of the. Senate. . W. j. ScARBOROrOH President Pro Tern Speaker of the House ...... G. T. KUE'JTER of the Senate,.. .RICHARD V. LEO Clerk of the House...... A. G. GoSiAFSON Senators Representatives Term Regular Session R...... ;.46 R...... 98 Senate.. .4years Second'Monday in January; biennially in D...... :... 4 D. ,...... 10 House.. .2 yeais odd years. Length: no constitutional limit. Total...... 50 Total .108 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION / • .••• / Administrative Members Senate Members House Members ROBERT L. LARSON, CAair.wa« AL MILLER ALLERT G. OLSON JOHN Ml GRIMES ^ A. E. AUGUSTINE ERNEST T. SMITH r J GHET B. AKERS ' R. R. BATESON FRED. S,CHWENGEL ; FLOYD JONES. WALTER j\ NOBLE ROBERT A. ROCKHILL J. E> HANSEN Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR; PRESIDENT OF SENATJE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General.'. . . ; CHARLES H. GRAHL Insurance ...... STERLING ALEXANDER Advertising.;,...... ; .RODNEY Q. SELBY Labor .. .CHARLES W. HARNESS Aeronautics..;....;.. .. LESTER G. ORCUTT Library (Archives and History).. .CLAUD R. COOK Agriculture...... HARRY D. LINN Library (Law). W. R. C. KENDRICK Audit...... ". ..,..-..C. B. AKERS Library (State), Traveling. BLANCHE A. SMITH Banking ...... N. P. BLACK Liquor Control ...... DICK R. LANE Budget...... R. E.JOHNSON / -GEORGE L. SCOTT Clciims...... R. E. JOHNSON Mines...... GEORGE DUCKWORTH Comptroller...... ;...... R. E.JOHNSON, Motor Vehicles ...... G. H. HESSE Conservation...... ^.... G. L. ZIEMER Old Age Assistance. ..;. .JOHN E. WIELAND Coapiorations : .CHARLES F. O'CONNOR Parks...... V. W. FLICKINGER Com:ctions ... P. F. HOPKINS Parole ...... C. E. GODFREY Education,. JESSIE M. PARKER Police ....'.-...... ALFRED W. KAHL Employment Service...... WILLIAM BARNES Printing...... '.... SHERMAN W. NEEDHAM Equalization of ) ^ Public Assistance.,...... JOHN E. WIELAND Assessments. . . . H, A. GRANTHAM Public Utilities and Railroads C. W. REED Fire Marshal...... JOHN STROHM Purchasing.'... ;.. HENRY WICHMAN o Fish and Game... \y^ .. • •: • •. W. E. ALBERT Securities...... —.\ ..... RALPH F. KNUDSEN Forestry...... V. W. FUCKINGER Taxation. .H; A. GRANTHAM Geology...... '...... H. G. HERSHEY Unemployment Compensation.. .J; R, PEFFERLE Health...... < WALTER L. BIERRING, M.D. ^ ,Water Resources. ...,,. i;... V. W> FLICKINGER Highways ..;...... ;... •'•. • •. .H. J. AHLERS, Welfare...... MARY HUNCKE liisane..!;...... :...... :..... P. F. HOPKINS Workmen's Compensatioh.... ELMER P. GORVVIN / r^ c •,—iii KANSAS Nickname. .The Sunflower State Bird. ._...... VVestern Meadowlark Motto...... ,... Ad Astra per Aspera Song. , ...... Home on the;Range . (To the Stars Through Difficulties) Entered the Union.. .January l9,1861 Flower...... Native Sunflower LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE KANSi^S INDUSTRIAL SERVICE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION State Library . Director (Acting): MAURICE E. FACER LOUISE MCNEAL, State'Librarian , Funds / AvaUable July 1, "l 947-June 30, 1948: Research Department $180,000. In addition, the commission may use ^ Kansas Legislative Gouncil unexpended balances of previous appropria tions, as of June 30, 1945 and 1946. The com '•:,.,• FREDERIC H. GUILD, Director mission .also is authorized to accept and use Revisbr of Statutes . . funds received as gifts and bequests. FRANKLIN CoRRicK . Activities: The Commission's primary The Roference Library maintains an in •purpose, is the promotion of industry, con dex of all legislation, and keeps a filie of sidering both the encouragement of new reference materials. The Research De- industrial enterprises and the expansipn of partment of the Kansas Legislative Council i«dustries now existing in Kansas. It also conducts research on legislative problems conducts various research programs %4o . The Revisor of Statutes collects informa point out the industrial opportunities in tion, assists in bill drafting, and supervises the state, and to devise new uses for Kansas statutory revision and compilation. ' agricultural products.. It encourages Ibur^ ists to visit Kansas, by disseminating in- " STATE MANUAL formation as to the natural advantages of. ^Birectorj) of Stale Officers, Boards, and Commissions the state, and its travel facilities. 'jTh^pugh , Issued by the Secretary of State " its divisibn, of aeronautics^, the Commission Published biennially ' encourages, fosters, and assists in the./dq- . velbpment of the aeronautical resources of Total Pages: 170 Current Volume: 1945-46 the Sitatei. . .« . . : Size in inches: 6 X 9 i ,^ The Dirc-tory contains a roster of federal, state, county, and judiciary officials; a post : STATISTICS office directory and a population table for Area (square miles)...... •...... 82,158 Kansas cities. Information concerning the Rank in Nation. .,.,..»..:...... 13th Population (estimated 1945)...... IJ.40,379 state capital and state flag, as well as his . Rank in Nation (1945) .,. .... 30th torical information, is provided. Density per square mile (1940).... i.. . . .21.9 Number of Representatives in Congress...... 6 . Kansas Governmental Guide Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 Published by the League of Total Revenue. .589,084,844 Kansas Municipalities Total Expenditures...... S90,8(i3,011 Contains de^riptions of the purposes, State University. . ... , University of Kansas Site...;...... Lawrence duties, and services of the various p\iblic Capital City..;.. ,....}...... Topeka and private agencies. This 160-page GM/.,, 105 (? J KANSAS 537 ^ OFFICERS Governor FRANK CARLSON Lieutenant Governor ...... ;... .FRANK L. HAGAMAN Secretary pf State...... FRANK J. RYAN Attorney General EDWARD F. ARN State Treasurer... RICHARD T. FADELY tate Auditor...... ;.. GEORGE ROBB KANSAS SUPREME COURT Chief Justice W. W. HARVEY Six Associate Justices Term Six years Elected by popular vote . •HON?TRANK L. HAGAMAN Gov ..rioR Chairman of tljc Commission on FRANK CARLSON . Intentatc Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate . FRANK L. HAGAMAN President Pro Tem of the Senate ..... E. A. BRILES Speaker of the House FRANK MILLER Secretary of the Senate ...... i .W. T. BISHOP Clerk of the House... .» HERMAN W. CRAMER Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D .1 D. ;i8 Senate.. .4years Second Tuesdiay in January, biennially in R.. 39 R ...107 House.. .2 years odd years. Length: no limit, but only 50 Total .40. Total...... 125 days with pay. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate, Members House Menjbers ...' FRANK CARLSON FRANK L. HAGAMAN, Chairman FRANK MILLER EDWARD F. ARN E. BEHT COLLARD HOWARD ADAMS (IGEGRGE ROBB JAMES A. CASSLER . « - .A. H. BENNETT W. G. HAMILTON MILTON POLAND WALTER F. MCGINNIS .-MAURICE E. EAGER (Acting) ELMER E. EUV\^R 5' ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant deneral..... MILTON R. MCLEAN Library (Law) LOUISE MCNEAL Advertising (Acting)...... ; .MAURICE E. EAGER Library (State).... ; ;LOUISE MCNEAL Agriculture .J. C. MOHLER Mines. .JOHN DELPLACE .Audit.. i GEORGE ROBB Motor Vehicles. CM. VOELKER Banking. . .BEN A. WELCH Old Age Assistance...... STANLEY HILL Budget-...... W. G. HAMILTON Parks .DAvfi LEAHY Conserviation f- • • • • •. .R.'C. LIND Parole .JOHN S. DAWSON Corporations T.'.. .FRANK J. RYAN Personnel '. .. . .ARTHUR A. HERRICK Cofrefitions...... PHIL R. HAWKINS Planning(Acting)...... MAURIQE E- EAGER Education .... /...... L. W. BROOKS Police..'. HUGH F. EDWARDS i=»i. Employment Service EDW, W. FRANZKE Printing FERD VOILAND, JR. ..Equalization of Assessments ..MARK L, BENNETT Public Assistanfce. . .STANLEY HILL ••• V Fu-e Marshal .....,;,.... CLYDE LATCHEM Public Instruction ...... L. W, BROOKS Fish and Game .. PAVE LEAHY Public Utilities and Railroads. . .J. A. ROBERTSOJT Forestry ...... DAVE LEAHY Purchasing.. ;... ED BURGE \ Geology .... .RAYMOND C. MOORE Securities...... GEORGE RICHARDSON He^alth. F. C. BEELMAN, M.D. Taxation. V. MARK L. BENNETT Highways...... ;..'...... ROY Cox Unemployment ComjSensatiori . .JOHN MORRISON Insane...... '. • .... ERLAND CARLSSON Veterans. .R^^OVERPECK Ihsiuance ...;..."...... FRANK SULLIVAN Water Resources...... GEottp S. KNAPP Labor . . ...,.-...... ; P. G. BAIRD Welfare.....-.,...... : .STANLEY HILL Library (Archives and History)... KIRKE.MECHEM Workmen's Compensation...... JOE NICKELL .-:•-,,••'. -- v-f KENTUCKY Nickname The Bluegrass State Bird ;...... 1.. . .; Cardinal Motto United We Stand, Divided We Fail Song*...... Mji Om Kentucky Home Flower...... Goldcnrod Entered the Union. . k .;.June 1,1792 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE POSTVVAR ADVISORY PLANNING SERVICE \, COMMISSION 5F KENTUCKY \ Department of Library and Archives Secretary: C.\Ri. B. WACHS MISS VIRGINIA E. ENGLE, State Librarian iLcgal Basis: Executive Order, November, 1>944 Kentucky Statute Revision Commission Activities: The. purpose of the Coilhrnis- ROBERT K. CULLEN, Reviser sion is to'dScertain the physical and human Services: Two agencies provide legisla- resources of the state, and to formulate tive reference service. The Department of - plians^a[nd make recommendations for full Library and Archives renders assistance to post>vai^ utilization and developrnent of the Legislative Council and to the Legis- Kentucky^'s. resources. It is carrying On its lators.^It aids in finding material for the~" works, through committees on agriculture, drafting of bills and keeps, a file of all bills natural resources, and public welfare, mili- introduced and of the Legislative Digest, tary affairs and returned veterans, indus- Laws and statutes of other states are avail- trial-relations, education, industrial plants able. Bill drafting is performed by the and opportunities, transportation, finance Statute Revision Commission whiph also and banking, organic laws and legislation, does some research in°connection with re coordination of federal, state, county, and quests for specific legislation. The Com city governmental activities. mission submits an analysis to the Legisla ture of what effect any proposed bill would have on existing statutes and indicates any deficiencies of form in a proposed bill. , STATISTICS STATE MANUAL Area; (square miles) 40,598 Rank in Nation .36th Kentucky Directory and Blue Book ' . Population (estimated. 1945)y:...... 2,578,179 FRANK K. KAVANAUGH Rank in Nation (1945)... .;..^.".,...... 18th Density per square, mile (1940) .y:,r , .70.9 Published biennially Number of Representatives in Congress .9 Total Pages: 208 Current Volume: 1946 FiscalYearJulyl,i945—June 30, 1946 Total Revenue , $92,023,0001 Size in inches: 4>^x 6K Total Expenditures 879,087,0001 The Kentucky Directory and Blue Book con State University...... University of Kentucky tains a complete directory of the three de Ske Lexington partments of the state government. There Capital City .. Franlcfort is an abstract of votes for governor, an in Population (1940).,...... 11,492 dex of newspapers published in Kentucky, Rank in State...... 12th lists of county officials, the state constitu Largest City...... ;.. rbouisville tion and the rules of Senate and House as . Population (1940). .. .319,077 well as biographical material concerning Number of Cities over 10,000 Population 13 members of the Kentucky General Assem Number of Counties...... 120 bly. There is an adequate index. 'U. S. Bureau of Census report 538 "T" KENTUCKY ' • 539 ^bFEICERS Governor .•.:..... EARLE~^G..,^LEMENTS Lieutenant Governor ^"^ ...; LAVVRENCE WETHERBY Secretary of State ...... GEORGE GL£NN HATCHER Attorney General ...... A. E. FUNK State Treasurer... .EDWARD F, SEILLER State Auditor .... HARRY N. JONES . . KENTUCKY COURT • OF APPEALS Chief Justice...... WILLIAM H. REES Six Associate Justices . <&^ HON. LAWRENCE WETHERBY Term...... Eight years GOVERNOR Chairman of the Ck)minittee on hlected by popular vote EARLE G. CLEMENTS Interstate Cooperation ;^ . ^ LEGISLATURE V : " President of the Senate.... .LAWRENCE WETHERBY President Pro Tern of the Senate...... (Vacancy) Speaker of the House : (Vacancy) Clerk of the Senate EMERSON BEAUCHA.MP Clerk of the House...... BYRON H, ROYSTER . Senators Representatives Term ^ Regular Session D. . 21 D.., ,. 6.9 Senate... 4 years First Tuesday after first Monday in Janu- R. . 17 R.'. ..;.;. ..31 House. ..2years ary, biennially in even years. Length: 60 \ Total...... 38 Total...... 100 days. COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Senate Members House Members (To be appointed) (To be appointed) ,Ex-qfficio Members LAWRENCE WETHERBY, CAajrman ' ADMIN^TRATIVE. OFFICERS Adjutant General...... G. H. MAY Library (Law)., .FRANK K. KAVANAUGH Advertising, .j...... GEORGE A. JOPLIN, JR. Library (Archives).. ! .VIRGINIA E. ENGLE Aeronautics. ... 1...... CHARLES H. GARTRELL. Liquor Control. .V...... CHARLES F. BROWN, JR. Agriculture...... HARRY F, WALTERS Mines. .HARRY THOMAS Audit . .HARRY N. JONES Motor Vehicles. ..L , ...... BEN J. BRUMLEVE Banking. . . .,. .1.... .H. H, SMITH Old Age Assistance .,AARON PAUL Budget ('.;. .F. L. PHILLIPS Parks. .\./.. ..- RUSSEL DYCHE Cc^ptrolier. . , ...... F: L. PHILLIPS Parole ...;...... '.., .JOSHUA B. EVERETT Conservation HAROLD A. BROWNING Personnel..'..:. ,. W. L. SMITH Corporations CHARLES K. O'CONNELL Planning...... ,^-,. :^. ....:. CARL B.SWACHS Corrections .....,.! .JOHN QUERTERMOUS Police (Actiiig) ....'.'. MAJOR HAYWARD GILLIAM Education .. '. .BOSWELL B. HODGKIN Printing. .D. B. G. ROSE Employment Service....; CYRIL Oi FIELDS Public Assistance. AARON PAUL Equalization of Assessments... . . O. M. HOWARD Public Instruction. . JOHN FRED WILLIAMS Fire Marshal...... ; CLYDE SMFTH Public Utilities , .T. B, MCGREGOR Fish arid Game ...,..:.... EARL WALLACE Public Works , CHARLES E. WHITTLE Fislteries (Marine).;...... MINOR CLARK Purchasing. .JOHN W. CROLEY Forestry. ^..... • H, B. NEWLAND Railroads.;;...... FRANK L. MCCARTHY Geology... ,...... D.J. JONES Securities..;...... E. H. FULLER Health ...... P. E. BLACKERBY, M.D. Taxation ...... O. M. HovktARD Highways . J. STEPHEN WATKINS Unemployriient Compensation, .... .H. A. BABB: Insane A. M.- LYON, M.D. KENNETH C. LONG Veterans '.-.•...... —T. ^ Insurance .,.:.. HARRY B. WILSON Water Resources .M. W. QUALLS Labor. .;;...... L. C, WILLIS Welfare .....; .JOHN QUERTERMOUS Library (Historical Society)...... B. E. HARDIN Workmen's Compensation.... .JOHN E. SHEPARU •'fco. \ •: LOUISIANA ' Nickname...... The Pelican State. Bird (unofficial) ^j^stern Brown Pelican Motto..... Union, Justice and Confidence Song. *. Song of Louisiana •^•\, Flower...... Magnolia Entered the Union... '.••'. .April 8,1812 T^ ^Y\ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE . ^ LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF SERVICE >; COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Director: D. Y. SMITH State Library Legal Basis: Act 204, Laws of 1944 EssAE M.CuLVER, Executive Secretary Funds Available July 1, 1947—June 30, 1948: $165,000 . I Services: Library facilities are very lim Activities: This is the official "sales pro ited, since the Law Library iS'located in motion and advertising" agency of the New Orleans, where it can serve as a law state, its duties under the law are, "to pro library for the supreme court, instead of mote the civic, industrial and commercial in the capitol at Baton Rouge, but every interests and the general welfare of the assistance possible is furnished. The fact State, to operate the;State Tourist Bureau,' that the library.has no legal documents and, particularly, to attract new industries except a few session laws makes the work, to the State." It operates under a board of very difficult. No legislative research work twelve busiriessmen who serve on a volun is done, but an attempt is made to locate tary basis, under appointment by the Gov reports and material from which legisla ernor. They are especially selected to rep tors may find pertinent data. Bill drafting resent each of the principal segments of the is referred to the attorney general's office. state's economy. The department also ad ministers the new Louisiana Tax Exemp tion Law for indiistries. The Economic De velopment Committee, formerly a part of STATE MANUAL this department handling postwar plan-, ninig, went out of existence in 1946 on its ROSUT OJ the Officials oj the State oj Louisiana own recommendation. . Issued by the Secretly of State . Published biennially ' STATISTICS ; Approx, Pages: 126 Current Volume: 1947 Area (square miles)....' .... L ... 48,506 =» Rankin Nation..: .. ...30th Size in inches: 6 X 9 Population (estimated 1945) 2,456,057 Rank in Nation (1945) ,20th. The Roster of Officials of the State of Loui . Density per square mile (1940)...... 52.3 Number of Representatives in Congress 8 siana contains a complete list of all mem Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, 1946 bers of the judicial,-legislative, and execu Total Revenue. .^«133,135,000 tive departments of the state government. Total Expenditures...... 5128,595,000 It further includes a list of mayors, parish State University...... Louisiana State University officials, and tax collectors in the state. Agricultural and Mechanical College Site....; .BatonRougey United States Senatbrs and Representa Capital City Baton Roug^ tives are also listed. The constitutional and Population (1940)... ..^ !.. ,34,719 statutory • authorizations for the various Rankin State...... 3rd departments of the state government are Largest City New Orleans Population (1940). .: .....:. .494,537 cited and the length of the terms of all of Number of Cities over 10,000. Population..... 10 r. ficials is'given. There is an index. Number of Parishes .-. .64 540 LOUISIANA 541 OFFICERS ••.,-.••.. ; i-- •. Governor. !.. .JAMES H. DAVIS Lieutenant Governo^. .J. EMILE VERRET Secretary of State , WADE O. MARTIN, JR. Attorney (Jeneral. ... FRED S: LEBLANC State Treasurer...;... .A. P. TUOWELL. State Audltcft-....;,... .L. B. BAYNARD SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA Chief Justice. .... CHARLES A. O'NIELL Six Associate Justices -Terra Fourteen years „ „ o T D Elected by popular vote ' HON. FRED S. LEBLANC • ' '^ '^ . GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on '^ JAMES H. DAVIS ^ Interstate Cooperation " V^^ %\^ • ,/; LEGISLATURE^ *;- JPresident of the Senate. J. EMILE VERRET President Pro Tern of the Senate " Speaker of the Houge R. NORMAN BAUER -,.,.., , .GROVE STAFFORD ' Secretary of the Senate... /.'...... R. A. GILBERT ^ Clerk of the House .LEE LAYCOCK Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D 39 D...... 100 Senate... 4 years Second Monday in May, biennially in even Total...... 39 Total...... 100 House... 4 years years. Length: 60 days. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Members FRED S. LE BLANC, Chairman D. Y. SMITH J. H. CAIN \ / DEWITT S. PYBURN Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRA'i'IVE OFFICERS Adjutant General. RAYMOND.H. FLEMING" Labor. ... \.-.., W. F. METZGER Advertising .;...... D. Y. SMITH ^ Library (Law)...... SELMA VILLARUBIA Aeronautics. ....'.. .• DEWITT L..,PYBURN Library (Statue).; ;.. ..ESSAE M. CULVER Agmculture^.. .*... ..•...... HARRY D. WILSON Liquor Contrm..; ...... ROLAND COCREHAM A\xdity.'7':'./^^^^...... h, B. BAVNARD Minerals,.... .V ...... ;. .JOSEPH L. MCHUOH Banking :f^ . A3- ..... WILFRED J. BEGNAUD .ROLAND COCREHAM Motor Vehicles\,...... v^-- Biidgfct;;.. \..«/!. x,... ;. .J. H. RESTER Old Age Assistance. W. S. TERRY, JR. ConservationX .... .".S ...... JOSEPH L. MCHUGH Parks^...... \ ..:...... WILLIAM W. WELLS Corjjorations.. .\,..."..... WADE O, MARTIN> JR. /Parole...... \ ...... W. E. DAVIDSON Corrections...... \„.... .•;...-.ROBERT L. PETTIT .Personnel.. . . .V ...... DAN S. MOORE Education...... ;...... !:'.''.JOHN E. COXE 'Planning and Public Works. D. L. PYBURN Employment Service...... ROBERT D. REEVES Police. ..W. D.ATKINS jEqualization of Assessments...... J.^H.J^AIN Printing and Purchasing -^ •^- •]• S. REILY Fire Marshal...... ;.... .CAMPBELL PALFERY Public Assistance...... WrS. TERRY, Jr. Fish and Game .L. S. MONTGOMERY Public Utilities and Railroads.... .N. B. KNIGHT Forestry J. E. MIXON Securij^ WILFRED J. BEGNAUD Health...... W. L. TREUTING, M.D. Taxati^fe-. ...;...... J. H. CAIN Highways. P. A. FRYE Unemplo^rient Compensation. . W. F. METZGER Ipsanc...... ^...... ROBERT L. PETTIT Veterans.."...... JOE DARWIN Insurance...... WADE Or MARTIN, JR. Welfare...... ; W. S. Xf RRY, JR. MAINE NiGkname. , .The Pine Tree State Bird...... Chickadee Motto.. . , .... . Dirigo (I Guide) Song. /State of. Maine Song Flower, . . .Pine Cone and Tassel Entered the Union... .March 15,1820 c LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE ^ MAINE DEVELOPMENT ' SERVICE COMMISSION State Library Chairman: R. N. HASKELL Legislative Reference Librarian Secretary: EVERETT OREATON ' Legal Basis: Revised Statutes: Chap. 35, Sec. 1 EDITH L. HARY . as amended Services: Past and pending legislation is Funds Available July 1, 1947-June'30, 1948: indexed and digested for the benefit of • $234,500 legislators and ojthers interested in public Activities: Its appropriation is used for questions. Copies of bills introduced in the the purpose of advertising and publicly legislature are filed and indexed. Studies setting forth "and displaying agricultural, of legislation in other states are prepared industrial, and recreational resources, ac and made available to aUAnterested citi tivities, and attractions of the state. Twen zens. ty-five per cent of the total appropriation must be expended in equal proportions for Legislative Research Committee the purpose of advertising and promoting SAMUEL H. SLOSBERG, Director the agricultural products of the state, and The Committee conducts research on advertising and prortioting the sea and legislative problems, and its director, upon shore fishing products of the state. It is request, assists members of the legislature, also empowered to carry on researcTi in re the governor, anjd other state officials in lation to the agricultural^ industrial, recre drafting bills. He also maintains a con ational, and natural resources of the state. tinuous system of statutory revision. ^. , ' ' STATISTICS V/ STATE MANUAL ;Area (square miles)...... 33,040 Rank in Nation. .'...... 38th i The Maine Register Population (estimated 1945).., :785,913 Issued by Fred L. Tower Company Rank in Nation (1945);...... 35th Density per square mile (1J)40) 27.3 ' Published annually Number of Representatives in |C6ngress 3 Total Pages: 1,054 • Current Volume: 1944-45 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-Junc 30, 1946 Total Revenue ...-...„...... 537,757,518 Size in inches: 6x9 Total Expenditures $35,700,261 The Maine Register, privately published, State University...... University of Maine is a complete directory of the state and Site. .:. h Orono" county, city and town governments of the \Gapital City. *. Augusta state. It^as over 1,000 pages of directory \ Population (1940)... ; .19,360 of businesses in the state, and a very con Rank in State 6th siderable amount of business advertising. Largest City...... •. .Portland The book contains a small generad index, Population (1940). ...:...... 73,643 and a manufacturers' section, classified by Nurabei- of Cities over 10,000 Population.. .. .10 location and products. Number of Counties...... /.. .•...... 16 542 I. ^ • MAINE 543 OFFICERS Governor. . . HORACE A, HILDRETH Lieutenant Governor...... •None Secretary of State .HAR:OLD I. Goss Attorney General.... RALPH W. FARRIS State Treasurer . .FRANK S. CARPENTER State Auditor...... FREDM. BERRY State Controller.;. .HARLAN H. HARRIS MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Chief Justice...... GUY H. STURGIS Five Associate Justices Term '. Seven years Appointed by governor with advice , and consent of the Council SENATOR BURTON M. CROSS ' GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on HORACE A. HILDRETH Interstate Cooperation . ' LEGISLATURE . \^ President of the Senate...... GEORGE D. VARNEY Speaker, of the House...... JOHN F. WARD ^Secretary of the Senate;. .. CHESTER T. WINSLOW Clerk of the House...... HARVEY R. PEASE \ Senators Representatives • Term Regular Session D\ 3 D. . . , 24 Senate... 2 years First Wednesday in January, biennially in R.\ .;...... 30^ R...... 127 House.. .2 years bdd ytars. Length: Sio constitutional limit. Total..-. 33 Total...... 151 fV • .-• ^ •• V . •; _ • ". • • A ^ ••-••• • " • • • ; •• \ •• • • • • •••: •. ;.•• • • -- -Y - ••• .. • ^ • - . • .• \ COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Admiriistrative Members Senate Membcrs\ House Members DAVIE) H; STEVENS BURTON M. CROSS, CAalrman CHAUNCEY R. ROBBINS, JR,'"~' ' HAROLD I. Goss CLARENCE S. CROSBY / CLEVELAND SLEEPER, JR. FRANK E. SOUTHARD GEOBCE B. MORRILL, JR. WENDELL R. ATHERTON . £r-o^«o//oTJorflj^yt/^mifrrj; THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE Secretary: HAROLD f. Gpss ^ . ' .. ', \ •••••'•" •'.•.• ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...;....;.GEORGE M. CARTER Library (Law)...... EDITH L. HARY Advertising '...... EVERETT GREATON Liquor Control ELFORD A. STOVER Aeronautics (Acting) HARRY UMPHREY Mines...... ,.; ! A. M. G. SOULE: Agriculture. . \...... ;... ALBERT K. GARDNER Motor Vehicles...... STANTON S. WEED Audit...... ;...... FRED M. BERRY Old Age Assistance...;...... PAOLINE A. SMITH Banking...... HOMER E. ROBINSON Parks ...... _^...... CHARLES P. BRADFORD' Budget and Claims...... RAYMOND C. MUDGE Parole ...... HARRISON C. GREENLEAF Comptroller HARLAN H. HARRIS Personnel. ,...... ;... EARLE R. HAYES Corporations...... BERNICE F, TIBBETTS Planning EVERETT GREATON Corrections. .HARRISON C. GREENLEAF Police. .LAURENCE C, UPTON Education...... HARLAN A. LADD Printing WILLIAM D. JARVIS Erriployment Service .PAUL E.JONES Public Assistance ",. .CHARLES S. BROWN Equalization of Assessments.,...... , (Vacancy) Public Utilities and Railroads. .. F. E. SOUTHARD Fish and Game ...... '; GEORGE J, STOBIE Purchasing...... '...... HOMER M. ORR Forestry. RAYMOND E. RENDALL Securities HAL G. HOYT Geology J- M- TREFETHEN Unemployment Health ....,...,.. .DEAN FISHER, M.D. fpompensation...... LLEWELLYN-C. FORTIEP Highwrays. STILLMAN E. WOODMAN V^eraris FRED W. ROWEH Insane .HARRISON C. GREENLEAF Vocational Education ...... MORRIS P. GATES Insurance .^ .xi.- • • • .DAVTD B..SOULE Water Resources: ...... MINER R. STACKPOLE Labor \...... MARION MARTIN Welfare. . ..FRANK W. HAINES Library (State)... .. MRS. MARION B. STUBBS Workmen's Compensation. . . . G. C. GRAY ^~. ^ Vi MARYLAND Nickname. .The Old Line State .. /\ ..•.-• •.. • •,;. Motto ...... Scuto Bonae Voluntatis Bird Baltimore Oriole Juae Coronasti Nos (With the Shield of Thy Good-will ' Song. . .Maryland, My Maryland Thou Hast Covered Us) Entered th& Union .April 2^, 1788: Flower..; . .Black-eyed Susan LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE ^ MARYLAND COMMISSION SERVICE ON POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION - Department of Legislative Reference AND DEVELOPMENT Independent Baltimore- Executive Director: L ALVIN PASAREW Status: Legislative Act: Chapter 981, Lavys of 1943 -j^ HORACE E. FLACK, Director ... .. —>. \^ , . , '^ • . Activities: The Commission has attempt- >S'^ri'zV«; An inquiry service is maintained ed to establish. reasonable estimates of for all branches of government. A careful postwar employment and unemployment, index has been kept of each bill introduced and has evaluated private and public post- into the general assembly, and of each or- war employment opportunities. Itsrecom- dinance introduced into the city council mendations are embodied in the report since 1908. It makes a sessional digest of MaryJ^dnd Post-War Employment and Prd=- bills by subject matter, and keeps a com- grams. By order of the Maryland Board of prehensive card index. It draefits a large Public Works, this agency was terminated percentage of all bills and ordi^nces, and^ as of September 30, 1946. Its unfinished 5 is custodian oif official records, documents, business was turned over to the State Plan- and archives of the City of Baltimore. The ning Commission, which includes in its attorney general drafts purely administra- work the same type of planning activities tiye measures. The Director of the Depart- as those carried on by the Commission on 5 ment serves also as the Secretary arid Di- Postwar Reconstruction arid Develop- rector of Research of the Maryland Legis- riient. Some of the work of the former iatiye Council. agency, therefore, will be continued by tiie . Planning Commissiori. - STATE MANUAL "" STATISTICS The Maryland Manual " * / -r \ ^'^ -.^-r . Area (square miles) ..-...... «....;.. .12,327 Issued by the Secretary of State Rank in Nation. .^...... 41st Population (estimated 194^ ...... 2,125,419 Published biennially ; , Rank in Nation (1945). .\ ...... ^.23r,^..d ., • , „ •,,„ _ xr 1 invt jy- Density per square mile (1.940)''.-: .'rrr."7:\S4':i Total Pages: 4.62 , Current Volume: 1945-46 Number of KepresentalivTs in Congress.. .'. Size in inches-6 X 9 ,Fisca>¥earjuly 1, 1945->ne 30, 1946 . "'^^ .: ., '" incnes. o x^v . ^^^^^ State Revenue.. .$89,898,0001. The Maryland Manual contains a com- ^ Total Expenditures... / ._...... 585,572,0001 nlptpdirertni-vof theexenitive Wislative State University .University of Maryland plete airectory oi tne executive, legislative, g^^...... Baltimore and College Park and judicial 4gpartments.of the state gov- Capital Gtty...... ; .Annapolis: ernment, including, also, the complete Population (1940)...... ,13,069 state payroll. It gives a great deal of infor- Rankin State...... ,...8th mationconcerningcounties^andadescrip- "^f^^^^, a'9Vo)-.:\V;;.:/;;;;:;;'^85'vpfl' tion of the Several bureaus ot the state gov- Number of Qties over 10,000 Population...... 9 ernment in adequate detail, and a copy of Number of Counties .....,....".. 23 the state constitution. --. «U. S. Bureau of Ccnsus.rcport : MARriAND 545 OFFICERS Governor..WILLIAM PRESTON XIANE,JR. . Lieutenant Governor..',...;... ..None Secretary of State. BERTRAM L. BOONE, II Attorney Generaji...... HALL HAMMOND State Treasure!-...... HOOPER S. MILES State Auditor _ DANIEL L. .GLAYLAND, III State Comptroller JAMES J. LACY : MARYLAND COURT . OF APPEALS Chief Judge...... OGLE MARBURY Six Associate Judges Term Fifteen years ' HON. BERTRAUL.BOONE,.II Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on WILLIAM PRESTON LANE, JR."'" Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE . President of the Senate. .. .JOSEPH R. BYRNES Speaker of theHouse...... C. FERDINAND SYBERT ^Secretary of the Seriate. ... G. ANDREV^T SHAAB Clerk of the House JOHN A. MENTON Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D ..18 D 87 Senate.. .4years First Wednesday in January, biennially in R...... 11 R 36 House... 4 years odd years. Length: 90 days: Total 29 Total 123 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members BERTRAM L- BOONE, II, Chairman L. HAROLD SOTIIORON ALBERT Ll SKLAR WALTER N; KIRKMAN WiLMER C, CARTER CHARLES M. BANDIERE HENRY P. IRR STANFORD HOFF HARRY I. WARREN DAVID MCLAUGHLIN CHARLES M. SEE WALLACE H. WHITE EARLE R. BURKINA Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General ;... . MILTON A. RECKORD Library (Archives and History).:. M. L. RADOFF "Aeronautics MAJ.GEN. P'HILIP HAYES Library (Law)...... NELSON J. MOLTER . "•^--s. Agriculture...... ;... :•. .H. C. BYRD Library (State)...... MRS. FRANK C. HORIGAN Audit.;...... DANIEL L. GLAYLAND, Ill- Mines...... JOHN J. RUTLEDGE Banking. .' .J. MILLARD TAWES Motor Vehicles...... W. LEE ELGIN Budget; :.'. .V/ALTER N. KIRKMAN Old Age Assistance .J. MILTON PATTERSON Comptroller .JAMES L. LACY Parks . . (Vacancy) Conservation...... JOHN E. CLARK Parole...... • ...... F. MURRAY BENSON 'Corporations. .JOSEPH H, A. ROOAN Personnel-...... ,:.; .WALTER D. OWENS Corrections...-..:...'... .REUBEN OPPENHEIMER Planning . . .. . L ALVIN PASAREW Educ^on. .TASKER G. LOWNDES Police. .BEVERLY OBER Employirient Service. WALTER D. OVTBUS Public ,Assistance...... J. MILTON PATTERSON Equalization of Assessments JOSEPH H. A. ROCAN Public Utilities and Riailroads...... C. B. BOSLEY Fish and Game...... GARNER W.DENMEAD Purchasing .^.EUGENE G: CONNOR Forestry ...... ^...... (Vacancy) Seciirities...... J. MILLARD TAWES Geology .JOSEPH T. SINGEWALD Taxation. .JOSEPH H. A. ROGAN Health...... :... .ROBERT Hj RILEY, M.p. Unemployment Compensation. .RUSSELL S. DAVIS . Highways .ROBERT M. REINDOLLAR Veterans. ; .JOSEPH A. CANTREL kisane...... "...GEORGE H. PRESTON, M.D. Water Resources.....;.. .JOSEPH T. SU^TGEWALD "Insurance...... CLAUDE A. HANLEY Welfare...... '...... ,.. .J. MILTON PATTERSON, Labor (Acting).... .'•... MRS. MARGARET KIMBLE Workmen's Compensation EMANUEL GQRFINE y-N;, MASSACHUSETTS Nickname. .The Bay State ^ird;...... Chickadee Motto. . . .'.]...... Ense Petit Placidam Sub LibertateQuietem Song (unofficial)...... Massachusetts . (By the Sword We Seek Peace, Tree,.... .^:...... Elm •• but Peace Only Under Liberty) Entered the Union, . February 6,1788 Flower. .Mayflower ^ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES - AGENCIES \ \\ Legislative Reference Division The Staite Plahhing Board carries oh the ^ .. Massachusetts State Library long-range planning activities of the state. ETHEL M. TURNER This Board was established by Acts of Legislative Reference Assistant 1935, chap. 475. The chairman is Elisa beth M. Herhhy and the appropriation for A: Counsel to the House of Representatives 1947-1948 is $61,920. HENRY D. WiGGiN The Public Building Commission was ' Counsel to the Senate created by chap. 466 of the Acts of 1947 to prepare and maintain a long-range pro :, FERNALD HUTCHINS gram for such construction as shall be fi- . Services: The Legislative Reference Divi nanced by special appropriations, by bond sion carries on research. It is a part of the issue, or by federal funds and which are State Library which has a collection of over estimated to cost not less than S5,000. 660,954 cataloged • volumes on a wide va A special commission was established to riety of subjects. The offices of the Counsel study veterahs problems, including hous to the House stttd the Counsel to the Senate: ing and hospital facilities. The Committee are aigencies for drafting and revising bills on Highways ahd Motor Vehicles- was and for the continuous consolidation of the authorized to sit during the recesses of 1947 laws. and 1948 to recommend a program of \ highway and traffic improvements. STATE MANUAL / STATISTICS Alanual for the General Court Area (square miles)...... ;...... 7,839 Rank in Nation. . .44th Issued by Clerk of the Senate and Population (1945)-.., 4.493,281 • Rank in Nation (1945,est. pop.)...... 9th . Clerk of the Hou'se Density jier square mile (1945)...... '573,2 Published biennially . • Number of Representatives in Congress...... 14 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, 1946 Total Pages: 741 Current Volume: 1947-48 Total Revenue...'...... 5233,234^0001..: \ Total Expenditures...... $233,313,0001 Size in inches: 4Xx 6K^ Institution of Higher Education The Massachusetts Manual Jor the General .',...... University of Massachusetts Site...... Amherst Court contains an adequate and complete QO Capital City. ..;.... ;... ..Boston directory of the executive, legislative, and Population (1945)...... ; 766,386 judicial departments of the state govern Rank ill State...... 1st ment. A complete directory of county offi Largest City. Boston cers is included, and considerable historical Population (1945)...... 766,386 Number of Cities over 12s000 Population,;.. .39 material concerning the state. Included Number of Towns over 10,000 Population ,, . 39 are Rules of the Htfuse of Representatives, Nuniber of Counties...... ;...... 14 Rules of the Senate, and Joint Rules. 'U. S. Bureau of CJensus Report, ' •V, 546 \ \ MASSACHUSETTS: 547 OFFICERS Governor...... ROBERT F. BRADFORD LieuienanfTSovernor .. .1 ; ARTHUR W.GOOLIDGE SecMtary of State.. .FREDEWO W. COOK Attorney General,.CLARENCE A. BARNES State Treasurer... .. LAURENCE GURTIS State Auditor...... THOMAS Ji BUCKLEY State-Gomptroller ...... FRED A. MONQEWICZ MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME; JUDICIAL COURT Chief Justice .... .STANLEY E, QUA. Six Associate Justices Term. . . . i.....During good behavior SENATOR EDWARD W. STAVES Appointed by governor with advice GOVERNOR Chairman of the (Hommission on and consent of Council ROBERT F. BRADFORD Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate, .DONALD W. NICHOLSON Speaker of the House. .FREDERICKB. WILLIS Clerk.ofthe Senate . . . . IRVING N. HAYDEN Clerk of the House... .LAURENCE R. GROVE' Senators Representatives Term Regular Session R.. .24 R .....144 Senate... 2 years First Wednesday in January, annually.' D...... 16 t)...... 96 House. i. 2 years Length: no constitutional limit. Total...... 40 Total, . . . ..240 GOMMISSION%N INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members JOHN A. DALY EDWARD W. STAVES, GEORGE WARD STETSON, EUSABETH M. HERLIHY Chairman Vice Chairman DANIEL J. BOYLE SUMNER G. WHITTIER HOLLIS M. GOTT HAROLD O. COOK JOHN E. POWERS HARLAND BURKE LAURENCE CURTIS HENRY L. SH/|^TTUCK RICHARD S. BOWERS , FRED A. BLAKE Secretary:Jona V>!. PLAISTED JOHN J. TOOMEY V ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General... .WILLIAM H. HARRISON, JR. Library (Archives and History). .W. J. SULLIVAN Advertising...... POWELL M. CABOT Library (Law) • • • • • DENNIS A. DOOLEY Aeroaautics LESTER WATSON Library (State), .DENNIS A. DOOLEY Agricultiure...... ,.. FREDERICK E. COLE Liquor Control. . .GERALD L. FOLEY 0 Audit...... ; THOMAS J. BUCKLEY Motor Vehicles; .. .RUDOLPH F. KING Banking...... TIMOTHY J^ DONOVAN Old Age Assistance. . . .. ROBEIIT P. CURRAN Budget. CHARLES W. GREENOUOH Parks.. GEORGE J. KEVILLE Coniptroller...... FRED A; MONCEWICZ Parole...... MATTHEW W. BULLOCK Cot^ervation.....; ARCHIBALD K. SLOPER Personnel THOMAS J. GREEHAN Corporations.....;.... HENRY F. LONG Planning. . . . . ELISABE;5H M. HERLIHY Corrections...... '.J. PAUL DOYLE Police...., .- • •. • • • • • • •**•• • -JOHN F,; STOKES Education .JOHN J. DESMOND, JR. Public Assistance...... ROBERT P. CURRAN Epployment Service.. KENNETH V. MINIHAN Public Utilities anc^ Railroads.... :"^. .C. J. MEINS Equalization of Assessments.... .HENRY F. LONG Public Works...... ;. .WILLIAM H. BURACKER Fire Marshal...... EDWARD H. WHITTEMORE Purchasing... V...... GEORGE J. CRONIN Fish and Game...... JAMES F. POV^R Securities...... :.!....EDWARD MOLONEY Forestry...... RAYMOND J. KENNEY Taxation...... HENRY F. LONG Health...... ,. .\fLADO L. GETTING, M.D. Unemployment Compensation.-. R.^^ MARSHALL Highways '.-... .WILLIAM H. BURACKER"- Veterans...... FRAMcya X. COTTER Insane...... CUFTON T. PERKINS Water Resources .RICTIARD K. HALE Insurance,:...... CHARLES F. J. HARRINGTON Welfare..;... v. .o...... PATEMCK A. TOMPKINS -, Labor...... ••...; .DANIEL J. BOYLE Workmen's Conapensatjon.. /EUQENE H. GIROXWC \. MIGHIGAN Nickname. ...;. The Wolverine State yf^^^^-^X^^ /^'^^^W^^X Bird...... Robin •Motto...... SiQuaerisPeninsulam /S/-^W^U^^Jr\\ • '• Amoenam Circumspice I" ©[^Sn^l l-\ Song (unofficial) (If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, 1^1 («te|^ 1^1 ' • ' ' ' ' Michigan, My Michigan • Look Around You) \"^.\AS^^fe«A?/ r . j ^u TT • T O/: ioa-7 V>"^^^^^^*/ EnteredtheUmon.. January 26,1837 Flower...... Apple Bldsson^ N&^^^!^ - \ .. • -\- ' • . • . ; ' / "^ '• -''".••.' • .. " ' ,, ^ LEGISLATIVE^REFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF SERVICE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT . Legislative Service Bureau Director to be appointed Secretary of the Senate Legal Basis: Act 302, Laws 1947 Clerk of the House . . . . r^, ^ . '. ^i. i- EUGENE F.SHARKOFF, Director . ^f/^i-^/ze^f; The ..Commission as^ the di- MRS. FRANCES F. ROVCE reeling body of the department, which suc- Chief, Bill Drafting Section ceeds the State Planning Commission, IS to ALBA F WERT' devise and direct an economic develqp- Ghief, Research Section "^^nt program; to seek new industrial en- •• terprise for the state and foster desirable Services: The Bureau does legislative re- growth and diversification of agriculture, /search work and bill drafting, maintains industry, and commerce; to make recom- an inquiry service, a compilation of stat- mendations to the governor for the general utes and numerous other services to legis- purpose of guiding and accomplishing a lators and governnient departments. coordinated and efficient development; to •Advisory Board: Henry M. Butzel, Fred I. encourage" and assist in planning by po- Chase, John P. Espie, Colin L. Smith, litical subdivisions of the state and to act Harry F, Hittle^ Norman Philleo, Howard as liaison agency concerning economic de- R. Carroll, E. Blythe Stason, and Edson R. velopment, .public vi^orks prograrhs, and Sunderland. employment problems; and to represent the state in problems of regional planning ' \ and development beyond its borders! . ••l\- -,: STATE MANUAL^^^^^, •. /^^ The Michigan Manual . STATISTICS Issued by the Secretary of State Area (square miles)...... 96,720 m. „ . ,.V^ , . . . ,, Rank in Natidbu ....10th Published bienmally Population (estimated 1.945)...... ;5,471,774 a Total Pages: 845 Current Volume: 1945 Rank in Nation (1945)...... : .7th • Size in inches: 6Kx 9K Density per square mile (1940).. ..'T?. ...92.2 •'•-•,• Number of Representatives in Congress...... 17 The Michigan Manual h a complete di- Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, 1946 rectory of the executive,"" legislative, and Total Revenue.... •...... $373,695,0001 judicial departments of the state govern- Total Expenditures."T^...."...... $348,305,0001 ment. It contains reports of the several State University.,:.. I. ..University of Michigan heads of state departments arid a large Site — Ann Arbor amount of biograbhical material concern- Capital Qty.... .:...... Lansing ing state officers, legislators, and judges, ^^l^"^-•-•'•••••• -•''^^ An adequate abstract of votes of the last - Largest Qty. ?t'.'.. • .".".":'.. Detroit' •'4 election is to be found. Included, also are Population (1940).. .1,623,452 , numerous tables- showing congressional, Number of (Cities over 10,000 Population..;. .43 senatorial, and representative districts of Number of Counties...... :...... 83 the state. There is a complete index. lu.s. Bureau o^c cnsus. report ••••,••;,' ' - ••>;.• • >•,••"• 548/';v, '"^ •" - •/„ •-.. •^' •• • •;;- • "V- •:-. • •.. • ^•-" S:.. MICHIGAN , 549 OFFICERS Governor. >...... KIM SIGLER Lieutenant Governor EUGENE C. KEVES Secretary of State. . IF. M. ALGER, JR. Attorney General... .EUGENE F. BLACK ^State Treasurer...... D. HALE BRAKE Auditor General...... MURL K. ATEN ? s .MICHIGAN ^ SUPREME COURT Chief Justice...... '. LELAND W, CARR • Seven Associate Justices Term...... •. .Eightyears Elected by popular vote HON. D. HALE BRAXB GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on KIM SioLER Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate.... . EUGENE C. KEYES Speaker of the House VICTOR A. KNOX President Pro Tcm Speaker Pro Tern of the Senate.;..'...... HARRY F. HriTLE of the House BERT J. STOREY Secretary of the Senate ..;.... FRED L CHASE Clerk of the House .NORMAN PHILLEO t~m Senators . Representatives Term '' Regular Session D,.... .4 D.....;...... 5 Senate... 2 years First Wednesday in January, biennially in Rl...... 28 R...... 95 House...2years ,.odd years. Length: no constitutional limit. Total...... 32 Total...... 100 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members . House Members D. HALE BRAKE, Chairman JAMES T. MILLIKEN JOSEPH E, WARNER EUGENE B. ELLIOTT • G, ELWOOI) .BONINE JOHN W. BANNASCH EUGENE F. BLACK . ' ELMER R. PORTER EDWARD W. FREY JOHN A; PERKINS HARRY F. HITTLE ARNELL ENGSTROM •FRED M. ALGER, JR. OTTO W. BISHOP T. JEFFERSON HOXIE Ex-officio,Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAI|ER OF HOUSE'. '%:.•>.' •Sftr^/ar)': MRS. MEUTA LANNING. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER^ Adjutant General...... LEROY PEARSON Library (Archives and History)... .LEWIS BEESON Aeronautics. . ...-.... .FLOYD E. EVANS LiBrary (Law)^. CHARLOTTE DUNNEBACKE Agriculture.- . CHARLES FIGV Library (State)..:... ;... .MRS. L. D. FVAIJ) Audit...... MuRL K. ATEN Liquor Control...... OWEN J. CLEARY Bianking...... " ^...... E. WILLIAM NELSON Mines...... '.,...... '.. . . . G. E. EUDY Budget. •...... JOHN A. PERKINS Motor Veihicles .LEE C. RICHARDSON Claims...... "^ ...... r-- •. ERMA HALLUMS -Old Age Assistance...... WILLARD J. MAXEY Conservation...... P, J. HOFFMASTER Parks, ,. i.'...... , . .A. G. ELMER Corporatioiis...... HOWARD M, WARNER Parole. . . .; ...... A. Ross PASCOE Corrections. . . ..GARRETT HEYNS PersonneL ,..'...... '. THCMAS J. WILSON Education. .'...... ;...... EUGENE B. ELLIOTT Planning •. . .-,...... (Vacancy) Employment Service...... T, A. DOWNEY Police...... ;.. DONALD S. LEONARD Equalization of Assessments.....; Louis M. NIMS Public Assistance,...... WILLARD J. MAXEY Fire Marshal...... ARNOLD C- RENNER Public Utilitits ...... STUART B. WHITE Fish.;.., ..FRED A, WESTERMAN Purchasing...... EUGENE A. GUMV Forestry."...... MARCUS SCHAAF Railroads FAY N. PIERCE Game...... H. D. RUHL Securities...... !.. .HOWARD M. WARNER Geology. G, E. EDDY. Taxation. .,...... i,. .Louis M, NIMS Health...... WILLIAM DE KLEINE, M.D. Unemployment Compensation...... E. CUSHMAN Highways :...... CHARLES ZIEGLER Veterans ...... ELMER J. HANNA Insane -^.;...... CHARLES F. WAGO Water Resources.... WILLIAM DE KLEINE, M.D. Insurance.: DAV;T) A. FORBES Welfare...... : .WILLARD J. MAXEY Labor...... ; GEORGE W. DEAN VVorkmen's Compensation.; .^.. . .JAMES L. HILL MINNESOTA Nickname. The Gopher State Bird (unofficial). ..American Goldfinch Motto'...... ; .. UEtoile du Nord Song.....;...... Hail! Minnesota (The Star of the North) ^11 ' Entered the Union..... May 11,1858 ' Flower. i. .e...... Moccasin Flower LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, SERVICE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Legislative Research Coinraittce Commissioner: TAMES W. CLARK LOUIS C. DORWEILER, JR., Director of Research Legal BaJsis: Legislative Aetf-1947. Funds Available July 1, 1947—June 30, 1948: State Law Library • $137,230 > / • MRS. JOSEPHINE W. SMITH, Librarian Activities: The 1947 Legislature upon rec Services: The 1947 Legislature desig ommendation of the Governor combined nated a Research Committee to render into a newly created Department of Busi legislative reference service. This Com ness Research and Develppmeafrj: three mittee is empowered to compile and assem- agencies concerned with planmng and . ble information on any subject before the development activities. The Minnesota legislature. Its primary purpose is to Tourist Bureau, the Minnesota Resources . gather information and provide material Commission and.the Minnesota Postwar to be used by the legislators in their work. Council were eliminated as separate de Some legislative reference.and research partments, the new agency taking their work is done by the state library. , place. , STATISTICS ' ; : Area (square miles)...... 1... .-.v;.84,286 STATE-MANUAL Rank in Nation ...... 11th Minnesota Legislative Manual Population (estimated 1945)...... 2,497,485 Compiled and distributed by the Rank in Nation (1945) ...;.., . .;.. .^9th Density per square mile (1940)...... ^'.^4.9 Secretary of State Number of Representatives in Congress. ...,. .'5 Published biennially •' (• Q-: .-') •y C^ *,-•' . MrNNESOTA 551 OFFICERS Governor . ,, •. LUTHER VV. YOUNGDAHL Lieutenant Governor - ...... ,'..... C. ELMER ANDERSON Secretary of State...... MncE HOLM Attorney General;. .J. A. A. BURNQUIST State Treasurer .... JULIUS A. SCHMAHL Statc Auditor...... STAFFORD KINO MINl^JESOTA ^ SUPREME COURT Chief Justice...... CHARI,ES LORING . Six Associate, Justices Term. .Sixyears • HON. M. Ji HoFruANN Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on - LUTHER: W. YOUNGDAHL Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE > President of t^ie Senate...... C. ELMER ANQPRSON Sjieaker of the House...... LAWRENCE M. H.M.L Secretary of the Senate...... H.-VrVoRREY Clerk ofjthe House... N G.H.LEAHV. Senators " . Representatives Term " RegiXlar Session Total. . . :.. .67 Total...... 131 Senate...4years Tuesday after first Monday in January, * J House... 2 years biennially in odd years. Length: 90 days. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Adrninistrative Members ' Senate Members HouSe Members M, J, HOFFMANN, Chairman A. O. SLETVOLD LOUIS W. HILL, JR. JAMES W. CLARK VAL IMM FREDERICK P. MEMMER R. A. TROVATTEN A. R. JOHANSpN ALF il. BERGERUD GEORGE B. SJOSEUUS • GORDON ROSENMEIER P. KE^JNETH PETERSJON EARL I.,.' BERG, Secretary THOMAS P. WELCH E. J, WiNDillLLER Ex'officio Honorary Members: T,HE GOVERNQR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General. .ELLARD A; WALSH Library (Archives and .History")..,... A. J. LARSEN Advertising ...... JAMES W. CLARK Library (Law) ;..: JOSEPIUNE W. SMITH Aeronautics '. LESLIE L, SGHROEDER Library (State) .JOSEPHINE W. SMITH Agricultui^c...... R. A. TROVATTEN Liquor Control. .DUDLEY C. ERICSON Audit:...... ; STAFFORD KING Mineis*., .. RAY D. NOLAN Banking...... ". F. A. AMIJNDSPN Motor Vehicles .J. P. BENGSTON Budget. EARL L. BERG Old Age Assistance. ...;. .JARLE B. LEIRFALLOM Claims . . . ;... .J. A. A. BURNQUIST Parks. ...-:..-.'., ... .1...... '.L.' E. FIERO Comptroller...... R. A. GOLLING Parole .'. R. C. BRUSTUEN Conservation. .\. .C. S. WILSON, Personnel. , .. • ROBERT D. STOVER Corporations ,...... — ..-: MIKE HOLM Police...... •..."...... EARL M. LARRIMER Correctiotis...... CARL HV SV/ANSON Printing HERMAN MEYER ^Education . . . . > . . . .DEAN M. SCHWEICKHARD Public Assistance ...... JARLE B," LEIRFALLOM . 'Employnieht Service ...VICTOR CHRISTG,AU Public Ujfilities ;.... N. j. HOLMBERO Equalizatipn of Assessments. G. HOWARD SPAETH Purchasing.. .P. T. PETERSON Fish and Game...... ;..». i.....;FRANK BLAIR Railroads . .\ . /...... :.... N. J. HOLMBERG Forestry...,.;...;.....'...... HENRV G. WEBER Securities.....'...!.. .THEODORE N, OFSTEDAHL Geology..;...... ;...... RAY D. NOLAN Taxation; .G. HOWARD'SPAETH Health...;.... :... A. J.' CHESLEY, M-.D. Unemployment Compensation.. . .V. CHRISTOAU • Highways;....»..., M. J. HOFFMANN Veterans...... v...... WILLIAM E. REVIER Insane...... CARL H. SWANSON Water Resourceslv...... WALTER OLSON Insurance. .NEWELL R.JOHNSON Welfare...... ;... >>.. .JARLE B. LEIRFALLOM Labor...'... c...... • BERT A, MCKASY Workmen's Compensation .,^ERT A, MCKASY • . .1 A. E. RAMBER'G A.^. RAMBERG 0 I J.P.WILLIAMS J. P. WILLIAMS .•'.;.• I- V •• MISSISSIPPI Nicknanie The Magnolia State Bird. Mockingbird Motto. '. Virlute et Armis Song. . Mississippi (By Valor and Arms) Entered the Union December 10, 1817 Flower...... Magnolia LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAJL ' SERVICE AND INDUSTRIAL BOARD . State Library Director: WILLIAM E, BARKSDALE MRS^ TUUA BAYLIS STARNES, Librarian Legal Basis: Legislative Act: Chap. 241, Laws 1944 Funds Available July 1, 1946-Jane 30, 1948: Services: Axi extensive legal and general 5200,000 ^ ' reference library is maintained, and, dur Activities: The Board, which succeeds the ing legislative sessions, special attention is Board of Development, is charged with the given to legislative work. A source bibli responsibility of making effective public ography is kept, as»well as a comprehen policy which declares that a balanced eco sive file of current legislative problems. nomic development of the state is deemed Bill drafting is done by the attorney gen essential and that reconversion from war eral's office. There is no official legislative time economy to peacetime pursuits re reference department, but the state libra quires a planning pirogram for readjust rian is elected by the legislature. - ment of employment. To this.end it is to cooperate with similar agencies of^other ' STATE MANUAL • states and wdth local' planning agencies for The Mississippi Blue Book the purpose of securing coordijiated, eco nomic development within the state; to Issued by the Secretary of State operate a research laboratory for findiijg . Published biennially new uses for state products, etc. Total Pages: 414 ;" Current Volume: 1943-45- Size in inches: 6 x 9 u The Mississippi Blue Book is a complete STATISTICS directory of the executive, legislative, and Area (square miles) 46,865 judicial departments of the state. Also in Rank In Nation...... ;. 31st cluded is a directory of city and county •tat Population (estimated 1945). 2,086,377 officials and an abstract of votes for federal Rank in Nation (1945)...... 25th and.state officials at the last primary and Density per square mile'(1940)...... ^. .46.1 general elections? There are lists of newspa pers published in Mississippi and consider Number of Representatives in Congress...... 7 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 • able miscellaneous inforrtiation concerning Total Revenue...... 4.., .876,841,260 the state. Included in the book are descrip Total Expenditures. .$71,912,279 tions of the powers, duties, and activities of State University. University of Mississippi the several state departments, institutionSj ,, . Site. .University \ and, agencies. The history, resources, in Capital City ...'...-. .Jackstfn dustrial and cultural development of the .Population (1940)^ . : .^...... 62,107 st^te are 9utlined and* the legal status, Rank in State; .....:. . . :... V.'. .1st powers and classification of the municipal Largest City. ,...... Jackson ities of the state ^re listed in tabular form. Population <'l 940)...... /... 62,107' The Blue Book contains a number of illus Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.,..; .12. trations and maps. There is an index. Number of Counties; \. .\_.__.^...... ,.'.. 82 552 ••Viu,- MISSISSIPPI \ 553 OFFICERS Governor .. . : . . FIELDING L. WRIGHT Lieutenant Governor .... SAM LUMPKIN Secretary of State ... HEBER A. LADNER Attorney General GREEK L. RICE State Treasurer....'. .ROBERT W. MAY State Auditor ...... CARL N. CRAIG MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT Chief Justice ...... SYDNEY S.MITH Five Associate Justices Term '. . . Eight years SENATOR W. L. CAUCHMAN Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR Chairman of the Commission on FiELDiNO L. WRIGHT Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE " —. "• 1K -' •- • . . • . - , President of .the Senate.., ..SAM LUMPKIN President Pro Tem of the Senate. . OSCAR WOLFE Speaker of the House WALTER SILLERS Secretary of the Senate. . . .WALTER DELL DAVIS Clerk of the House (Vacancy) Senators . Representatives Term ' Regular Session D...... 49 D.... .140 Senate,..4 years , Tuesday after first Monday in January, ' .. Total.-. .. ..140 House... 4 years biennially in even years. Length: no con- '. " stitutional limit. , COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Membejcs Senate Members House Members GUY M. MCCULLEN .. . W. L. CAIUGHMAN, W. A. WINTER . WALTER;, SPIVA Chairman T. F. SNOWDEN A. S. GOODY J. E; BURCH . DoY R. KNIGHT RALPH HAYS J. W. HARDVVICK MARTIN M. MILLER W. E. BARKSDALE E. L. LOWE F. H. PARKER ROBERT G. GILLESPIE L. B. PORTER ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... WILLIAM P. WILSON Labor,. .._.... .J. W. DUGGER, NI.D. Advertising...... \..... W. E. BARKSDAIIE Library (Archives and History)..W: D. MCCAIN Agriculture ".". .S. E. CORLEY }; MISSOURI Nickname'. . The Show-Me State Bird...... ;;...... Bluebird Motto.... Saius Populi Suprema Lex Esto (Let the Welfare of the People Song...... (Three unofficial) Be the Supreme Law) Entered the Union. . .August 10,1821 Flower Hawthorn : LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE MISSOURI STATE \ SERVICE DIVISION OF RESOURCES -.- .. Committee on Legislative Research AND DEVELOPMENT WILLIAM R. NELSON, Director of Research ^. ,, ^ , . T r. * • T^- Director: HUGH DENNEY ,4;h AMOS L. BURKS, Assistant Director TIC r. . i-. . • "•'•e- . %r' . Size in inchesi 6 X 9 • The Official Manual of the State of Missouri ^^ea (square miles) ...;....;•..... 69 420 is a complete dirextoryof the state govern- p^^;^^^^ -^^-r ][•- [,^^ ;. ment and of county and municipal officers, ^^ .„ Nation'(1945)...... : . .10th It contains extensive historical information, Density per square mile (1940)..-: 54.6 • an index to hist^ical features appearing in Number of Representatives in Congress...... 13 previous issues, 1879-1944, and material Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 . • descriptive of departments'of T:he state gov- Total'Revenue:...... ,.. 5142,241,829 " ernmerit and state institutions. Included is Total E.xpenditurcs ...... SI 20,564,442 an interstate directory, a national dh-tfc- State University.-...... University of Missouri tbry, 1940 census reports for the state, and ^ Site...... :.... ^Coiumbia an abstract of votes of the most recent dec- C^Ftal Qty. ••--••••• •••••• • '^''^^"''^^^ll tion. It is handsomely illustrated ana con- ,R°a^tn slate , ['.::::::::::':::'.['.':.'.8th .tarns both an extensive table of contents Largest City. ... .St. Louis and anadequate index. The Missouri Man- Population (1940) 816,048 ual ranks as one of the leading state year- Number of Cities over ipjOOO Population.... .22 books of the country. Number of Counties...... '...... 114 • •' ' ;.•..-:. ,'" • -'. •.•••• _.,. i,fy,:„~ ". ••-:: ii • • • • . . •• . - "'. • ^. .... - J j_t • , .^ . • . •• —^"^""nT-— t . ^ ^t.:'; •^ • MISSOURI 555 ' i OFFICERS Governor...... ;. PraL M. DONNELLY Lieutenant Governor. WALTERN. DAVIS Secretary of State...... WH^ON BELL Attorney General....'... .J. E. TAYLOR State Treasurer.; ROBERT W. WINN State Auditor...... FORREST SjjftrH MISSOURI .^ ^ A,. SUPREME COURT ' Chief Justice!... ERNEST MOSS TIPTON ".. ^ Six Associate Justices Term". Ten years SENATOR M. C. MATTHES • GOVEIUNOR Chaim&n df the Commission on Elected'by popiilar vote PiiiL M. DONNELLY Jnterstatc Cooperation y LEGISLATURE President of the Senate."...... WALTER N. DAVIS Speaker of the .. House.-..•-MDRRAY"THOMPSON President Pro Tem of the Senate.. M. G. MATTHES "Secretary of the Senate..".....;..... ROY MILLER Clerk of the House...... CURTIS J. TINDELL Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D 15 D 54 Senate... 4 years Wednesday after January first, biennially R 19 R. ..100 House... 2 years in odd years. Length: no constitutional Total ...34 Total...... 154 limit. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members •. Senate Members House Members MORRIS E. OSBORN! M. G.. MATTHES, Chairman HOWARD ELLIOTT . J. E. TAYLOR H. R. WILLIAMS R.J. KING,JR. -HUGH E. WAGGONER ROBERT A. LINNEMAN DOUGLAS MAHNKEY BEN HOWARD R. JASPER SMITH JOE H. MILLER (Vacancy) MICHAEL KINNEY ROY HAMLIN» JOHN VV. NOBLE- . \ Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General.!...... ; JOHN A. HARRIS Library (State)...... ;...... KATHRYN MIER Agriculture...... Tp^i DOUGLAS Liquor Control : EDSIUND BURKE Audit,....:.;..-. .• .FORREST SMITH Mines ;...... CHARLES KEITH •Banking .H. G, SHAFFNER Motor Vehicles...... HINKLE STATLER Budget...... W. B. MCGREGOR Old Age Assistance .PROCTOR N. CARTER Claims FORREST SMITH^ Parks. . ABNER GWINN Comptroller...... : ...... BEN H. HOWARD* Parole.\,...... Tr...... EUGENE W. COUEY .bonservatiorr...... IRWIN T. BODE Personnel..,...".. RALPH J. TURNER Gorporations...... ;. i. ..ROBERT R. WELBORN Planning...... ;....;.;.... .HUGH DENNEY Education ...,...... ,., HUBERT WHEELER Police...;.....,...... HUGH W. WAGGONER Equalization of Assessments. CLARENCE A. EVANS Printing arid Pui'chasing'...., .WILLIAM L. SMITH Fish and Game...... IRWIN T. BODE Public Assistance...... PROCTOR N. CARTER Forestry...... GEORGE O. WHITE Public Uti&tiesfand Railroads. . .MORRIS OSBUTRN Geology.'...... EDWARD L. CLARK Public Woris, .'•...... ^. JOHN F. POWTELL Health, .r...... =v..; .R. M.JAMES, M.D. Securities. ! .''.j:'...... ;.-... .ROBERT R. WELBORN Highways .. CARL W. BROWN Ta.xation ... .'.;^.', ...... CLARENCE A. EVANS Insane ...... ORR MULLINAX, MX>. Unemployrhent'Compensation... .CARL J. HENRY Irisiirance OWEN G. JACKSON Veterans..'...... ,. ROY F. BEAMAN Labor. ...;..'. LdN N. IRVVIN Water Resources... .,. ..,.. .EDWARD L. CLARK Library (Archives and History) . F- G. SnoE^iAkER Welfare. SAMUEL MAIISH Library (Law).... .;...... LESTER BREEDEN Vyorkmen's Compensation. . .SPENCER GIVENS • % :*»• MONTANA u Nickname . The Treasure. State Bird...... Ml. . Meadowlark •Motto. . . Oroy Plata (Gold and Silver) Song (official) ...... Montana •• P Flov/er. .Bittefroot Entered the Union. .November 8,1889 LEGISLATIVE REFEREN charciGter owned or operated by the state, SERVICE including but not: limited to educational, penal, correctional, administrative, and Legislative Reference Bureau custodial institutions. The thirtieth Legis State Law Library lative Assembly (1947), upon thp-FeGoi mendation of the Postwar Pkrfining and M.A,RY LOIS PETERSEN, Librarian Construction Commission:, appropriated Services: The Bureau performs' library S4,293,361 for improvements and new con service and legislative research for legis struction for various stafc departments. No lators and state officials. A file is kept ^f fixed amount was appropriated for the all bills introduced,- and an index is pre use of the Postvvar Planning and Construc pared at the end of the session. The law tion Commission, but ^11 monies not other clerks for the legislature use the facilities wise appropriated may be used by the of the Library and the Bureau in their Commission during the l,947-48- fiscal bill drafting. The librarian and reference period. *^' " . librarian assist in matters of research and in helping the legislative clerks to secure information needed in their work. iSTATISTICS Area (square miles). .146,997 Rank in Nation , • • •..- . •. •. '•. 3rd (Montana publishes no State Manual.) Population (estimated 1945)... ,,.. .457,624 Rank in Nation (1945)...... 43rd Density per square mile (1940)...... 3.8 Number of Representatives in Congress...... 2 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, 1946 MONTANA POSTWAR PLANNING Total Revenue...... $35,813,921 AND CONSTRUCTION Total Expenditures. .529,975,893 COMMISSION . , • . State University...... Mpritana State University Site...... ;...... l^issoula Chairman: GOVERNO^ SAM C. FORD • L.egal Basis: Legislative Act, 1945 Capital City...; ...... V.. ..,. .Helena Population (1940)...... "^V. . . '.. .15,056 Activities: To make studies, plans, and Rank in State ;,...... 5th surveys'for^eeded and necessary postwar Largest City. .... ,., ;. .:. . . :. ...Butte construction, water conservation, improve-. '> Population (1940)....:..'../...... -. 37,081 ^^ ments an(^ development in and about all Nuniber of Cities over 10,000 Population...... 6 institutions and buildingis of every kind or •Number of Counties...... "...... ,56 -' • ' • ••->•. '••... • . . 'o . \ 556 fr MONTANA 557 1 OFFICERS Governor •. SAM C. FORD Lieutenant Governor .. ..•....; , .ERNEST T. EATON Secretary of State.;. SAM W. MITCHELL Attorney General... . .R. V. BOTTOMLV State Treasurer.... GEORGE T. PORTER State Auditor . .. .JOHN J. HOLMES :. MONTANA .. • j : SUPREME COURT ; Chief Justice ...... HUGH ADAIR Four Associate Justices "J GOVERNOR HON. R. V-. BOTTOMLY Term ...... Six yegfs Chairman of the';Coinmiuion on Elected by popular vote , "';^ SAU'C. FORD .rntcrgovernmental Cooperation I^EGISLATURE ' President of the Senate...... ERNEST T. EATON President Pro Tem of the Senate..... TOM BURKE Sjaeaker of the House...... CHARLES L. SCOFIELD Secretary of the Senate. .. CLAUDE J. MCALLISTER Clerk of the House"...... LEWIS R. KNOX Senators Representatives Term Regular Session. R ...... 41 R ...59 Senate... 4 years First Monday in January, biennially in odd. •/.D-'f^.. ..-. ....15 D 31 House. :•.. 2 years years. Length: 60 days. • L Total...... 56 Total...... 90 COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION Administrative Members '^ Senate Members House Members R. V. BOTTOMLY, Chairman H. A..JSIMMONS C.J. BALDWIN JOHN NORMAN.MATTHEWS- HENRY J. SAWTELL GUY ROGERS p. P. FABRICK TOM BURKE EARL H. HALL ALBERT H. KRUSE AUSTIN E. LYNCH DAVID F. JAME'S /FRED E. BUCK \ CHARLES A. BOVEY G. C, KIMPEL \. Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE;\SPEAKER OF HOUSE ' - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS / • Adjutant General S. H. MITCHELL Library (Law).. .•.... .MRS. ADELINE J. CLARKE Advertising .... .WILLIAM FERGUSON Library (State)'. ..,.: .MRS. LUCINDX SCOTT Aeronautics FRANK WILEY Liquor Control . A. J. BULEY Agriculture....;...... ALBERT KRUSE Mines...... J. BURKE CLEMENTS Audit...... ; ...:...... JOHN J. HOLMES Motor Vehicles. ... V .J. E. HENRY Banking...... W. A. BROWN Old Age Assistance...... W.J. FOUSE Budget J. N. MATThEws Parks :...... '...... W. R. RANKIN Corporations. '. .. . .CLIFFORD WALKER Parole ...:...... W. L. FITZSIMMONS Corrections.....; , .. . W. L. FITZSIMMONS Planning...... '...... D. P. FABRICK Education. -.ELIZABETH.IRELAND Police. ;...... CHARLES L. SHERIDAN Employment Service...... O. C. LAMPORT •Public Assistance ...... W.J. FOUSE Equalization of Assessments.,...-.. .SAM D. GOZA Public Utilities and Railroads .. HORACE CASEY Fire Marshal;...... JACK CARNEY Purchasing...... RUSSELL SHAW Fishand Game. ..'.-.""{T. .:•.•.:: .AT-A.O'CLAIRE Securities.—-TV. .rrr7^7^.-r-.-7-r.-".-~rJoHNj.-HoLMES- Forestpy .... .RUTLEDOE PARKER Taxation. ;...... SAM D. GOZA ) Health...... -'B. K. KILBOURNE, M.D. Unemployment Highways ...:... HOWARD HOLMES Compensation BARCLAY CRAIGHEAD Insafne.. .B. L. PAMPEL, M.D. Veterans. T.....;. .JAMES E. KRIEGH Insurance...... JOHN J. HOLMES Water Resources .SAM C. FORD Labor.^...... GENE BURRIS Welfare...... W. J. FOUSE Library (Archives)...... MRS, LUCINDA SCOTT Workmen's Compensation.... J. BURKE CLEMENTS ^ *i L- NEBRASKA Nickname.. .. .The Cornhusker State Bird...... Western Meadowlark Motio .Equality Before the Law Song...... (Four unofficial) Flower. . .Goldenrod Entered the Union... . March 1,1867 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE AGENCY •,'.•• . • i Legislative Coiincil The 1947 Nebraska Legislature created • , ROGER V. SHUM'ATE the Division of Nebraska Resources in the Director of Reference and Research Department of Agriculture and Inspection Services: In addition to its research prO' which is to assist in the development of gram for the legislature the Council main new; industries and to plan for the maxi tains a legislative reference library, a bill mum use of the Gtate resources and existing drafting-service, and publishes The Nebras industrial facilities. It is also to stimulate ka Blue Book. The Revisor of Statutes as and assist research by business concerns, sists in the drafting of bills. The reference encourage local planning, and cooperate library is under the supervision of a full- with regional and national planning agen time reference librarian, and a file is kept cies in the field of agriculture, commerce, of all bills introduced. ..The Council fur industry,'and labor. nishes technical assistance to the Commit tee on the Budget. It also prepares digests of bills for other legislative committees which request it. •*STATISTICS ' Area (square miles). .77,510 Rank in Nation...... 15th , • STATE MANUAL Population (estimated 1945)...... =1,198,492 The Nebraska Blue Book , Rank in Nation (1945) ;...... ;....:.... 33rd * • Issued by the Legislative Council Density per square mile (1940) 17.2 •Published biennially - Number of Representatives in Congress. , 4 TotalI'ages: 407 Gurrent Volume: 1946 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, 1946 ' Size in inches: 5>^ x 8^ Total Revenue. .$47,279,380 15*-, The Nebraska Blue Book contains a com Total Expenditures ...... $41,955,649 plete and compact directory of the state, State University...... University of Nebraska county, rnunicipal and public power dis Site .Lincoln trict pjRicials. /There are adequate election Capital City...... Lincoln statistics and a description of the activities • Population (1940). ..,...-. 81,984 of state government with a history of the Rknk in State.;...... 2nd various agencies. There are statistics on Largest City...... :.... .Omaha agriculture, public assistance, roads, etc; PopulaUon (1940).;...:..:..... ;.:. .223,844 The bopk is illustrated and contains a tables Number of Cities over 10,000 Population...... 9 of contents and an adequate index. Number of Counties..; ;,...... 93 rl 558 ;• \, •\ NEBRASKA 559 • OFFICERS Governor VAL PETERSON Lieutenant Governor ...... ROBERT B. CROSBY Secretary of State... .. FRANK MARSH Attorney General.. WALTER R.JOHNSON State Treasurer EDWARD GILLETTE }: State Auditor...... \... RAY G. JOHNSON Superintendent of Schools .. .WAYNE O. REED NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT Ghief Justice. . '. ..;ROBERTG. SLMMONS S . Six Associate Judges Term. .Six years SENATOR C. PETRUS PETERSON . GOVERNOR Chairman of the Coramission on Elected by popular vote . VAL PETERSON Intergovernmental Cooperation LEGISLATURE Nebraska has the only unicameral legislature . PresidentoftheLegisliature.,. ROBERT B. CROSBY" Clerk of the Legislature,...... \HtjooF. SRB Speaker of the Legislature. ...WALTER R. RAECKE >> . LegisIl(tors Term • ; Regular Session'--^ ^-i- Nonpolitical election. ...43 2 years FirstTuesday in January, biennially in odd years. Length: no constitutionaliimit., V, COMMiSSiON ON INTERGOVERNMENTALt30QPERATI0N Administrative Members "Legislative Members ~^-~ WALTER R. JOHNSON. G. PBTRUS PETERSON, Chairman ROBERT M. ARMSTRONG RAV A.BABCOCK R.M. HOWARD ARTHUR GARMODY BERNARt) R. STONE EARL J. LEE WALTER E. ROBERTS KARL E. VOGEL Ex-officio Honorary Members: TH^ GOVERNOR, PRF^SIDENT OF LEGISLATURE, SPEAKER OF LEGISLATURE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General. . . , . . .GUY N. HENNINGEiR Labpr.. . ,,...;...... DONALD P. KIILLER Aeronautics...... JAMES D. RAMSEY Library (Archives and History) .-.JAMES G. OLSON, Agriculture;;...... ;. R. M, HOWARD Library (Law and State) .G.H.TURNER Audit... .•„;.' .'...... RAY G. JOHNSON Liq'iior Control....., . .RICHARD E. BREGA Banking. ..'...... J. E-J^IGLAIN Motor Vehicles,.. . . WARDNER G, SCOTT Budget...... ,;..., ROBERT M. ARMSTRONG Old Age Assistance. . NEIL C. VANDEMOER Claims...... ^..... ROBERT M. ARMSTRONG Parks;.....;...... '. PAUL T. GILBERT Corporations...... '.FRANK MARSH Parole...... ; .. ... ,R. G. MEISSNES; Corrections...... W. H. DiERS Personnel...... L J. MONTGOMERY Education...... WAYNE REED Police...... ;...... C.J. SANDERS JEmpIoyment Service., ;G. H. RHOADES Public Assistance.. . ..NEIL C. VANDEMOER Equalization of Assessme nts R. M. ARMSTRONG Public Utilities and Railroads; ... . J.-KNICKREHM . Fire Marshal...... : .E. C. IVERSON Purchasing, ...... ;.... BLAINE YODER Fish and Game .. ..PAUL T, GILBERT Securities...... ;.'. . , . ... .J. F. MCLAIN Forestry...... ,. PAUL, T. GILBERT Taxation...... :...... ROBERT M, ARMSTRONG Geologfy...... GEORGE E. 'GONDRA Unemploytnent Compensation. . .R^ T. MALONE Health...... W,,S. PETTY, M.D. Veterans ...... ;...... /..:...... Louis R. EBY Highways...... ;.. WARDNER G. SCOTT Water Resources.; WARDNER G. SCOTT Insane ...... :^W. H. DiERS Welfare..;.,.,...;,...... ,!....W, H. DIERS insurance ...... '. .y. .BERNARD R. STONE , Workmen's Compensation..../.. 0. M, OLSEN ¥' -t:/: « V • t^ Nickname." ... The Sagebrush State Bird (unofficial^).. .Mountain Bhi|abird Motto., ...... All for Our Country Tree (unofficial)...... Aspen Emblem. . .1...... Sagebrus h Entered the Union. , October 31, 1864 -^ TV 6- X, \ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE NEVADA STATE PLANNING SERVICE . / BOARD Law and Legislative Reference Section Chairman:.W. T. HoLCOMB ' - State Library Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chap..102, Stat. 1937 Funds Available July 1, 1948—June 30, 1949: E. CHARLES D. MARRIAGE, Reference Librarian 510,000 Services: Collects anid catalogs material. Activities:.Th.t Board was created for the . Office of Legislative Counsel major purpose of developing a long-range program of capital improvements at the ,. Vacancy, Legislative Cojinsel state lievel. Its major efforts are being di Services: The Office makes a general sur rected to the preparation and promotion vey of all offices, departments, institutions, of plans for the economic and social devel p^ and agencies of the state government with opment of the state in the postwar era, particulsir attention to their respective including proposed six-year program of functions, staff and needs for money. The public construction, scheduled in the pres Legislative Counsel shall make suggestlibns ent order of need and based on the state's for changes in or substitutes for proposed anticipated financial ability to pay; this legislation. program is revised each biennium, and has been made flexible so that it can be tele ^•7 scoped to fit the postvyar adjustment period. - ' / STATE MANUAL The RepQTt of the Secretary of State \ STATISTICS: Issued by the*Secretary of State Area (square miles). 110,690- Published biennially Rank in Nation...... ;...... 6th Population (estimated 1945)...'. 159,804 ;: 1944 Total Pages: 56 • Current Volui't Rank in Nation (1945)...... : .48th Size in inches: 6 X 9 Density per square mile (1940).....-.....; 1.0 The Report of the Secretary of State of Ne~ Number of Representatives in Congress...... 1 yacffl, besides containing Statistics/of the Fiscal Year July 1, 1945—June 30, .1946 Department of State necessary for iThe Re- Total Revenue;... ,. ...•..;. $9,047,443 port\ presents a complete roster of congres : Total Expenditures...... ,. . $8,102,412 sional representatives; state; officials in the State University...... ;. University of Nevada executive, judicial, arid legislative depart- Site..... •...... • • • • • •. .•..,•• .^R.eno ;,jments; state boards, commissions) and de Capital City.:,...... Carson City partments;. appbMfive:'6flScers^^^ and state Population (1940).!.:....:..-...... v...... 2,478. institutions. Included is a roster of county- Rank in State...... :7th officers; an historical register of United Largest City ...... -...... ;. .Reno States senators and representatives frorii Population (1940). !, .21,317 *i&* Nevada; state officers; and supreme court Number of Cities over 10,000 Population...... 2 and district judges, from 1865. Number of Counties! 17 ;5(30 Kv \ ... \ ^•^ NEVADA . ^ 561 OFFICERS Governor...... T.. I.. VAIL PITTMAN Lieutenant Governor. . V.. • CLIFF JONES Secretary of State ..:. . .\JOHN KQONTZ Attorney General...... ALAN H. BIBLE State Treasurer....:. . D-VN W. FRANKS State Auditor. .'...... G. L. ROBINSON State Confroller...... JERR^' DONOVAN •• NEVADA SUPREME COU] Chief JustfceTTTT;..... EDOARlEATHiiR Two Associate Justices! HON. ALAN H. BIBLC Term...... Sixyears . GOVERNOR Chairman of the Committee on Elected by popular vote ' VAIL PITTMAN Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate , . CLIFF JONES Speaker of the Assembly...... H. E. HAZARD President Pro Tern Sf)eaker ProvTem of the Senate ...... RENE W. LEMAIRE ofthe Assei ibly. CLIFFORD CARLSON Secretary of the Senate ..... FRANK J. BACIGALUP Chief Clerk ofthe Assei ibly...... JEFFE. SPRINGMEVER Senators Representatives Term V Regular Session D...... 7 D...... 21 Senate... 4 years Thirci [onday in January, biennially in R...... :...io. R...... 18 House... 2 years odd ye; Length: 60 days. Total ...17 T .1 Prog...... 1 Total ...41 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE CO( >PERATION Members %. ALAN H. BIBLE, CAaiVman CLIFFORD JONES J. G. ALLARD G.E.JOHNSON ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant CJeneral...... MARLOWE M. MERRICK. Library (Law) .. '.... ,'.'...... E. D. MARRIAGE -Agriculture...... ,..GEORGE D. ERNST Library (State) . . .. . \... .,.. .E, D. MARIUAGE Audit and Banking .. . . .^. &^ G.' L.RoBISON Liquor Control...... '...... H. 8. COLEMAN Budget...... '. !:...'...'... VAIL PITTMAN Mines.... T...... ARTHUR E. BERNARD Claims...... '•'.. VAIL PITTMAN Motor Vehicles ...... JOHN KOONTZ Comptroller ...... ; JERRY DONOVAN Old Age Assistance....;...... HERMINE FRANKE Conservation.-. ,... ROBERT A. 'ALLEN Parks...... ,..W. T. HbicoMB Corporations...... ;... .JOHN KOONTZ Parole.... •...... WARD SWAIN Corrections...... — ; VAIL PITTMAN Planning...... \. . ..,'. . . . .W. T. HOLCOMB Education ...... :....'.;.,.. .MILDRED BRAY Pplice..:...... ;. .LESTER MOODY Employment Service...... GILBERT C. Ross Printing...... JACK MCCARTHY Equalization of Assessments...... VAIL PITTMAN Pilblic Assistance...... JOHN E. HOROAN Fire Marshal .WAYNE MCLEOD Public Utilities GEORGE ALLARD Fish and Game .....E.J. PHILUPS Railroads...... :...... iGEORGE ALLARD Geology. VINCENT P. GIANELLA Securities...... ,'...... DAN W. FRANKS Health...... > ...... FRED LOE, M.D. Taxation...... ROBBINS E. CAHILL Highways.;. W. T. HOLCQMB Unemployment Compensation .G. G. Ross Insane "... .SIDNEY J. TILLIM, M.D. Veterans. WALTER DEVEREinc Insurance...;;.,...... JERRY DONOVAN Water Resources ...... ALFRED M. SMTTH Labor...... '...... ,..<:. .R. N. (jiBspN Welfare. .JOHN E. HOROAN Librairy (Archives and History) .'^E. D. MARRIAGE Workmen's Compensation..'.. .DAN J. SULLIVAN V /=". V--»-. NEW HAMPSHIRE Nickname...... The Granite State Bird (unofficial)...... Purple Finch Motta...... Live Free or Die Song (unofficial).,. Old New Hampshire Flovv6r...... Purple Lilac Entered the Union. . . .-.June 21-, 1J788 . LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE NEW HAMPSHIRE STAtE SERViCE ' PLANNING AND DEVELOPME| ., Legislative Service ""r- \ COMMISSION ' -<-y^ State Library v Executive Director: EDWARD ELUNGWOOD Legal Basis: Statute: Chap. 27, Sec. 40l^^Rey. Laws MILDRED PETERSON.MCKAY, State Librarian 1942 V FRANCES E. BiBik, Legislative Reference; Librarian Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30,^ 1948: S290,325, chap. 296, Laws of 1947. \i- iS'frwVw; The Service prepares Studies of . legislation, digests, and bibliographies of Activities: All postwar planning effeiPtS'< interest to legislators, officials, and others of the state at the present time arie in the concerned with state goverrihient. It keeps hands-of this commission. A Council on copies of all bills introduced in the General Postwar Planning and Rehabilitation was Court and a daily record of the status of appointed by the Governor in June, 1943. each bill throughout the session. Inter It terminated its work in December, 1944, ested persons are notified on request of with the issuance or The Report of the New hearings on specified measures. Bill draft- Hampshire Councilman Postwar Planning and - ing and revision of statutes are functions Rehabilitation. This report made recom , of the office of the attorney general. mendations relative to the postwar, needs of the state, in the fields of manufacturing, industry, recreation, agriculture, forestry, education^ health, public welfare, finance, STATE MANUAL \ g^i d returning veterans. JVew Hampshire Manual for the General Court IsSued by the Departrnent of State STATISTICS Published biennially Area (square miles) .. .9,210 Rank in Nation...... -...... 43rd Total Pages: 566 Current Volume: 1947, No. 30 Population (estimated 1945) ...... ,. .452,174" Size in inches: 5X X 7^ * Rank in Nation (1945)...... 44th Prepared primarily- for the use of mem J Density per square mile (1940)...... 54!5 bers of the General Coupt^ of New Hamp Number of Representatives in Congress...... 2 shire, the Mew Hampshire Manual for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30; 1946 : General Co«r/ contains a complete roster of Total Revenue...... : ...... i 542,738,658 executive, legislative, and judicial officers Total Expenditures...... ; •'$43^234,164 of the state government. Included are pri State University. . .University, of New Hampshire mary and general election statistics, a brief Site...... , . ,, ... Durham history of New Hampshire, the population Capital City. :...... '.. :...,,-...Concord of the state, towns and wards, state em Population (1940);...:..;...... i.. ..27,171 blems and legal holidays. There is no in Rank in State. . ..,. .. . V...... 3rd dex, but the book contains an adequate Largest City...;. .Manchester "stable of contents. The JV>a; Hampshire Man Population (1940). .,...... ;'.;;. .77,685 ual is an unusually compact and usable Nurrjber of Cities over 10,000 Population...;. .9\ state government directory. . Number of Counties.....,...... \ '."...... 10 562 I NEW HAMPSHIRE 563 OFFICERS ' : Governor CH.^RLES M. DALE Lieutenant Governor'. ...;...... None Secretary of State;... ENOCH D. FULLER Attorney General ERNEST R. D'AMOURS State Treasurer,... F. GORDON KIMBALL State Comptroller. . .STEPHEN B. STORY •:; • •. • • • . • , --• \ • NEW HAMPSHIRE SUPREME COURT Chief Justice. ...,. OLIVER W. BRANCH Four Associate Justices Term...... Until seventy years of age HO..A.BK.XS.BW Appointed by the governor and ^ ^OVHUKO. ' . Chairman of the CommiMion on the-Council - CHARLES M. DALE Interstate Cooperation • • '. / • \ • ' LEGISLATURE ^ President of the Senate .. .. CHARLES H. BARNARD Speaker of the ftbuse... .J. WALKER WIOGIN Clerk of the Senate...... BENJAMIN F. GREER Clerk of the House...... CYRIL J. FRETWELL Senators Representatives Term " . Regular Session D. . . . 5 D...... 127. Senate.. .2 years First Wednesday in January, biennially in R. . 19 R."...... 272 House.. .2 years odd years. Length; ho constitutional limit. Total...... 24 . Total/ .399 • COMMISSION ON II^TERSTATE COOPERATION „ Administrative Members Senate Members House Members ALBERT S. BAKER, Chairman CHARLES H. BARNARD J. WALKER WIGGIN * .ERNEST R. D'AMOirRS L- AUGUSTUS F. BUTMAN HARRY P. SMART .ENOCH D. FULLER % JESSE R. ROVVELL EDWARD J. HOPLEY JOHN R. SPRIN,G EDMOND J. MARCOUX HARRY D. SAWYER DONALD KNOWLTON EMMET j. KELLEY LAURENCE M. PICKETT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE^S^ Adjutant General...... CHARLES" F.BOWEN Labor...... ".....:.. WILLIAM H- RILEY Advertising...... ANDREW M. HEATH Library (Law and Stiate).. .MIL6RED P. MCKAY Aeronautics ...... ;.... .W. RUSSELL HILUARD Liquor Goi!!^ok ...... WILLIAM A. JACKSON Agi"iculture (Acting).... DR. ROBINSON W. SMrrn Motor Vehicles'...... FREDERICK N. CLARKE; Audit ..'.'.'.;...... STEPHEN B. STORY Old Age Assistance...... ELMER V. ANDREWS -.^>--i Banking.,...... CLYDE M. DAVIS Parks RUSSELL B, TOBEY Budget...... STEPHEN B. STORY Parole...... '. .'"F. EARL THAYER Claims...... ;...... '^ERNEST R.D'AMOURS Planning...... , •. • .EDWARD ELUNGWOOD Comptroller.,..,...... ,, .STEPHEN B. STORY Police ....'....•...... RALPH W.; CASWELL Corporations...... ENOCH D. FULLER Public Assistance .... .\..... ELMER V. ANDREWS Corrections...... RICHARD T. SMITH Public Utilities E. H. HUNTER oEducatioh....;...... EUGAR FULLER Pux-chasing .HAROLD CHENEY Employn^nt Service;.... MRS. ABBY L. WILDER Railroads .... .-.....: •.,,. E. H. HUNTER Equalization of Assesshients.,.. .JOHN R. SPRING Securities ...... DONALD KNOWLTON Fish and Game...... RALPH G. CARPENTER Taxation.. 7.'. .JOHN H. SPRING Forestry .JOHN H, FOSTER Unemployment Compensation...... (Vacancy) Health.. . JOHN S. WHEELER Veterans ...... ,...... HAROLD B. TRUMBLEY Highways....,:..;.;..-. .FREDERIC E. EVERETT Water Resources (Acting).... WALTER G/WIHTE Insane...... ,.• • • •.CHARLES*H. DOLLOFF, M.D. Welfare...... ' ELMER V..ANDREWS Insurance.. /...., DONALD KNOWLTON Workmen's Compensation... .WILLXAM H. RILEY NEW Nickname. .. .The Garden State Bird. . f.,...... Eastern Goldfinch Motto. r . •. • .Liberty andProsptfity Song (unofficial).... Ode to New Jersey Flower...... '. ... i Violet, Entered the Union December 18,1787 .^ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF SERVICE . ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Division of the State Library, ii\fchives and History ^ Commissjbner: CHARLES R. ERDMAN, JR. ROGER H.-MGDONOUGH, Director and State. Director of Planning and Engineering: . • Librarian WILLIAM T. VANDERLIPP Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chap. 85, Services: No extended research is con Public Laws, 1944 ^, ducted, but material is made available to Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1948: thC: inquirer. Copies are kept of all bills Sl,216,902- , and amendments, and a record of their Status is maintained. At the close of each Activities': The Department is concerned session a descriptive list of alllavvs enacted with the consolidation of state departments is compiled and printed. and the elimination^f overlapping func tions and duties; under the law, it absorbed Law Revision and Bill Drafting' the functions, powers, and dWies of eight Commission . previously existing departments.- The. CHARLEifX)EF. BESORE, Chief Counsel Division of Veterans' Sei-vices in' this De- JOHN W. OcKFORD, Co^psel par;tment is designed to aid veterans to ad Services: This Corrirnission is an agency just themselvgs to ciyU life. . .; of the legislature set up to caf ry on continuous revision of the statutes. It does bill drafting •for the members and committees of the legislature and for the yarioys state depart- . STATISTICS . ments and examines bills proposed for iif- troduction in the legislature as to matters Area (square miles)...... !. 8,204 of form.; . Rank in Nation...... ;....: . :... 45th Population (estimated 1945)...... 4,200,941 STATE MANTJAL Rank in Nation.('i945)...... '....8th New Jersey Legislative A{ahuaL -Density~pet:squanoQiJe^il5'40)_, ..!. 553.1 Issued by authority of the legislature Number of Representatives in Congress. ." ...14 »^. ' Published annua:lly Total Pa^es: 785 . Current Volume: 1947 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 • • '^ Size in inches: Ayi x 6J^ Total Revenue...... ;...... $147,720,728 The Legislative. Manual of the State of New Total Expenditures ...... SI 38,4f7,826 d . Jersey., published by Dorothy A. Fitzgerald, State University^ .... ^ ...'• , Trustee,'and John P. Dullard, Compiler, Site...... "...... -. . New Brunswick .under authority of the legislature, contains Capital City...... • ,• • • • • • • • • • .Trenton a complete directory of the three depart Popiilation (1940);... . .;...... 124,697 ments of the state gdvernrnent, a directory Rank in State. , • • • • • • - • • • •. ^th of county and municipal governments, Largest City...... Newark biographical material, an abstract of votes', Population (1940)...... = i, .429,760 and historical information. The New Jersey Number of Cities over 10,000 Population. >.. .57 Marjufl/ is still published in pocket size. Number of Counties...... ,21 ' The State College for the Benefit of Agriculture and the Mechanics Arts maintained by the Trustees of Rutgers College, the Agricultural• Experimen~ • t Statio" "n maintained by the saifi[fiee Trustees'.,„,, the New Jersey Agricultura„ l Experiment Station, the New Jersey Collegiege fo" r Wotnen, and the other department_ s of.... higher educatio. n maintaine....d by. th™e Trustee s of Rutgers College were collectively designated as the State University of New Jersey by P.L. 1945, c; 49. 564 e- rfiVyjJiii^: }{EW JE;B:SEY 565. OFFICERS Governor. ALFRED E. DRISCOLL Lieutenant Governor...... None Secretary of State ;•.. .LLOYD B. MARSH Attorney General W. D. VAN RIPER Governor's Counsel...... R. E. WATSON State Treasurer.... R. C. t^ENORicKSON State Auditor...... '. FRANK DURAND State Comptroller...... HOMER C. ZINK .••••••. -^ NEW JERSEY : SUPREME COURT Chief Justice...... CLARENCE E. CASE Eight Associate Justices Term. . ,...."? Seven years' •Jiipot, Rja/tARB HARTSHORNE . Appointed by the governor; Senate GOVERNOR . Chairm^n^of the Commission on confirmation ALFRED E.DRisdtJfcL Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE ' President of the Senate. ... . CHARLES K. BARTON Speaker of the Assembly .LEON LEONARD Secretary of the Senate.... .OLIVER F. VAN CAMP Clerk of the Assembly, v • ..PHILIP C. WADSWORTH Senators "< Representatives . Term Regular Session D... . .5 ,D :....12 Senate.. .3 ye^ Second Tuesday in January, annually. • R...... 16 R...r...... 48 Assembly. 1 year Length: no constitutionallimit. . Total...... 21 Total...... ?60 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Nv Adminisdrative Members Penate Members Assembly Members RICHARD HARTSHORN?, Ckairman HERBERT J. PASCOE NATHANIEL C. SMITH • JOHN BOSWELL • ARTHUR W. LEWJS JAMES H. SANDERSON SPENCER MILLER, JR. • ALFRED B. LITTELL G. STANLEY STULTS ROBERT C. HENDRICKSON FRANK S. FARLEY BERNARP W. VOGEL SANpqRD BATES HARRY RUN YON AMOS F. DIX6N Ex-Qt do Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR . (. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjdtant General...... JAMES L BOWERS Labor— . "..... HARRV C; HARPER " Aeronautics...... ROBERT L. COPSEY Library (Archives and History) R. H. MCDONOUGH Agriculture...... j.. WILLARD^. ALLEN , Library (Law) .R. H. MCDONOUGH , Auditi...... FRANK DURAND Liquoir-Control ERWIN B, HOEK Banking...... /.LAWRENCE B. CAREY Motor Vehicles ;...... ARTHUR W. MAGEE Budget.. ..>/., HOMER C. ZINK Old Age Assistance. .•:...... MARC P. DOWDELL • Comptroller ...... ,'.; HOMER G. ZINK Parks...... ! CHARLES P. WILBER Conservation.... .: . .. MORGAN F. LARSON Parole F. LOVELL BIXBY' Corporations...... LLOYD B. MARSH Planning. WILUAM T. VANDERLIPP •Corrections. .! SANFORD BATES Police....'...... CHARLES'H. ScHOEpipEL Education .;...... JOHN H. BOSSHART Public Assistance...,;. .CHARLES R. ERDMAN^ JR. Employihent Service.. .. • .RUSSELL J, ELDRIDGE Public Utilities and Railroads...... E. T. DREW Equalizatibn of Assessments.. .CHARLES E. COOK Purchasing, .'t...... FRED V; FERBER /,,,,, Fish and.Game...... '..... ANNE E. SULLIVAN Securities...... OLIVER T. SOMERVILLE Forestry ... .CHARLES P..WILBER. •Taxation ...... HOMER C. ZINK Geology;...... ;.. .MEREDITH E. JOHNSON/; Unenxploytnent Compensation .. H. G. HOFFMAN Health...;...... J. LYNN MAHAFFEY, M.D. Veterans.. 1;.;...,,. ..,...... WARREN S. HOOD Highways...... SPENCER MILLER^ JR. Water Resources JOHN WYACK Insane.. .HENRY A. COTTON, JR.,M.D. Welfare'. ELLEN. C. POTTER, M.D. Insurance. '.. .LA-WRENCE B. CAREY Workmen's CompeniJ^ion... . DANIEL A. SPAIR .,v- NEW MEXICO^ c**. Nickname...... The Sunshine State Bird (iSnofficial)...... Road Runner Motto..,... ,...... ;. Crescit Eundo Song...... : O, Fair Mew Mexico (It Grows As It Goes) Flower..... ^ .YuccaFlower Entered the Union. . .January 6, 1912 , ' LEGISLATIVE R-EFERENCE NEW MEXICO STATE , V SERVICE. PLAIsfNlNG;BOARD • . Legislative Reference Bureau Director: VINCENT J. JAEGER „ ' Legal Basis: Legbsiative Act ., The New Mexico Legislative/Reference Funds Available Jjaly li 1947-June 30, 1948': , Bureauj established by statute.in 1937., was 510,000 . abolished by the 1941 session of the leg Activities: The t^ew Mexico State Plan-.^ R islature. Persons requiring legislative or ning Board was reactivated in September other public information have access to thp of 1943. Forty local planning^boards have following organizations: Taxpayers Asso been organized ahd all state departments. ciation of New Mexico, .Room 12, Blatt and institutions cooperate. Bldg., Santa Fe; State (Law) Libraryj Su This board,.always acting as a coordi preme Court Bldg., Santa Fe; and the De nating agency, is emphasizing and approv partment of Government, University of ing projects for the first two.or three years ^ New Mexico,, Albuquerque. after the war and at the same tin^e encour aging long range self-liquidating projects that pass the test of need and financial •.STATE MANUAL /ability.^; ' . ' The New Afexico'Blue Book issued by the Secretary of State . STATISTIC? • ^ Publishep biennially Area (square miles), .y 122,634. Total Pages: 162. Current Volume: 1945-46 Raftk in Nation...... ;.. rS-...; .4th Size in inches: 6x9. Population (cstiinated 1945)...... 535,220 The New Mexico Bltie Book is a complete Rank in Nation (1945) ...... 40th directory of the executive, legislative, and Density per square mile (1940).... ;...... 4.4 judicial departments of the state govern- Number of Representatives in Congress .2 , ment, as well as county pfficials and dffi- Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946: V ^cials of the federal government in-th? state. Total Revrenue...... $42,05^,825 There is a party directory. The book is Total Expenditures.'...... 538,462,835 handsomely illustrated with scenes from State University...... University of New Mexico , this colorful state. The organization and Site ;...... ".. Albuquerque activities of the administrative ^encies and Capital City...... _...... ^.Santa Fe the various institutions of the state are de -• Population (1,94P), ,•,,,....,:%"..:...... •,...... 20,325,. scribed; there are account-s of major events Rknk'iii'State...... s*...... 2nd- ' • in New Mexico's history, ,an(i;(;i?;^crLptions Largest City. .'...... -.. Albuqiieraue of the state parks, monuments, iriissions, Popiilation (1940)...... 35,449 and sites of historic, scenic, and scientific Number of Cities oyer 10,000 Population..'... .5 interest. Number of Counties. :...... ;.;.'.. .31 566 •. f?*^,. • ^; .#». . • • NEW MEXICO >;;v -• ,41 .567 a • a'. . : XD^FICERS, ^ - Governor •...... THOMAS J. MABRV Lieutenant Governor • . ....', . . . ; . . . JpSEPH M. MONTOVA Secretary of State "' ;.. . MRS. ALICIA ROMERO Attorney General.... C. C. MCCULLOH State Treasurer....'.... .RAY RODGERS State Auditor.....:... .J. D; TRUJILLO. State Comptroller;.... G. R. SEBASTIAN NEW MEXICO SUPREME COURT Chief Justice..,... CHARLES R.' BRICE Four Additional Justices Term...... ^. . . .Eight years HON. JOSEPH A. BURSEY Chairmah of the Cotnmbsion on Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR Intergovernmentad Cooperation. ,THOMA3 J. IllABRy LEGISLATURE ^ ______Eresident-of-the'SeiiateTT . ..JOSEPH M. MONTOVA- ' \ e-K -PiEesidentTlro Tern Speaker of the House'...... H. VEARLE PAYNE of the Senate. CLAUDE E. GAMBLE ClerkdftheHouse...... ;... GILBERTO LOPEZ Secretary of the Seniatc...... MRS. M., H.DAVIS . • , .. ,^. . ^ Sejaators ' Representatives .Term Regular Session ., ''-'l. D...... 18 D. . . .30 Senate. *. 4 years Second Tuesday in January, biennially in fiT^ R...... 6 R...... 19 House...2years odd years. Length: 60 days; Total...... 24 Total'. ....;<. 49 .. .v COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATlblvf „ Administrative Members Senate Mejnbers ,^ House Member's' JOSEPH A. BURSEY, Chairman JOSEPH M. M'ONTOYA JIOHN F; SIMMS, m. VICTOR SALAZAR HENRY L. EAGER THEODORE RozzELL C.^. MCCULLOH G. T. MCWHIRTER A. B. CARPENTER J, D, HANNAH / \ CtARENCE E. HINKLE SiXTO LEYBA MILTON R.SMITH ELOY VIGIL . . , GuADALtjPE TRUJILLO Ex-qfficio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... CHARLES G. SAGE Library (State, Law, and Archives) . Advertising...... -...... ^JOSEPH A. BURSEY .-. ..A. POLDERVAART Aeronautics ..,. . •.,...... C. J. BOYD. Liqi^Q^ Control...... TOM MONTOYA, JR. Agriculture...... Huoii M. MILTON, IH Mines.....:...... f..;..:. JOHN A. GARCLV- Audit...... E. p. TRUJILLO Motor Vehicles ...-,;... /...... MIKE GALLEGC^ Banking W. P. SAUNDERS Old Age Assistance....."./.. .MURRAY A. HINTZ -Budget ..;...... THOMAS J. MABRY Parks .CHARLES RAEHL Comptroller ...... 0. R. SEBASTIAN Parole...'.. ...,•;.;...... HOW;ELL GAGE GpnservaSon ;..>... THOMAS J. MABRY Personnel. /...... JOSEPH A. BURSEY Corpoi^atiohs EUGENE ALLISON Planning...... '. VINCENT JAEGER Education:.....,...... :.. .'.CHARLES L. ROSE Police. ;•. ..HUBERT W, BEASLEY Employment Service ...... BENJAMIN D^ LUCHINI Public Assistance...... MURRAY A. HINTZ Equalization of Assessments H. B. SELLERS Public Utilities...... :..... W. W. NICHOLS Fish and Game. . . ;...... ELLIOTT S. BARKER Purchasing...... ,...... ,H. N. MCDANEEL Forestry... .'^...... JOHN E. MILES*" Railroaqis ...... ^. .EUGENE ALLISON Geology R. R. SPURRIER Securities...... /...... R. W. HEFLIN Health.., ...... !....,. ... .J. R, SCOTT, M.D. Taxation...... ,'.. ...H. B. SELLERS Highways.,...... ;...... SSURTON G. DWYRE Unemployment Compensation... .B. D. LUCHINI Insane.....,.;...... JACK HANLONi M.D. Veterans ...... „..!. ,...... PAT ROBINSON Insurance .',... ;RALPH F. APODACA Water Resources...... ,.... .JOHN BLISS Labor...... ,.....,.. i A. E. JOINER . Welfare. ... .MURRAY A. HINTZ Library (Anthropology and History). ..E. BAUER Workmen's Compensation...... A. E. JoiNiER r-^-. ••'^ 6* fr- NEW YORK •ff- Nickname. The Empire State Bird'...... -. '...... None Motto;,...... Excelsior (Higher) Song...... (Four unofficial) a • • Flower. . .^.^...... ;.~. ....;.. , -.Rose Ehteredthe Union...... July 26,1788 ••.•'•-.- -• .' 'r-^ • • - ' " - LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE ;. AGENCY. Legislative Reference Section , Established in 1942 the Post war Public State Library, -. Works Planning Commission in slightly WILLIAM P. LEGNA-RD, Acting Legislative less than Hve years' Achieved its ^purpose - Referencfi",. e SectioOx-n LibrariaT-L • n mAvhici I h wa•.s. tIp 1se tJ u p ..machiner . yJ fo.r .a work-. - ffble capital budget system on a pay-as- Services: The Reference Section is pri- you-go basis. The Gommission maintained marily an agency for research, rendering Unison with all federal agencies engaged in services to .legislators^ state officia^ and planning activities in New York, kept rec-. private individuals. ^_ L:^^ ^^ i ords^ofi all: plans drawn by every gov-- j/^ ..^i^-r—x--'"^'-"^'"^'"^"'"' ernmental unit in the state, analyzed-and- ,^- -Legislative Bill Drafting Commission . selected State insdtutional projects for : Services: The Commission aids in draft- '"^'^S^'^^^ planning, and allocated furids. ing bills, resolutions, or amendments lipon ^^he Commission, headed by Budget, -specific request. Tt examines existing laws ^^^^^^or John-E. Burton terminated its. and reports upon measures, necessary to-^.^^^^^^^^^ ^pril 1 947. Its planning func- bring the consolidated laws up to date. . ^^°"^ ^f ^ ^uv^'S^^!' ""''J & ^- ^^^ f ° . '^ • ment of Public Works and the Division of ' •'" the Budget. Development function^ are WATT? A/f AMTTAT ' handled largely.^by the Stat^ Department STATE MANUAL of Commerce. '., ^ew Tork Legislative Manual STATISTICS ^^ Issued by the Secretary of State Area (square miles)., ..•...... :...... 49.576 • Published annualiy. .. ; Rank in Nation...... ,.....'....•. .29th . •Xt Total Pages: 1,507 Current Volume: 1946 Population (estimated 194^51} .12,584,913 Size in inches: 4x6 L Rank in Nation (1945) .'.;*...... 1st The Manualh a comprehensiy^ direc- Density per square mile (1940)...... 281.2 tory of administrative personnel ihHhe ex- Number of Representatives in Congress...... 45 ecutive, legislative, and judicial^branches Fiscal Year AprU 1,1945-March 31, 1946 of government, both nationaL and state. Total Revenue .5912,736,000 • The: volume contains information on the Total Expenditures •...... S?39,626,000i United' States cabinet, courts. Congress, State University.....;...... None , and agencies directing the war program; Capital-City..— : — ...... Albany the departmental structure of state govern- Population (1940)...... ^ ..... ,130,577^ ment and commissions; financial and in- Rankin State...... i. . .6th stitutional statistics; the legislature and Largeit City. ..r:\. ,. . .New York City judiciary; major elective county and state Population (1940). .7,454,995 , officers; population; membership of re'c- . Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.... .70 ^f dgriized political parties; and election Number of Counties.. .\...... :...... 62 statistics. ,. . lU.S. Bureau of Census rcptfh "^ • ' ,,- JOO ••'^jwi • •'- I/loft •"N . ' NEW fORK ••( 569 OFFICERS Gksvernor.....-.... .THOMAS E. DEWEY Lieutenant Governor.. .JOE R. HANLEY •Secretary of State.. .THOMAS J. CURRAN Attorney General » ... . .NATHANIEL L. GOLDSTEIN State Comptroller... FRANK C. MOORE NEW YORK COURT V Oli' APPEALS (Highest Appellate Court) Chief Justice...... JOHN T. LOUGHRAN .Six Associate Members, Term..,...... :_.', .Fourteen years Elected by popular vote „ HON. HAROLD C. OSTERTAO GOVERNOR.' Chairman of the Comtniitcc on THOMAS E. DEWEY Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE Presidentof the Senate...... JOE R, HANLEY President Pro Tfcm Speaker of the Assembly. , OsVS^ALD^D.r-HECK of the Senate...... BENJAMIN F. FEINBERG ••• '^ S. KING. Clerk of the Assembly. . .JJ'.ANSLEV B. BORKOWSKI . Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D....; i. ...14 D...... 40 Senate.. .2.years First Wednesday after first Monday in Jan R. 41 R...... 109 House.. .2 years uary, annvJaflly. Length: no constitutional Amer. Labor. . 1 Amer. Labor. ; 1 limit. . . Total. . .:;..i56 Total...... ISO 1 JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMNflTTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Senate S Assembly Ex-ofiicio ALGER B. CHAPMAN CHAUNCEY ?. HAMMOND HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, BENJAMIN F. FEINBERG CHARLES D. BREITEL FLOYD E. ANDERSON . Chairman ^' ELMER F. QUINN C. CHESTER DU. MOND WALTER W. STOKES GEORGE W^ FOY, Secretary ARTHUR H. WICKS JOHN A. LYONS WALTER J. MAHONEY WHEELER MILMOE OSWALD D. HECK . NATHANIEL L. GOLDSTEIN FRED G. MORITT ELISHA T. BARRETT LEE B. MAILLER . JOHN S. THOMPSON iRWIN-SlfEINGUT - BENJAMIN H. DEMO D. MALLORY STEPHENS />«--. . ' FRANCIS X. MCGOWAN ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adj'utaht General. ,. AMES T. BROWN Library (Law). ...-...... FRANCES.D. LYON Advertising. ;...... HAROIID KELLER Library (State). .:.'.'...CHARLES F.-GOSNELL •T^ronautics...... -...... CLAUDE B, FRIDAY Liquor Control. .7...... JOHN F. O'CONNELL AgViculture ..;_..; ...... C. CHESTER DUMOND Mines...... ;...... ; WILLIAM KOLLAK Audit..,...... '...... 'FRANK C. MQORE Motor Vehicles..;...... CLIFFORP J. FLETCHER Banking.. ..•...... :. .ELLIOTT V.^'BELL Old Age Assistance. .GLADYS FISHER Budget..,;...... JOHN E. BUTTON Parks. .,...... ' JAMES F. EVANS Commerce HAROLD KELLER Parole. .io...... ,. FREDERICK A. MORAN Conservation...... PERRYB, DURYEA Personnel...... C. L. CAMPBELL Corporations .EDWARD D. HARPER Police...... JOHN.A. GAFFNEY Corrections. .JOHN A. LYONS Pqrt Authorityi...... HOWARD S. CULLMAN Education...... FR.\NCIS T. SPAULDING Printing. .. !*>.. J. ARTHUR-MANN Employment Ser^dce...... -... M. O. LOYSEN ' Public Assistance MARGARET BARNARD Equalization of Assessments.. ALGER B. CHAPMAN Public Utilities and Railroads... .M. R. MALTBEE Fish and Game...... ;...; .WILLIAM C. ADAMS Purchasing., ^.....JOHN A. MACCORMACK Forestry...... ;. WILLIAM G. HOWARD Securities. .JOHN P. POWERS Health ...... HERMAN E. HILLEBOE, M.D. Taxation an^_J^inance...... ALGER B. CHAPMAN Highways ;••••(. wmm. • i NORTH CAROLINA ^ Flower.... X Dogwood Nickname...... The Tarheel State Motto...... ;-. .EsseQuam Videri Song.."...... The Old North State\ , (To Be Rather than H^ Seem) Entered the Union November 21,1789 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE NORTH CAROLINA STATE • SERVICE PLANNING BOARD -Division of Publications in the '.• Managing Director: FELIX A, GRISETTE Department of State Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chaps. 345; Public . Laws of 1937- 355, Public Laws of 1943 '^-" Tii AD EuRE, Secretary of State Appropriation: 529,780 for 1945-46 Services: The many services performed Activities: The Board is directed to make by the Division include an inquiry service; studies of any matters relating to the gen • publication of an abstract of voties by coun eral development of the state and upon the ; ties, a list df members of the general apem- basis of such studies to n^ake recp'mmenda^ bly, a dujiptory of state and county offi tions relating to the wise use and planned • cials, an(^ court calendar; and the draft development of the m^rial and Human ing of bills. It further includes the compi resources of the state. Iris at present con lation of information for use by the Gen centrating its activities on those projects eral Assembly and other officials of the designed to nieet the problems that will- state, counties, and cities; the maintenance likely confront the state in the immedia:te of an index of public bills; the publication postwar period,' particularly that of full of'the biennial North Carolina Manual, andemployment. . ': the collection and distribution of North Carolina dep9frtmental publications. • .,.••.,• • • .•'•'- •. is^- ', ' •V'. STATE-MANUAL \ STATISTICS r-~ , North C r -7- i„i^f:jsl NORTH CAROLINA 571 y%'^:.. •;••../; • OFFICERS • ' • - . • •> ... • Governor...... R. GREGG CHERRY Lieutenant Governor , v, L. Y. BAIXENTINE Secretary of State...... THAD EURE Attorney General. . HARRY MCMULLAN St^te Treasurer... CHARLES M.JOHNSON State Auditor HENRY L. BRIDGES NORTH CAROLINA (SUPREME COURT ChiejLJustice...... W. P. STACY Of Six Associate Justices Term...... , Eight years GOVERNOR SENATOR CHARLES H.I JENKINS- Elected by popular vote Chairman of the Comr tission on R. GRECO CHERRY - /. Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate/. . . L: Y. BALLENTINE President ProTem qf the Senate •JOE L. BLVTHE Speaker of the House. .THOMAS J. PEARSICLL Clerk of the Senate S. RAY BYERLY Clerk of the Hoiise MRS. ANNIE E. COOPER Senators epresentatives Term Regular Session '-. D. ....48 ...... 107 Senate.. .2 years Wednesday after first Monday in January, R.:...:....:2 • .13 House.. .2years biennially in odd. years. Length: no con Total...... ;50 btal...... i20 stitutional limit. -/-• COjMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members . House Members R. GREGG CHE RRY CHARLES H.JENKINS, C/iflirffjan R. P. BENDER HARRY MCMU LLAN LEE B. WEATHERS WALTER E. CRISSMAN J. HIDEN |IAMS]:Y R. A. WnrrAKER F. W.HANCOCK, nr T. BODDIE WAI:D GORDON GRAY W. H. MCDONALD ' CLYDE A. ERW ;N LUTHER E.BARNHARDT DAN TOMPKINS Ex-officio Hon^ary Members: THE GovERNoit, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General, ...... J. VAN B/ METTS ^ Library (Law), DILLARD S. GARDNER Advertising...... (.... W. P. SHARPS ' Library (State)...... CA^IE L. BROUGHTON' Aeronautics'. ROY ROWE Liquor Control CA^L L. WILLIAMSON Agriculture. ..'.. W. KERR SCOTT Mines. .JAS?ER L. STUCKEY Audit.,...... I...... HENRY L. BRIDGES Motor Vehicles LA^ON C. RQSSER Banking...;...... GURNEY P.,HOOD Old Age Assistance...... R. E(JGENE BROWN Budget...... |. R. G., DEYTON Parks...,...... THO'MAS W. MORSB Conservation 1...... R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE Parole...... ,.. . ..; HATHAWAY CROSS . Corporations...... J...;...... '.THAD EURE Pcfsorinei '...... R. G. DEYTON Corrections...... 1..".;...... S. E. LEONARD Planning .... FELIX A'. GRISETTE Education...... r...... CLYDE A. ERWIN ' Police .-. r:...... H. J. HATCHER Employment Service.;.. ERNEST C. MCCRACKEN Port Authority .«> ...... R. B. PAGE . Equalization of Assossments...... J W. O. SUITER Public "Assistance ...... ;.. .ELLEN WINSTON Fire Marshal f.... .SHERWOOD BROCKWELL Public Utilities and Railroads ..... S» WINBORNE Fish.and Game .../...... WILLS KING Public Works...... ;... .A. H. GRAHAM Forestry ....; J...... W. K. BEICHLER Purchasing, W. Z. BETTS Geology...... J...... JASPER L. STUCKEY Securities ... THAD EURE Health...... i.. .CARL V. REYNOLDS, M.D. Taxation. i...... EDWIN GILL Highways;!...... J...... A. H; GRAHAM Unemployment Compensation. HENRY KENDALL Insane.....'..... 1..... DAVID-A. YOUNG, M.D. Veterans .".. . . . WILEY M. PICKENS Insurance...... J...... ; WILLIAM P. HODGES Water Resources .W. H. RILEY Labor.....:'.:... J...... FORREST H. SHUFORD VVelfere.... .^,.,...'...... ELLEN WINSTON Library (Archives/& History). .G. G. GRrrrENDEN Workmen's Compensation .Ti A. WILSON S^iifc. NORTH DAKOTA I - Nicj^name. . The Sioux State Bird ...... -. ..'...... Meadowlark, "Motto; .Liberty andUnion, ^ow and Forever, Song...... ,.- NorthDakotaHymn "". One and Inseparable Flower..', . Wild Prairie Rose •Entered the Union. .'November 2, 1889 LEGISLATIVE .REFERENQE PLANNferO AND DEyELOPMENT SERVICE . •. :•; , AGENCY;'. •,..,. • ,, Legislative Research Committee The North Dakota Postwar Planning - JOSEPH A; DONAHUE, Research Director . Board established in 1943 (Chap. 177, . By Session Laws 1945, Chap. 289, a Leg S. L. N. Dak.) was discontinued by the islative Research Committee was created 1945 legislature. North-Dakota has no consisting of eleven members—six reprcr general planning;arid development agency. sentatives and five senators. The commit . • /-•'•.•;•.•• •"•. 1 , ••", tee employs a research director who is del egated the task of compiling information - on any subject a legislator may desire or which the legislature may designate. The ff:' I ^::: committee is specifically authorized to col lect information concerning the govern ment and"general welfare of the state and its pdlitical subdivisions and to promote STATISTICS the uniformity of state laws where, desir Area (square niiles)... .•;.... .7....;.., ,70>837 able. Bill-drafting service is provided. This service was continued by. the 1947 session. Rank in Natiod...:..-.?...... ; ..16th,. Popula,tion (estimated 1945)...... 520,935 Rank in.Nation (1945),...... 41st' ." •, / STATE MANUAL ;;."', Ikihsity per square mile (1940) .9.2 . Number of Representatives in Congress...;... .2 Blue Bookjor the State oj North Dakota .Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-june 30, 1946 Issued by the Secretary of State. By legislative authority . Total Revetiue,. ':.'... $38,130,067 Total Expenditures...... /. . . .S34,299,509 Total Pages: 321 ., Current Volume: 1942 Size in inches; 6 X 9 State University. .... University of No»'th Dakota The North Dakota 5/« 572 KM NORTH DAKOTA^ 573 OFFICERS V Governor...... ^FRED G. AANOArtL : \ Lieutenant Governor...... C. P. DAHL • Secretary bf State ;,.... .THQMAS H^LL Attorney General.... NELS G. JOHNSON' State Treasurer...... H. W. SWENSON State Auditor...... BERTA E. BAKER NORTH DAKOTA V . SUPREMJE COURT Chief Justice ..... A. M, CHRISTIANSON Four.Associate Judges Term; .\ ...... '. .Teh'years HON. E. J. LANOLEV GOVERNOR Chairman of the Committee on • ' Elected by popular vote •; FRED G. AMDAHL • Interstate Cooperation J^: LEGISLATURE ' . '^ . President of the Senate...... !. .0. P. DAHL President Pro Tem of the Senate..^... .J. L. FLATT Speaker pf the House .VERNON M.JOHNSON Secretary of the Senate...... ,.. WALTER TROUT Clerk of the House... . .KENNETH MORGAN. Senators , Representatives • Term Regular Session .- D...... 3 D..... s...... 2, Senate.. .4yeai's Tuesday after first.Monday in January, R. . . . .46 R. Ill House. . .2yeiar3 ; biennially in'odd years. Length:'>60 days. Total. .. ."...49 Total.;....113 '•• •' •. '' • •'.••x : "•- •;.; '••• ^.i'" COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Senate Members ' ' House Men^bers JOHN CONRAD E. J. LANGLEV, C/^jV/Tia/i E. H. BRANT DONNELL HAUGBN ORRIS G. NORDHOUGEN VERNON M.JOHNSON .(:\ R. H. LYNCH • •,/'•'. MANFRED R. OHNSTAD CARROLL ;E,. DAY > ARLAN STAIR .':•.. '•" .W.M:.SMART .^'\ "^"Secretary:, PAVL AGNEBERG ^; ADMINISTRATIVE OITFICERS •s> Adjutant Qeneral....,,:... HEBER L. EDWARDS Library (Law)...... x...... E. J. TAYLOR Aeronautics E. A. NASSET Library (State) .LILLIAN E. COOK 'Agriculture.. i...;.... .MATH DAHL"' Liquor Control .H. W. SVVENSQN Audit...... , :v...... —;; .BERTA E. BAKER Mines. :^.."..... ,..,... .G. B. EASTON Banking...... ,^v ..;./...; .JOHN A. GRAHAM ,Motor Vehicles..'... . . ^ . Pi G. ZlMMfeRMAN Budget.. . -:.':;'.... •... TARGIE TR'VDAHL Old Age Assistance . CARLYLE p. ONSRUD Conservation...... FRED G.VAANDAHL Parks . . .'. -....,...... RUSSELL RJEID * Corporations ....;...... THOMAS HALL Parole . .. .'...... ;...;.. .ART VANDAL Education .... ,. .. =...... ;..?. .G. B, NORDRUM Police...... ,;'E'iM. .KLEIN Eraploymerit Service .CARL F. FRYHLING •Printing...... ;...... L. G, MILLER Equalization, of Assessrnents. . ;, . . . JOHN GRAY Public Assistance.. tG.ARLYLE D. ONSRUD Fire Marshal'. ...-. .^...... H. R. HANDTMANN Public Utilities .'...... S. S, MCDONALD ( •. ^ Fish and Game.."...... WILLIAM J. LOWE Piirchasing...... *..;...... G. B. EDMUNDSON Forestry. .<-. k...... G. N. NELSON Railroads....;;.. . ..,. ..~... . S. S. MCDONALD. Geology .^ ..... t...... WILSON M. LAIRD Securities...... ^...... R. S. SEE . Health...... R.USSEEL O. SAXVIK, MND. taxation.. '...;...... JOHN GRAY Highways .. \..... v...... -.. . ;N.O. JONES Unemployment Compensation. WM. M. SCHANTZ Insane...... — ,. ,\.,. 1. .A.'*M. FISHER, M.D. Veterans . . '...... FLOYD HENDERSON Insurance;...... ?...... OTTO KRUEIGER Water Resources... . : .FRED G. AANDAHL Labor.,.,' ;...... ^; .H. R. MARTINSON Welfare ;.; ...... CARLYLE D.-ONSRUD Library (Archives and History)... .RUSSELL REID Workmen's Compensation^...... B. M.'RYAN •-^: «r»v >. (T- ••H. OHIO - X Nickname...;..- .The Buckeye State; Bird. . . ..;..... Cardinal , Motto...... /...... (None) Song. (Several unq^cial) ' Flower. Scarlet Carnation Entered the Union.. February 19,1803 r*-. LEGISLATIVE I^EFERENCE OHIO POSTWAR PROGRAM ,• ;"!;^ , ;:;• SERVICE '•,.'"''•' COMMISSION » Legislative Reference Bureau ; - Chairrti^n: SENATOR ROSCOE |l.'VVAI.CUTT •.\ iSe^iretary: ROY B. WEED •6 ARTHUR A, SCHWARTZ, Chief Legal Status: Created by Act of the General .As- seipbly effective June 29, 1943, continued by , Services: The chief function of the bureau 'S.B. 293, 1947. , • . is bill drafting. It also prepares briefs on the constitutionality of proposed legisla Activities: The Commission was charged tion, compiles several digests of laws each with the duty of gathering all available year^ maintains an inquiry service, and a pertinent data relative to postwar prob ^ reference file of bills, including bills ob lems confronting the state and its inhabi tained by an exchange agreement with tants,, inclpding plans of adjoining states several other states, and a subject index of and the federal government. It cooperates all bills introduced, with a irecord of their with the state and its subdivisions in the status. Research is conducted |on^= subjects preparation of suitable plans for postwar of interest to legislat6rs. The bureau drafts public works and studies methods orfinan- approximately 90 per cent of all bills and cing such works. Committees established resolutions introduced^ ' by the Commission include agriculture, aviation, beach erosion, conservation, em ployment," laws, libraries, local" govern ments, mental hospitals, penal study, sci ence, Sandusky Home, and Xenia .Home. : . STAT^ MANUAL STATISTICS y , Ohio Official Rosier K Arta (square: nules)...... 41,122 . Raiik in Nation....'...;...... '. •. ..35th tssued by the Secretary of State . Population (estimated 1945)...... 6,873,448 Rank in Nation (1945)...... 5th, Published biennially ^ • Density per square mile (1940)...... 168.0 Number of Representatives in Congress...... 23 Total Pages: 680 Current Volunie: 1945-46 , Fiscal Year January 1, 1946-Decernber'31, 1946 ^ Total Revenue.. . .\ .5522,971,994 Size in inches: 6>^ X 9>^ Total Expenditures...,. .: ... . .s . $463,403,196 State Universities '.• ; liihe Ohio Official Rosier contains a com hio State University ....»&...... Columbus , plete; directory of all departments of the §hio University.,.... i.. .T .....AthcAS state government, including all state boards Miami University .. Oxford.^ and commissions, state institutions, and Kent State University... .,,.. .".Kent Bowling Green University .,.. .Bowling Green county ofiicers', together with federal offi Wilberforcc'University:...... Wilberforcc cials iij the state. Referenc9 should be Capital City . .Columbus made also to the Annual Report of the Secre Population (1940) .306,087 tary of Slate to the Goverrior, which includes R^ik in State/ —...... 3rd popiilation and judicial statistics, and com Largest City...... "...... :.'...... Cleveland Population (1940) ..'..: 878,336 plete lists of new incorporations.^ Both Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.... .59 books contain complete indexes. Number of Counties...... 88 574 0 (-•>!• HJ-v, .-rirs;. •v/- OHIO® 575 >^- >• OFFICERS ' • •• . •'•••• •.,.'•••.. 'i' Governor ...... THOMAS J. HERBERT , ^ OHIO SUPREME COURT ' Chief Justice...... CARL V. WEYGANDT Six Associate Judges ; HON. DALE DUNIFON Term...... Six years Chairman of the Commission on Elected by popular vote •• GOVERNOR Interstate Cooperation • THOMAS J. HERBERT LEGISLATURE • President of the Senate..,,.... .PAUL M. HERBERT •President Pro Tem .4 Speaker of the House .'^'t' .C. WILLIAM O'NEILL dftheSenate...... r... FRANK !^.WHITTEMORE ., •'/ Clerk.of the Senate, ..:; THOMAS E. BATEMAN Clerk of the House...... CAR|, GUESS ; Senators Representatives '. Term . Regular Se^ion - ' 'R.. . , ...... 32 R.. . ; .,.. .123 Senate...2years First Moijday in January, biennially in odd . D. .'...,.... .4' D...... 16 House.. .2years years. Length: no constitutional limit; ; Total. ^.!!!36 ; Total...... 139 r ^ GOMMISSJON ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative'Members Senate Meiiibers House Membej;s. DALE DUNIFON, Chpirman FRED R. SEIBERT SAM B. NICELY HUGH S.JENKINS FRED G. REINERS WILLIAM H. DEDDENS FRED J. MiLLiGAN ReccoE R. WALCUTT T..F3LIE M. BURQE CHARLES L. SHERWOOD. FRED L.*ADAMS „ ' PAUL L. McCoRiacK HERBERT DEFENBACHER CARL.D. SHEPPARD JOHN F. CANTVVELL Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESTOENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE • ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS^ Adjutant General...... CHESTER W. GOBLE Library (Law).... „...... RAYMOND M. JONES Advertising: .DANI^O. TABOR Library (State)...'.. .i,...... WALTER BRAHM Aeronautics ;..'.:.,...... C. E. A. BROWN Liquor Control.. .DALE DUNIFON Agriculture.-. . . ;. .;.. FRANK N.FARNSWORTH Mines . ;.. ..:...'.'; ...... StE.'HEN WILLIAMS Audit..... v'... ..,.,... JOSEPH T^^FERGUSON Motoi" Vehicles...,. .. .EDWARD T. FOGO Banking ...: . ...r,.,...... PAUL A. MrrcHELL Old Age Assistance...... KARL'-R. BABB Budget.....:.:...... JOHN M. WILCOXON Parks .;;.. '•.•. :.-. .^ . ,... . .W. R. WHEELOCK Claims...-....-...... GEORGE H. THOMPSON. CHARLES SHERWOOD Conservation..;...... H. A. RIDER*. Parole. 1.....;';; . PERCBT I. LOWERY Corporations...... ;..,..'. ,.:. .JAMES A. Higp { LAWRENCE E. HACKENBERG Education...... j^... ..:.. CLYDE HISSONO Police...... , .\...... GEORGE MINGLE Emplc^ymcnt Service,...".,.. .'.,E, L. KEENAN Public Assbt^nce. ...;.. .HENRY J. ROBINSON Equalization of Assessments .. CHARLES H. JONES . THARRY M. MILLER Financial Control...... H. D. T)EFENBACHER Public Utilities.'...... < HAROLD Li MASON Fire Marshal, . . .:...... RAY'GILL. V PAUL E. WEELAND Fish an<| Game...... *.. . E. L. WlCKLIFI' Public Works . .. .!..,.... FRANK L. RASCHIC Forestry.. . OyiD A. ALDERMAN Purchasing...... ; -J. W. BARTON Geology... . GEORGE W. WHITE Securities...... ;...... JAMES MERKLE /Health.... .JOHN D, PORTERFIELDJ M{D. Taxation...... C. EMORY GLANDER Highways. MURRAY D. ^HAFFER . Unemployment. Compensation FRANK J. QOLLOPY Insane...... FRAZIER REAMS Veterans'^...... ;....;...,-... .WADE Q. CHRISTY /Insurance. :...... LEE SHIEUJ Water Resources...... T. .FRANK L. RASCHIG .Labor...... WILLIAMJ. ROGERS Welfait* ...... CHARLES,L. SHERWOOD Library (Archives and History)...,. H; LINDLEY Woi-kmen's Compensation, .. .. .WILL T. BLAKE •'-^- • '., '.^^'-•' "^;^:"'-'^C^'' V • •••••'• \ '-'.-•• • \ • •• 'i: •. '•• -y.- •.••y>f;. ••;«i?i fj^ OKLAHOMA /Nickname. .The"Sooner State Bird (unofficial);...... Bobwhitc • Motto. .•;...... Labor Omnia Viricit Song. :'..'... Oklahoma: A Toast (Labor Conquers All Things) Entered the Union November 1.6, 1907 . Floiwer... .Mistletoe # LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE OKLAHOMA PLANNING .AND : SERVICE RESOURCES BOARtf Oklahoma State Library Chairman: CLARENCE BURCH Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Tit^ 82, Oklahoma • RALPH HUDSON, State Librarian Statutes 1941, as amended by S.B.. 46, Reg. Sess., 21st Leg. . ELIZABETH C. COOPFR, Reference Librarian Funds Available July 1, 1947-J.une 30, 1948: $686,625 ; : ,. ServicGs: Shortly before each session of the legislature convenes every member is Activities: The Board formulates and asked to indicate the subjects of legislation constantly revises the state plan to develop inwhich he is interested. Acting in accord the natural, agricultural and industrial re ance with these replies and later reques;tsj sources of the state through federal-state the State. Library conducts research, corn- and stat^-local cooperation. . piles and collects matelrials, prepares di-. Communities are assisted in. the inven gests, etc., for use of the legislators, 'l^lls tory of their resources and needs; their de are drafted on request. A file of all printe;d sires are analyzed and incorporated in the legislative documents is constantly mairi- state plan. The Board acts at the invita tained, and the original bills introduced tion ^6d request of the local interests. ' are received by the State Library for per A veterans' assistance program has been manent file at the close of each legislative inaugurated; plans for public works pro]-- session. "" ects have been extended. 1 STATISTICS STATE MANUAL Area (square miles)...... 70,057 Directory of the State of Oklahoma, Rank.in Nation.. ..;. ..17th Population (estimated 1945='?i : g,034,46Q sued by the State Election Board . Rank in Nation (1945), .* ,,^26th Published biennially Density per square liiile (1940).'...... 33.7 Total Pages: 202 Current yolume: 1945 Number of Representatives in Congress. . /. .;.8 . i^izc in inches: 5>^ x 8X FiscalYearJuly 1,1945-June 30, 19.46 Total Revenue...... ,.SU3,604,000» -The Directory of the State of Oklafioma con Total Expenditures...... •.: .. . ..S124,303,0()0» tains a complet^*roster of. the executive,, State University... '. . . . . University oj Oklahoma legislative, and judicial officers of the state Site...... i...... Norman from 1907 to date. It is primarily an ab Capital City. . ., ...... Oklahoma City stract of votes of the last previous general Population (1940)...... 204,424 election. This abstract is a complete can Rank in State... ..\\. [•:,..• .1st vass including votes by cdunties and votes Largest City...... Oklahoma City on constitutional amendments and initi- Population (1940), ..:...... 204,424 ated-and referred statutes since Oklahoma Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.... .21 became a state. (Note: The 1947 issue will Number of Counties...., •/••.,-• ..'. .. .77 be published in 1948.) 'U. S. Bureau of Census report , '. 576 e^v. OKLAHOMA Sll OFFICERS Governor ...§Lov J. TURNER Lieutenant Governor. .JAMES E. BERRV*" Secrfetary of State ...... '.. vVlLBURN CARTWRIGHT " Attorney Geni.-ral.MAC Q. WILLIAMSON State Treasurer... .:. TOHN D. CONNER • State Auditor A. S. J. SHAW OKLAHOMA SUPREME COURT Chief Justice.., . .THUR:.MAN S. HURST Eight Associate Judges Term. . .-..;.. . .Six years Ho.s. MAC Q;WILLIAMSON- ; Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR • . Chairnutn of the Co'mmissidn on. ' _ _,^„^ : ,_,^.- ROY J. TuRj| Nickname. . The Beaveiverr State Bird...... ; VVestern Meadowlark Motto.. .. The Union Song...... Oregon, MyOregon Flower. . . )regon Grape Entered the Unioft..February 14, 1859 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE POSTWAR READJUSTMENT AND / SERVICE . . DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE ;; Oregon State Library' E.xccutive Director: JOHN W. KELLY , " , ELEANOR STEPHENS, Librarian : Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Chap. 63, Lqws 1943 Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1948: Services: A careful index is kept of legis ,5>15,000 • . • • lative material available. Research is.con- ducted upon request. Activities: Oregon's Postwar Readjust- mdfit and Development Committee is working along two lines: (1) development « • ' . - ''.•'* •, ' Legislative Service and Reference Bureau of a public works project backlog to sup plement free enterprise in the stabilization University of Oregon of employment; (2) attraction of new in ^, This semi-official ;^ bureau directed by dustries to utilize Oregon raw -materials heads of five university departments con and develop the.recreational resources of ducts investigations, makes' reports, and the state. Each poMtical subdivision de drafts bills upon'request. The attorney cides what is its most worth-while project general and his staff draft bills and advise and sets up a reserve to finance it. Suffi legislators upon the validity of proposed cient public works are now cataloged to measures. The Supreme Court Library, insure employment'for six or more years renders research and library service. after the end of the war. ' . " c^) .•••••...•- • -t • . • • • STATE MANUAL . STATISTICS The Oregon Blue Book Area (square miles)...... 96,981 "'. Issued by the Secretary of State Rank in Nation 9th - Published biennially . • PopulatJ^^stimated 1945).,^ ..:... 1,206,322 Rank in Nation (1945).... .'^ ...... 32nd Approx. Page|^275 _^Cu^ent^Volume: 1947-48 o^^jty p^^ square mile. (1940)...... 11.3 Number of Representatives in Congress...... 4 . The Oregon Blue Book contains a complete Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 • / directory of the three departments of the Total Revenue...... 5223,816,196 state government, it has a large amount Total Expenditures... .$206,919,404 of descriptive material of the state admin- State University..,...... ; University of Oregon istrative departrnents, and a directory of Site. . ..iEugene county officials. It contains also a roster of Capital City. . . . . Salem federal officials in the state, and many Population (1940)....,...... ;.. .30,908 miscellaneous facts including a brief his- Rank in State...:.;;..... :..,.. .2nd tory of Oregon,.election statistics, and a list Largest dity...... 1...... Portland of newspapers and periodicals published in Population (1940) ...... , .305,394- sr Oregon. The 5/««^J5ooA;: is illustrated and Number of Cities Sver 10^000 Population...... 8 has"" an index. Number of Counties...... ;.. 36 • •'.•••' 578 :J • I. ' 11 f ••• 0^ OREGON 579 / OFFICERS • Governor...... JOHN H. HALL' Lieutenant Governor ...... None Secretary of State.,.. EARL T. NEWBRY Attorney General.. GEORGE W. NEUNER State Treasurer....;. .LESLIE M. SCOTT State Auditor...... , EARL T. NEWBRY 1 Succeeded to governorship upon death of Gov ernor Earl Snell, October 30, 1947. OREGON SUPREME COURT Chief Justice....;... GEORGE ROSSMAN Six Associate Justices Term . . . . '.'. .Sixyears HON. GEORGE K. AIKEN Elected by popular vote GOVERNOR.' Chairman of the Commissipn on JOHN H. HAIX . Interstate Cooiieration LEGISLATURE President of the Senate...... :.. (Vacancy) Speaker of the House .... (Vacancy) Ghief Clerk. MRS. ZVLPHA ZELL BURNS Chief Clerk... . CLARIBEL BUFF Senators Representatives Tjerm . Regular Session D... 5 D .2 Senate.. . 4 years Second Monday in January, biennially in R. . .25 R ...58 House... 2 years odd ye^rs. Length: 50 days. Total. ..30 Total ..60 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House MembenJ GEORGE K. AIKEN, Cnairman CARL ENGDAHL V W. W. CHADVVI/K VICTOR P. MORRIS MERLE R. CHESSMAN ^ CARL H. FRAI^QIS GEORGE H. FLAGG EARL T. !^{EWBRY • ALEX G. BARRM PAUL E. GURSKE IRVING RAND ..ROBERT C. GILII GEORGE NEUNER PAUL L. PATTERSON / FRANK J. VAN DYKE Ex-officxo Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant-General (Acting). . RAYMOND F. OLSON Library (Archives) .DAVID O. DUNIWAY Advertising..... • ,.... .MANLEY F. ROBISON Library (Historical Society) i.. .L. POLLARD Aeronautics ...... LEO G. DEVANEY Library (Law)...... E, N. GILLINGHAM - Agriculture.... .^ .,...... !.... E. L. PETERSON Library (State)...,. ELEANOR STEPHENS Audit...... '. EARL T. NEWBRY Liquor Control .'.HUGH R. KIRKPATRICK Banking...... ARTHUR A. ROGERS Mines.. .F. W. LIBBEY Budget.... — ."... .GEORGE K. AIKEN Motor Vehicles. EARL T. NEWBRY Claims EARL T. NEWBRY Old Age Assistances.;...... LOA HOWARD ; Corporations. MAURICE HUDSON Parks.... I...... SAMUEL H. BOARDMAN . Corrections. ROY H.,,MILLS Parole...... : H. M. RANDALL :' Education'...... REX PUTNAM Personnel ROBERT R. JoHNSONfj'g) Employment Service...... EARL R. LOVELL Planning...... ;\ :...... JOHN W. KELLY" Equalization of Assessments .. . .CARL CHAMBERS Police.,....«..;...... HAROLD C.MAISON . Fire Marshal .SETH B. THOMPSON Printing. , .E. G. HOBBS Fish. . . i ARNIE J. SUOMELA Public UtilitiiEs!....,...... GEORGE H. FLAGG Forestry N. S. ROGERS Purchasing...... S. B. GILLETTE Game*...... FRANK B. WIRE Railroads...... GEORGE H. FLAGG Geology. ...,.¥. W. LIBBEY Securities .MAURICE HUDSON Health., .HAROLD M. ERICKSON, M.D. Taxation.... ^... .T; i...... <}'. .'.CARL CHAMBERS Highwa)^, ...... R. H.BALDOCK Unemployment Compensation... . .SILAS GAISER Insane.. ?*?>...... DONALD WAIR, M.D. Veterans. ."...... WILLIAM F. GAARENSTROM JOHN C. EVANS, M.D. Water Resources...... CHARLES E.STRICKLIN Insurance ...;..... SETH B. THOMPSON Welfare...... ,...... ; i, LOA HOWARD —. Labor. ..;... i.... .W, E. KIMSEY Workmen's Compensation ..... PAUL E. GURSKE s \,. PENNSYLVANIA r«Jickname .Vi .... .The Keystone State Bird...... ; ...... Ruffed Grouse Motto.,. Virtue, Liberty and Independence Song...... ;N6ofiicialsong Flower.,.:...... Mountain Laurel. Entered the Union December 12,1787 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PENNSYLVANIA STATE, SERVICE . PLANNING BOARD Legislative Reference Bureau Ejcecutive Director: FRANCIS A. PITKIN . Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Act No. 50, P.. L. 101, S. EDWARD HANNESTAD, Director May, 1939, as amended by Act No. 183, Jiine, . 1947. • . Services: Drafts most of the bills intro Appropriation: S200,000 for 1947-1949. duced in the General Assembly, and for various departments of the Common ' Activities: The Board is engaged in an wealth;, maintains a legislative reference analyisis of industrial trends and in other and ir.quiry service. A-file is kept of bills, economic research as a basis for the pro classified according to subject, as well as a gram of the State Department of Com file of reports of departments, boards, and merce. It is stimulating plannix^g by local commissions, and other public documents. and state agencies and maintains a con tinuing; inventory of proposed state and The Bureau also prepares indices for local public works. It is .concerned with bound volumes of laws and chronological the development of maps for Pennsylvama, tables appearing therein. Topical codifi maintains a file of air photographs cover cations of (Existing laws are prepared for. in ing the state, and acts as inforrnation cen troduction as- directed by the General As ter for such subjects as land use diata, pop sembly. ulation estimates, industrial trend infor mation, etc. In abolishing, the J^ostwar Planning Commission, as of May 3/1, 1947, the General Assembly assigned to the State Planning Board the responsibility for com STATE MANUAL pleting the currently active programs of The Pennsylvania Manual the Commission. Issued by Department of Property and Supplies , STATISTICS . Area (square miles).'.....- .45,333 Published biennially Rank in Nation ., 32nd Total Pages: 1,156 Current Volume: 1945 Population (estimated 1545)...... 9,193,957 Size in inches: 6 X 9 Rank in Nation (1945)...... \ ... ^ • 2nd- Density per square mile (1940)...'.!,..., 219.8 Number of Representatives in Congress ;,; . .. .33 The Pennsylvania Manual contains a com Fiscal Year June 1, 1945-May 31-, 1946 ' plete directory of executive, legislative, and Total Revenue. ,-...... $325,986,097 judicial departments of the state, govern-. Total Expenditures....,...... $337,158,346 ment, including biographical sketches of. Institution of-Htgher Education -^ the state's chief officers, and complete de .. Pennsylvanfa State College Site .....;;...... State College scriptions of the powers and duties of state Capital City ..Harrisbiirg officials and executive boards and com-' Population (1.940) 83,893 missions. There is an abstract of votes of Rank in State. . ...'.....;... .8th the last primary and general elections, Largest City...... ;...... Philadelphia Populatioh (1940) 1,931,334 and a directory of federal officials in Penn Number of Cities over 10,000.Population.... .92 sylvania. Number of Counties.-.... .^ .... 67 A 580 ' • \^ ff^. ?*> PENNSTLVANIA 581 OFFICERS Governor .JAMES H. DUFF Lieutenant Governor .....,..;...... DANIEL STRICKLER , Secretciry of Cominonwealth ...... CHARLES M. MORRISON . . Attorney General ...... :.'. .THOMAS McK. CHIDSEY State Treasurer...... RAMSEY S. BLACK Auditor General.. .G. HAROLD WAGNER • PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT Chief Justice. ...^. .GEORGE W.MAXEY Six Associate Judges HON. ORUSJ. MATTHEWS Term...... ,Twenty-one years GoyKRNOR Chairman of the Coaimusion on Elected by popular vote JAMES H. DUFF Interstate Cooperation • LEGISLATURE • President of the Sjenate...... DANIEL STRICKLER President tro Tern SpeakeroftheHouse (Acting). .HERBERT P. SORG of theSenate...... ; .M. HARVEY TAYLOR Chief Clerk Secretary of the Senate... . .'G. HAROLD WATKINS bfthe House ..... WILLIAM E. HABBYSHAW Senators Representatives • Term . Regular Session D .16 D...."...... 37 Senate... 4 years First Tuesday in January, biennially-in odd R...... 34 R...... 168 House... 2 years years. Length: no constitutional limit. Total. .50 Vacancies.... .3 • . . " • Total...... 208 • p...... COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION, Administrative Members Senate Menibers House Members ^ ORUSJ. MATTHEW'S, Chairman WELDON B. HfeYBURN ELLVVOOD J; TURNER CHARLES M. MORRISON MONTGOMERV F. CROVV^E THOMAS B, STOCKHAM WILLIAM S. LIVENGOOD, JR. JACOB W. CXRR JAMES E. LOVETT WILUAMH. CHESNUT O. J. TALLJ^IAN NORMAN WOOD CHARLES A. BARBER JOHN H. D£NT (Vacancy; Ex-qfficio Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR Acting Secretary: MARY E. WRIGHT \ , ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General .FRANK A. WEBER Library. (State). . ,:;..-..,_. .'ALFRED D. JECEATOR Aeronautics W.X. ANDERSON Liquor Control..;. f>i..-. FREDERICK T. GELDER Agriculture. . .MILESHORST Mines! .,..'.'...... "...... focHARD MAIZE Audit..; G. HAROLD WAGNER Mo.tor Vehicles ALVIN C. WALKER Banking. D. EMMERT'BRUMBAUGH Parks. ;,.'.... MILFORD BRATTON Budget. . EDWARDB.LOGAN Parole...... ; .HENRY C. HILL Commerce • •: • • • • • -ORUSJ. MATTHEWS Personnel...... :...... GEORGE YOUNG Corporations EDGAR T. HAJSMER Planning ...... ;...... FRANCIS A. PITKIN Education. .FRANCIS B. HAAS Tolice ..CM. WiLHELM Employment Service..... A. .'\LLEN SULCOWE ' Pr6pei;;Jy and Supplies . e. M. WqOLWORTH Fish G. A. FRENCH Public Assistance. . ..i .FRANK R'. ROBBINS •^ss. Forestry MiLtf F. .DRAEMEL ^i^licUtmtie^..^.,..; . JOHN SIGGINS, JR.- Game... ..;.; SETH GORDON Piirchasirig-...... ^ ..F. CARL ANDERSON Health.....'...... NORRIS-WISTAR VAUX, M.D. Re-vfenue.'. "J'.:.."...... DAVID W. HARiiis Highways .0... .71:.. .RAY F. SMOCK jSeeuritieslit. . '. RAYMOND A. Cox Insurance ;JAMES F. MALONE Uneniployment Compensation.. .T. J. DONAGHY Labor...... WILLIAM H. CHESN.trr Veterans...... WILLIAM E. ZIMMERMAN Library (Archives and Histpry)... ,p. A. CADZQW Welfare...... CHARLES R. BARBER "Library (Law). •,..,... .DOUOLAS A?> PORTZAIINE" Workmen's Compensation .. DANIEL G. MURPHY •" '^ •.•>••-"•• 'UM mmM >f '•• s RHODE ISLAND Flower. . ; ...... Violet Nickname.. . . Little Rhody ^Song. .'. ; . Rhode Island Motto...... Hope Entered the Union. , May ;29,1790 • LEGISLATIVE REFEREN^^ RHODE ISLAND STATE SERVICE . PLANNING BOARD r pmclatfvp Rpferenrp Riirra.i Director: ALVAH J. WEBSTER : Legislative Kclerence Bureau Legal Basis: (Chap. 13, Gen. Laws of 1938, also State Library j«tf Chap. 660, Public Laws, 1939) Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1§48: MABEL G. JOHNSON $24,555' Legislative Reference Deputy 4^i/w7f(?K The Rhode Island State-Plan- _ . _, .- ,, . _ , _. ning Board is conducting its postwar plan- ^•fl'j^icw.- The. Legislative Reference Bu- ning program through seven committees: reau undertakes to furnish complete Aviation, Pollution Abatement, Builcfing legislative reference .service. It supplies . Program, Transportation, Recreation and information on the laws of other states, on Conservation, Advancement of Local Plan- legislation, enacted m Rhode Island at any ^j^d Agriculture, time, and maintains ready references to - legislative material. Pending legislation in COMMISSION ON COORDINATION Rhode Island and several other states is ; ^j^j) EXECUTION OF POSTWAR available. Bills, are drafted, and general PROCRAMS advice given on municipal as well as state .^ r>rohlf»m,*„ government m federal postwar projects. , Issued by the Secretary of State \ p.,;. ,.. .„ . STATISTICS Published biennially • , • Are^ a ,(squar e miles)^^ s . • • . V; i1,30 inn0 Total Pages: 500 Current Volume: 1947-48 Rank in Nation."...... :•.', .\ : .... .48th Size in inches: 4^ x 7^ • Population (estimated 1945)., ;;,,.., ... ..758,222 Rank in Nation (1945)... :^j.;::U;,.... 36th The Rhode Island Manual contains acorn- .. Density per square mile (I9|^0|;f:^- .•.;.. .674.2 plete directory of executive, legislative, and Number of Representatives in 'Congress...... 2 judicial^departmen.. of the. state govern- : ^^IT'^^Se'.',".^^.""^ '''::.'."'s27,I79,933 merit. Included also are rules of order and Total Expenditures...... -.. .$27,161,147 committees of the Senate and House, as Institution of Higher Education -Avfell as adequate statistics. There is noted ..;....-...... Rhode Island State College the complete composition of officials^pf all e^Si GUyV;;;;;;;; •;;;::;-::::;:.PSS cities and towns in the state and a listing Population (1940)...... 253,504 of all federal agencies operating in the Rank in State ...... 1st state. There is considerable miscellaneous Largest Qty (1940) ...... Providence information concerning the-state and its ^^^^^2;^^-^ ^ \oflo6'"'"" long history as well as biographical mate- Population ...... -.... 15 rial concerning the legislators. " " Number of Counties.....:...... 5 ' . ' . -•' ••• 'A .. •• . '•. v582. . ••' • " -:••'. '••.,; tr RHODE ISLAND r 4. 583 OFFICERS ' \ , Governor ...... JOHN O. PASTORE Lieutenant Governor...... JOHN S. MCKIERNAN Secretary of State. . . •. ARMAND H, COTE ^Ajiorney General.... ; .JOHN H-. NOLAN State Treasurer.. RussfeLL H. HANDY Director of Finance (Acting) .;'.. HovifARD A. KENYON Controller...... ; M. JOSEPH CUMMINGS RHODE ISLAND SUPREME COURT 'Chief Justice...... EDMUND W. FLYNN • Four Associate Justices \ •Term: Until place is declaired vacant by legislature Elected by both houses of the legislature •^ in grand committee (^ GOVERNOR. Hon. HERMAN D. FERRARA • . Chairman of the Commission on JOHN O. PASTORE Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate!.... .JOHN S. MCKIERNAN President Pro Tem SpeakeroftheHouse...... • . .HARRYF. CURVIN of the Senate WILLIAM B. SV/EENEY Reading Clerk of the House.. HENRY R. SULLIVAN Secretary of the Senate ARMAND H. Cpxfe Senators Representatives Terin Regular Session R .27 R :... 43 Senate^.. 2 years . First Tuesday in January, annually. D;...... 15 D...... 55 House.; .2 years Length: 60 days with pay; period may be Ind. R...... 1 Ind ....1 , ; extended. Ind...... 1 Vet...'...... 1 Total...... 44 Total...... too COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members'. Senate Members •• House Members EDWARD SOVTHWICK, Secretary . WILLIAM J. THOMPSON HERMAN D. FERRARA, WILLIAM C. E. WiLczEK RAYMOND A. MCCABE Chairman . REUBEN LiPsoN JOSEPH PEZZULLO JOHNJ. WRENN SIDNEY CLIFFORD' JAMES J. BRADY WILLIAM E. POWERS (Vacancy) HOWARD R. SMART • Ex-officio Honorary Members.TH E GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GTOVERNOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS- -' , Adjutant General (Acting)... JAMES A..MURPHY Library (Archives and History)TTmARY T. QUINN Advertising (Industry)..... ^ .. E. S. WOODMANCY Library (Law)...... CLARENCE F. ALLEN Advertising (Recreation)..;... . ARM.\ND H. COTE Library (State) GR^CE M. SHERWOOD Aeronautics..,... V ALBERT R. TAVANI Et^uor Control (Acting) .... JAMES S; DANEKER Agriculture...... RAYMOND G. BRPSSLER Motor Vehicles. . . .:...... LAURE B. LUSSIER Audit...... M, JOSEPH CUMMINGS Qld Age Assistance (.Acting).. . ELIZABETH SMITH Banking ...;;. ALEX CHVUELEWSKI Parks...... '...... SAMUEL W. SMITH, JR. Budget...... HOWARD A. KENYON Parole.....;.....;...... JOSEPH H. HAGAN Controller , . .. .!^. JOSEPH CUMMINGS Personnel .. CHARLES H. CUSHMAN Conservation...... RAYMOND G. BRESSLER Planning...... ALVAH J. WEBSTER Corporations...... ARMAND H. Cort Police ...... E. RALPH BONAT Corrections;...... JOSEPH H. HAGAN Port Authority . : ...... AMBROSE P. MCCOY Education. MICHAEL F. WALSH Public Assistance (.Acting).; ELIZABETH M. SMITH Employment Service. . . . .THOMAS H. BRIDE, JR.; Public Utilities...... THOMAS A. KENivfELLY Equalization of Assessments.. EDWARD L. LEAHY Public Works ...... ORESTO DISAIA Fire Marshal.. . , Ey RALPH BONAT Purchasing.. .FRANKLYN A.~ ADAMS Fish and Game. .EDWARD C. HAYES, JR. Securities...... ! WARREN L. OFFER Forestry. .SAMUEL W. SMITH, JR. Taxation...... ^. \ EDWARD L, LEAHY Health...... EDWARD A. MCLAUGHLIN,M.D. Unemployment Highways...... GEORGE H. HENDERSON Compensation.-...... MORTIMER W. NEWTON Insane...... ' EDWARD P. REIDY Veterans...... •.....-...... RAY C. LONG Insurance GEORGE A. BISSON Welfare..;...... EDWARD P. REIDY Labor (Acting)...... -.JOSEPH T. CAHIR Workmen's Compensation.; .. E. I. FRIEDMAN SOUTH GAROLINA =5* Nickname.. .The Palmetto State Flower. Yellow. Jessamine Motto...... Ahimis Opibiisque Parati Bird...;...... Mockingbird (Ready in Soul and Resource) Song...... '.:.'. ... .Carolina Tree. m . Palmetto Entered the Union. .... May.23,1788 ••'/ ,''• :•-.:. ••.^•- V' •;••• /• • , '. LEGISLATIVE E,EFERENGE DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH, SERVIGE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT South Carolina State Library Chairman: A. STANLEY LLEWELLYN : Director: R.M.COOPER ; MRS. VIRGINIA G. MOODY, Librarian Legal Basis: Legislative Act, r945 Services: There is no Separate section of . Activities: The Department is to conduct the State Library devoted to legislative ref- a statewide, planning and development ererice work, and no appropriation. Ma- program to stimulate economic activities terial is made available to legislators, and within the state. A- board of five members a subject file- of bills introduced is main- appointed by the governor with, the advice tained. The attorney general drafts bills • and consent of the Senate acts as the policy upon request during legislative sessions, determining body. The code cbmmissipner makes a.continu-^ ous revision of the South Carolina Code, and indexes the statutes after each legis- . lative session. * . "^ ^;; Cleik of the House of Representatives . , . James E. Hunter Jr., Clerk of the STATISTICS House of Representatives has been very Area (squaremiles).,...... 30,989 helpful in furnishing itiformation to the Rank in Nation^...... ;...... :.?.;.•. 39th Council of State Governments. _ , • . . . '> ^o^c\ i nnc cn-7 Population (estimated 1945)...... 1,905,597 =, 'RMcinNation (1945)...... 27th STATE MANUAL , %/ '•/ Density per square mile (1940)...... :. ..62.1 - The Legislative Manual of South Carolina -../''Number gf Representatives in Congress. ; .6 Issued by the Clerk of House of Representatives FiscalYearJuly 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 • „ , ,. , ; „ Total Revenue.: 880,352,0001 Published annually Total Expenditures $84,227,0001 Total Pages: 380 Current Volume: 1947 o-^ TT • •» TT • •* re *u/-i r , .Sizain inches: 3;^ x5>^_ State University. .. .University of South Carolina Intended primarily as a~ handbook for . 'l^. '• ci b* meiribers of the General Assembly^ The ^P'^ ^^y- ••••/ •••.• . oumia Legislative Manual of South Carolina contains Population. (1940)...... ,.:...;. .62,396 as well a complete roster of the executive, Rank in Stkte...... ;... .2nd legislative, and judicial departments qf the' Largest City...... Charleston state, together with county, state, and fed- Population (1940)...... :...... 71,275 eral officials in the state. The booklet is .. . en-.- innnnn i.,*- m .,, ^ J • 1 J • I J J. • Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.... .10 illustrated m color, and includes an exten- '^ ^ sive amount of biographical raatej-.ial. Number of Counties...... 46 There is an index. "U.S. Bureau of Census rej^ort. '-^^•''•••'•.'- : 584 ^••' ' •/ . •• '•:/•:•;• •..••-':•• SOUTH CAROLmA 585 OFFICERS Governor...... '.. .J. STROM THURMOND Lieutenant Governor ...."...... GEORGE BELL TIMMERMAN Secretary of State.;.. W. P. BLACKWELL Attorney General.... .JOHN M. DANIEL State Treasurjer. . . . r... .JEFF B. BATES Comptroller General. .-...£, C. RHODES State Auditor,...... J. M. SKUTH •a •<}..' SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT Chief Justice....,. . .iD!'|GoRDON BAKER ^ Four Associate Justices Term...... ;.... .Ten years SENATOR EDOAR A. BROWN ^ Chairman of the Commission on > Elected by General Assembly GoyER-VOR Interstate Cooperation . ; J. STROU THURMO.ND, : LEGISLATURE President of the Senate. GEORGE BELL TIMMERM.AN Clerk of the Senate.; JAMES H. EOWLES •. President Pro Tem Speaker of the House...[.:.. .BRUCE LITTLEJOHN' of the. Senate...... EDGAR A. BROVS^ Clerk of the House...... JAMES E. HUNTER, JR. . Senators Representatives Term Regular Session- D...... 46 D.... 124 Senate,. .4 years SecondTuesday in January, annually. Total...... 46 Total...... 124 House. r.2years Length: no constitutional limit. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administriative Members Senate Members ..*.«**°^^~' House Members JOHN M. DANIEL . EDGAR A. BROVV^N, CAaiVman NATHANIEL W. CABELL JAMES E. HIJNTER, JR JAMES B, PRUITT WALTER L. MARTIN J, M, SMITH i W. BRANTLEY HARVEY CALHOUN THOMAS (Vacancy) J. D, PARLER TRACY J. GAINES (Vacancy) ^ L. MARION GRESSETTE " HUGH R. COLCLOUGH Ex-officio Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... JAMES C. DOZIER Insurance .L. GEORGE- BENJAMIN Advertising...... R. M. COOPER Labor...... ;...... v.R. L. GAMBLE /Aeronautics...... :..... DEXTER C. MARTIN Library (Archives and History)... A, 8. SALLEV Agriculture ,' ... .J. ROY JONES Library (Law),... ..'...... j, G, WESTBROOK Audit...... >...... y.. y.:.. .J. M. SMITH Library (State)...... MRS. VIRGINIA G. MOODY Banking. JEFF B; BATES Liquor Control. , ...... 'WALTER G. QUERY Budget. ;.,....; J, M. SMITH Motor Vehicles...... W. L. HARDEMAN Claims. ;. E. C, RHODES Old Age Assistance...... : A. B. RIVERS Comptroller...... E, C. RHODES Parks.,, •...... CHARLES H. FLORY Conservation..:...... :.... A. A. RICHARDSON Parole. : .J. C. TODD Corporations...... ,. :W.[ P, BLACKW^ELL Planning R. M, COOPER Corrections. .J. C. TODD Police,...... ^..... W. L. HARDEMAN Education...... JEISSE T, ANDERSON Port Authority ...... ARTHUR ST. J. SIMONS Employment Service..;,..... W, RHETT HARLEY Printing...... B.. P. DAVIES Equalization of Assessments.... .;. . W, G. QUERY Public Assistance ...... ".A. B. RIVERS Financial Control... . ,.!. .J, STROM THURMOND Public Utilities and Railroads..;.. ED. WIMBERLY Fish a:nd Game, ,,... ;...... A'..A, RICHARDSON Securities...... ,. -...... WALTER p. QUERY Forestry .CHARLES H. FLORY Taxation ... ,.!...... WALTER G. QUERY Geology...... STEPHEN TABER Unemployment Compensation.jAMES JUUEN BUSH Health.,...... BEN F, WYMAN, M,D. Veterans... i...... R. STEDMAN SLOAN Highways, j...... J, S. WiLLiAiisON Welfare...... ;... .«^...... A. B. RIVERS Insane,...... '.. COYT HAM, M.D. Workmen's Compensation .. .W. L. DE PASS, JR. • -''"^v^^- ^;-'.:-;-#>L SOUTH DAKOTA ••/. Nickname...... ,The Coyote State Bird...... , .Ringnecked Pheasant Motto....'.. Under God the People Rule Song Hail, South Dakota Flower..:. A: . : Pasque'Fl6wcr Entered the Union November-2, 1889. ' • • , . • -^ •; • ••:.'.. WD- LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE . PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE , • \ AGENCY' .;,. :•;. . No Jormal service Activities: Postwar planning activities in "S*"' South Dakota are being carried on through South Dakota has no regular legislative the appropriate state departments. The neference service. Will G. Robinson, Sec State Highway Commission has assembled retary of the State Historical Society, has a shelf of projects^, and has as many of them been very helpful in furnishing informa ready as is financially practicable. The tion to the. Council of State Governments. Board of Regents has prepared a shelf .of building, repair, and improvement projects for state educational institutions, and the, Board of Charities and Corrections has done the same for institutions under its charge. The South Dakota Natural Resources Commission was. created by the 1943 legis-- STATE MANUAL lature and has a biennial appropriation for 1947-1948. - , The South Dakota Legislative Manual Issued by the "Department of Finance , Published biennially. . STATISTICS • • Total pages; 470 ' Current Volume: 1947. Area (square miles) ;. .77,615 •^ Size in inches: 6 X 9. Rank in Nation...... '.15th The South Dakota Legislative Manual con Popuiatioin (estimated 1945)...... '... .589,702 tains a complete directory of the executive Rank in Nation (1945);...,.!...... 39th and legislative departments of the stiate Density per square mile (1940)...... 8.4 governmentT A large amount of biograph Number of Representatives in Congress...... 2 ical material is included together with a Fisoal Year July 1,1945—June 30, me*" - ~ copy of the state constitution. Extensive Total Revenue...... i ''.. .825,794,0001 ' election statistics are given, and state insti Total Expenditures...... 520,767,0001 tutions .are described at some length. There State University University of South Dakota is an index. The Manual is distributed by Site...... Vermillion the Secretary of State. Capital City ..... i... .Pierre An unusual section of The Manual lists Population (1945)...... ,...... 4,448. all appropriations for departments of the Rank in State...... ; ; ...... 11th state government from the date of state Largest City...... ,...;...... Sioux Falls hood (1889) to date. Of special interest is Population(1945)...... ; .'.<^:.!m^^(^'f. the brief "South Dakota Chronology," the Nurnber of Cities over 10,000 Population"...... 6 derivation of names of counties, and the Number of Organized Counties. .. . 64 inclusion in full of the 1946 state platforms -Unorganized Counties. ^ ...... i4 of political parties. 'U.S.Bureau of Ceiuus reports 586 ill SOUTH DAKOTA 587 OFFICERS Governor:...... GEORGE T. .MICKELSON Lieutenant Governor " ...... SIOUX K. GRIGSBY Secretary of State .... , ANNAMAE RUFF Attorney General ... SIGURD ANDERSON State Treasurer ;. C. E. BUEHLER , State Auditor... ..STEVE E. ANDERSON Commissioner of School and Public Lands...... JOHN A. LUNDEN ^^^^^M- SOUTH DAKOTA ^^^^^m SUPREME COURT Presiding Judge ...... V. E. SICKEL Four other judges All five judges are of equal rank at all times ' , , HON. STEVE E.ANDERSON Term...... ;Six years GOVERNOR '^Chairman of the Ck)mmi.ssion on Elected by popular vote GEORGE T. MICKELSON Interstate Gboperatton • . LEGISLATURE. President of the Senate. ;... Sioux K. GRIGSBY President Pro Tem of the Senate:'... .E. L- STAVIG Speaker of the House ...... G. W. MILLS - Secretary of the Senate...... NIELS P. JENSEN Clerk of the House...... ^"W.}. MATSON ' . Senators Representatives Term Regular Session y!...... 0 D...... 3 Senate...2years Tuesday after first Monday in January, K.; .35 R./- .72 • House.. .2years biennially in odd years. Length: 60 days. .Total. . ..j^:.35 Total. ..75 • ^ ^ • COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION -^ Administrative Members Senate Members Hoiise Members , GEORGE T. MICKELSON DONALD W. BEATV CARL MILER . STEVE E. ANDERSON, Chairman REX TERRY WILLIAM DEBOER SIGURD ANDERSON • J. H. LAM&IERS JOHN W. DEAHN CLARENCE E. BUEHLER p. J, FETT fji- CHARLES J. LUNDBERG W.R; WILDER .SIOUX K. GRIGSBY G. W. MILLS ^ Ex-officio Honorary Member: THE GOVERNOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS , . » • • Adjutant General...... ;...... TED ARNDT Library (Archives and History). W. G. ROBINSON Advertising/ ...... ;!...... A. H. PANKOW Library (Law)...... J. W. RAISH Aeronautical. .v. L. V. HANSON Liquor Control ...... ,;...... W. R. WILDER , \ , AgricultureVT...... :. .LESLIE V. AUSMAN Mines...... '...... M. CLAIR SMFTH Audit. ?..'. .STEVE E. ANDERSON Motor Vehicles...... E. S. GOFF Banking. .-.VERNE ABEEL Old Age Assistance;...... :.. .F. C, DRAKE Budget. .CHARLES J; DALTHORPE Parks ...... ELMER PETERsfoN Claims...... SIGURD ANDERSON Parole .. .J. h. QUINN Comptroller. ,...•.'... .JOHN C. PENNE Personnel...... HOWARD SELVIG . Corporations. .ANNAMAE RIIFF Planning...... C.F.OVERTON Corrections...... ^..FRED L. FERGUSON Police....,....;...... -.-:..W.J. GoETZ Education ...... \ ..... 7^^ ...... '.JOHN HINES Printing. CHARLES J. DALTHORPE Employnaent Service ...... L. J. BALLQU Public Assistance...... F. G. DRAKE Equalization of/\ssessments ...... W. R. WILDER Public Utilities and Railroads...; .E.F. NoRMAK Fire Marshal..'...... ,...... W. A. MUELLER Purchasing."...;...... CHARLES J. DALTHORPE Fish and Game...... :...... ELMER PETERSON Securities.- ...... VERNE W. ABE^L • Forestry...... :...... F. L ROCKWELL Taxation ...... W.R. WILDER Geology ...... ;. .f^...... E. P. ROTHROCK Unemployment Compensation. ALAN WILLIAMSON Health...... r.'T... .GILBERT COTTAM, M.D. Water Resources...... D. W; LOUCKS . Highvyrays. .FRANK MITCHELL Veterans...... :...: .K A. JONES V -0 Insane...... :. .F. W. HAAS, M.D. Welfare...... MRS. GRACE MARTIN Insurance. W. A. MUELLER Workmen's Compensation ... V. .BEN F.MINTER V TENNESSEE Nickname.. ... The Volunteer State Bird .Mockingbird Motto!... . . Agriculture dnd Commerce Song...... -'... Afy Homeland, Tenniffee Flower...., ...'...... Iris Entered the Union. June 1,1796 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE TENNESSEE STATE PLANNING SERVICE COMMISSION , No formal service. Executive Director: HAYDEN B.JOHNSON Legal Basis: Legislative ,Act, Chap. 43, Public There is no official departnient of the Acts 1935 . "" . • staite government which furnishes legisla Funds Available July ,1, 1947-June 30, 1948: tive reference seryice. A private agency, $110,000' the Tennessee Legislative Service, estab ,-. ActivitiesrThe. Tennessee State Planning lished in 1923, functions during legislative Commission, which has been active since sessions, Hayden B. Johnson, Executive 1935,.conducts a five-phase program con Director of the State Planning Commis sisting of: state planning—principally state sion, has been very helpful in furnishing and local public works; research—both in information to the Council of State Gov support of the Commission's own program ernments. and as a staff agency for the Governor and General .Assembly; industrial development —publicizing the state's resources and act STATE MANUAL ing in a liaison capacity between industries 9'- seeking a location a'ndcornmunities wel Tennessee Blue Book coming new plants; local planning assist Issued by the Secretary of State, ance—providing techmp.al'rassist^hce for comrnunities operaiUng physical planning Issued in cooperation with the State Planning Commission programs; and community services—plan ning for the social aspects of state and local Published biennially development. r Total Pages: 317 Current Volume: 1945-46 Size in inches: 6 X 9 - The Tennessee Blue Book contains a com STATISTICS • V plete directory of executive, legislative, arid Area (square mileS)-; :..•...... 42,246 judicial departments of the state govern Rank in Nation...... ;, ;. 34th ment. Historical data pertaining to the state, Population (estimated 1945) . .2,878,777 the Constitution of Tennessee, the organiza Rank in Nation (1945)...... 16th tion of political parties, election returns, Density per square mile (1940)...... 69.5 Number of Representatives in Congress 10 and descriptions of the Tennessee Valley . Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 Authority, natural resources, industries and Total Revenue .... ,$99,819,396 recreational facilities of the state are in Total Expenditures.., . . .596,015,596 cluded. It contains a directory o& county State University. ,, .University of Tennessee Site...... Knoxville officers and adequate election statistics.. Capital City. Nashville The manual also contains an organization Population (1940)...... 167,402• chart of the government, descriptions of Rank in State. , ...... 2nd the activities of the various state depart Largest City. Memphis ments, several handsome, colored Opiates, Population (1940) ...... ;.. .292,942 t Number of Cities over 10,000 Population .....12' and an index. Number of Counties...... ,...... 95 588 TENNESSEE 589 "^•» OFFICERS «i Governor...;.... .JIM NANCE MCCORD Lieutenant-Governor...... None Secretary of State.... JOE C. CARR ' Attorney General ^.. . .ROYH.BEELER State Treasurer...... C. C. WALLACE State Comptroller.... .JARED MADDUX • • TENNESSEE, : • SUPREME COURT Chief Justice ...... ALEXANDER W. CHAMBLISS Four Associate Judges; • J[UDGE WiNFIELD B. HALE Term...... Eight.years . GOVERNOR : • Chairman of the Commusion on Elected by popular vote Jiu NANCE MCCORD Intergovernmental Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate. .GEORGE OLIVER BENTON^. Speaker of the House .. W. BuFORD LEWALLEN Chief Clerk of the Senate -JOHN W. COOK Clerk of the House...... ; BUCHANAN LOSER Senators Representatives Term/ ' Regular Session D^;...... 28 D.;... 77 Senate... 2 years First Monday in January, biennially in odd R...... 4 R...... 18 House... 2 years years! Lengthf no limit,,but only 75 days Ind...... 1* Ind.._...... -.4 -^.- -; - - -•- , • wit' Total....:. 33 Total...... 99 *Independent is a candidate wiffibut partisan backing. COMMISSION ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate ^Member House Member • WiNFIELD B. :HALE, .CAaiman CARMACK COCHRAN -. MC.ALLEN FOUTCH . JoHN^ A. CHAMBLISS • R,,G.;KiNKLE . Ex-qfficio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, SPEAKER OF SENATE,' SPEAKER OF HOUSE Adjutan/ t General...... ; GEORGADMINISTRATIVE HILTON BUTLER LibrarE OFFICERy (Archives San d History)^ . MRS^ J. T. MOORE; Advertising...... B. T. GREGORY Library (Law)...... DAVID S. LANSDEN Aeronaiitics .HERBERTFox Library (State);...... MRS. JOHN T. MOORE Agriculture...... ;0. E. VAN CLEAVE Liquor Control SAM K. CARSON Audit,.. ...;...... JAREDJ, MADDUX Mines.^. .J. A. WELCH Banking. H. B, CLARKE Motor Vehicles.:..;..-...... Wi F. CLARK Budget . .STANLEY H. WnrrE Old Age Assistance...... ;.MILDRED STOVES Claims...... JOHN E. 6'DELL Parks.,.,...... B. R. ALLISON Comptroller...... ; .JARED MADDUX Parole. .R. J>. GREENLAW Conservation ...... HOWELL BUNTIN Personnel...... ^^,_...... BAIN STEWART Corporations... ..;. ...,.—JOE C. CARR Planning-. HAYDEN B, JOHNSON Corrections... ;...... W. O. BAIRD, M.D. Police. ; . .LYNN BOMAR Education...... ;. .BURGIN EVJDOSSETT Public Assistance ...... MILDRED STOVES Employment Service. ^...... PAUL JESSEN Public Utilities and Railroads'. . ..A.'^T. TAYLOR Equalization of Assessniients..... v.S.K. CARSON Public Works...... , .\ . ...H. K. McKmiiffiY Fire Marshal...... JAMES M. MCCORMACK Purchasing ROBERT L, OAKLEY Fish and Game.:...... HALUE HAMM Securities. .T. H. COWDEN Forestry J. O. HAZARD Taxation : ...... '...... SAM K. CARSON Geology. *...... •...... ; .H. B. BURVVELL Unemployment Compensation....;. W. O. HAKE Health. ,.... .R. H. HUTCHESON, M.D. Water Resources. HOWELL BUNTIN Highways...... i C. W. PHILUPS Veterans....'... •..-.;...... G. W. STEAGALL Insane...... iW. O. BAIRD, M.D, Vocational Education. . '. . G. E. FBIEEMAN Insurance...... JAMES M. MCCORMACK Welfare. . .W. A. SHOAF Labor...... :.. .W. E.JACOBS Workmen's Compensation...... DAVID HANLY •ii (^"^•v, TEXAS Nickname.. .The Lone Star State Bird. Mockingbii-d Motto/,.. . . ,1^. Frimdship Song...... Texas ^ Our Texas Flower...... : .Bluebonnet Entered the Union December 29, 1845 :im LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE POSTWAR EGONOMIC :••;••'••';-;,:; -SERVIGE-; •••-;/•;•.-.•,• V PLANNING GOMMlSSrON • . . Legislative Reference Division Chairman: A. P. ROLLINS ' ^ ^ Legal Basis: Legislative Act, Pp. 1084-1085; Laws Texas State Library : -.1943, •••_•" "•••. ,- •••;-,,. •• ••. - ••, •. Appropriation: None DORIS H. CoNNERLY, Legislative Refertnce • . ' Librarian Activities:. The Commission was estab^ lished to make a study of postwar eco Services: Research is conducted upon re nomic problems; cooperate with other quest. .A daily history of bills introduced groups, local, state, and national, studying is kept during the sessions, and a card cata the subject; invite and consider suggestions log containing page references to the from individuals; make'reports to the pub daily journals. The Section has published lic and recomrnendations to public officials; certain of its researcl| studies, and has aided formulate policies for an orderly transfer of in the publication of the Texas Statesman's persons in the armed services, auxiliaries, Tearbook. Bill drafting, is done by the attor and war industries to peacetime employ-' ney general's office. The supreme court ment. A detailed statement of objectives gives library service on legal matters, and the secretary of state's office answers in has been dravyn up and is being followed quiries.. in carrying out these purposes. '/•:"._::':'.'••:/ .'.'• '---^'-/•-•••. ^ATI^ICS : Area (square miles) 265,896 ; ' Rank in Nation...... ^...... rr..-v.. .1st Population (estimated 1945). 6,786,740 STATE MANUAL Rank in Natiori (1945).^...:...... 6th ':' Texas Almanac . . . Density per square mile (1940)... .;.24.1 , Number of Representatives in Congress 21 * Issued by The Dallas News Fiscal Year September 1, 1945—August 31, 1946 •'Published biennially in odd years Total Revenue....;...... 5376,048,814 •; Total Expenditures...... 5331,878,496 f^^.V.,^m^^^O^^V^.X,^-^ S,a,e University....., .,... University of Tcxa, . ^ ^ Site...... ^^^,j>^ .Austin The Tifxa5 i4/mflnflc, privately published, Capital City...... Cp!...^.. . .„; Austin eontiains a corhplete directory of the exec- Population (1940).': /T^...... 87,930 utive, legislative, and judicial branches of Rank in State...... \...... 6th the state government, an abstract of votes Largest City .Houston of the last election, and a very considerable Population (1940). ...384,514 amount of information on state industries. Number of Cities over 10,000 Population 44 It contains an index. Number of Counties...... ,.....;.254 TEXAS 591 • • " . : • ( •OFFICERS Governor...... BEAUFORD H. JESTER Lieutenant Governor. . ..\LLAN SHIVERS Secretary of State PAUL BROWN Attorney General...... PRICE DANIEL. State Treasurer . . .JESSE JAMES State Auditor. ;.. .C. H. CAVNESS Comptroller.. . .GEORGE H. SIIEPPARD Commissioner of the General Land Office. .BASCOM GILES TEXAS SUPREME COURT. i • " Chief Justice..;.. .JAMES P. ALEXANDER Eight Associate Justices " HON. PRICE DANIEL Term. . . k-r. .:.. .Six years GOVERNOR Chairman of the Ck>iTunissioh on Elected by popular vote BEAUFORD H. JESTER Intentate Cooperation . LEGISLATURE President of the Senate...... ALLAN SHIVERS Secretary of the Senate. ^...... NOEL K. BROWN l^rcsident Pro Tem Speakei-of the House....., ... .W. Q. REED oftheSenate...... r '... .T; C. CHADICK Clerk of the House...... CLARENCE T.JONES Senators Representatives Term , Regwar Session ' D. ....31 D. ....• 150 Senate.. .4 years. Second Tuesday in ^ahuiary, biennially in • Total;...... 31 Total...... 150 House.... 2 years odd .years. Length: no constitutional limit. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members House Members PRICE DANIEL, Chairman JAMES A. STANFbRo' GEORGE O. NOKES, JR. PAUL H. BROWN FRED HARRIS LLOYD IvL GUFFEY : • HOMER GARRISON BUSTER BROWN S^. J. IsAACKis GEORGE BUTLER . GRADY HAZLEWOOD ELMER MCVEY. . DORIS H. CONNERLV GEORGE MOFFETT MRS. RAE FILES STILL Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE-GOVEIINOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General .K. L. BERRY Library (Archives and History) .H. SMITHER Aeronautics..,...... ;.!',... A.; W. MEADOWS Library (Law) .JOE LANHAM ' Agriculture ..... ,.:.. .J. E. MCDONALD Library (State) ...... ;. .FRANCIS H. HENSHAW Audif..,.. / :...... ;....'. rtJ. H. CAVNESS" Liquor Control. JOHN Y. LAWHON Banking. (Acting) '. .J. M. FALKNER Motor Vehicles;...... DEWITT C. GRE^R Budget .....'.'...... HALL H. LOGAN Old Age Assistance...... JOHN H. WINTERS • Comptroller...... GEORGE H. SHEPPARD. Parks..:....,...... ,... -...... N. H. LEE Conservation ...... E. O. THOMPSON Parole ...... ;... ABNER L. LEVVTS Corporations. PAUL BROWI^ Planning .;...... HALL H. LOGAN . Corrections.; ,,,...... D. W. STAKES Police...... I.:.., ; HOMER GARRKON, JR. Education . . L. A. WOODS Printing...... ;; .HALL H. LOGAN Employment Service. .'...... ;. G. E. BEpc Public Assistance./. .JOHN H. WINTERS Equalization of Assessments.... G. H. SHEPPARD Public Utilities and Railroad?. .E. ,0. THOMPSON Fire Marshal...... MARVIN HALL Purchasing...... '... .TOM DE BERRY Fish' and Game. H. D. DDDGEN Securities j^. .-. .LEO DARLEY Forestry. ..;..... WILLIAM E. WHITE Taxation .....,°. GEORGE H. SHEPPARD^ Hedlth....'...... GEORGE W. Cox, M.D. Unemployment Compensation ... H. B. CROZIER Highways....;...,. ;. .DEWITT C. GREER , Veterans ••.•••• (Vacancy) Insane...... "...... T. B. WARDEN . •Water Resources... .• ; E. V. SPENCE_ Insurance :...... ' ..... GEORGE B. BUTLER Welfare ...... JOHN'Hr WINTERS Labor.... .Jvl. B^ MORGAN - Workmen's Compensation...... JOHN W. LAIRD ,-«o /•O UTAH Nickname ..The Beehive State Bird (unofficial)...... Seagull Motto...... Industry ' Song...... Utah, }VeLove Thee Flower Sego Lily • Entered the Union. . .January 4,1896 Tree ;...... Blue Spruce . LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE > DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY . SERVICE / AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Legislative (Souncil Director of Parks and Commerce: AARON W. TRACY LEWIS H. LLOYD, Director Director of Publicity and Tourist Trade Services: Provides information and re ...... RULON S. HOVVELLS search service for members of the legislature. Director of Raw Materials ARTHUR L. CRAWFORD The Secretary of State has been very Legal Status: Title 82C, Chap. 3, Utah Code Annotated, 1943. helpful in furnishing information to the Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1.948: Council of State Governments. 5300,000 Activities: The general duties of the de partment are the development of tourist f.0 trade, industrial \ developrrient and re search, and the promotion of state parks. STATE MANUAL The chief publication is the Industrial Utah Officii! Roster Development^ News, published monthly by the department. • • Issued by the Secretary of State Published biennially ' STATISTICS Total; Pages: 38 Current yglume: 1947 Area, (square miles).'. 84,99 iSize in-inches: 6x9 Rink in Nation -...... lOt • f- -•'-:• Population (estimated 1945)... 616,989 The Utah Official Roster contains a com ^>\Rank in Nation (1945)., ...... 38th plete directory of the executive, legislative, Density per square mile (1940)...... ,.."... 6,7 and judicial departments of the state gov-. Number of Representatives in Congress...... 2 Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 ernment. It lists the members of the state Total Revenue S52,203,'49'4 boards and commissions, and gives also a Total Expenditures : . . . .$47,324,801 directory of all county officers in the state. State College'. . . Utah State Agricultural College There is a small amount of descriptive ma Site..'...... ,....;... .Logan State University. '. ... University of Utah terial concerning the state,- , Site. ..;...... Salt Lake City The fourth edition of Some Important Facts Capital City...... Salt Lake City About Utah, a publication of the Department Population (est. 1947) ...'...... 190,000 of Publicity and Industrial Development^, Rank in State. .'>. .1st was published in 1947. It contains statistical Larges't City. .Salt Lake City Population (est. 1947)...... 190,000 information and important data about the Number of Cities over 10,000 Population ...... 4 state and is used extensiviely in the schools.' Number of Counties. ; .29 t. 592 V ife;^- -^ . UTAH OFFICERS ^ Governor HERBERT B. MAW Lieutenant Governor .None Secretary of State . HEBER BENNION, JR. Attorney General ./: .'GROVER A. GILES State Treasurer. . .'.REESE M. REESE State Auditor.. .FERRELL H. ADAMS UTAH SUPREME COURT Chief Justice . ROGER I. MCDONOUGH Four Associate Justices. . Term Ten years Elected hy popular vote HON. RENDELL N. MABEY GOVERNOR Chairman of the Committee on y HERBERT- B. MAW Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE •qs President of the Senate ...... ALONZO F. HOPKIN Speaker of the House, ...... IIENDELL N. MABEY Secretary of the Senate..... JAMES A. MGMURRIN Clerk of the House.; .LELAND G. LARSEN Senators Representatives Term Regular Session ' . D .12 D:.... .21 Senate.. .4 years Second Monday in January, biennially in R...... 11 R.... 39 House.. .2years odd years. Length: 60 days. Total...... ;. 23 Total 60 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Member Senate Members House Members FRANK H.JONAS WARD G. HOLBROOK;" Vice-Chairman RENDEL.L N. MABEY, Chairman H. GRANT VEST FRANK BONAcm Citizen Members ORRICE C. MCSHANE, DAVID K. HOLTHER QuAYLE CANNON, JR. ELIAS L. DAY WILLIAM L. WARNER STANLEY N. CHILD SOL J. SELVIN JOHN A.MURCH. Z)/rff/or, LEWIS H. LLOYD ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General.., J. WALLACE WEST Library (Archives and History),. . .L. E. YOUNG Advertising ...... RULON S. HOWELLS . Library (Law and State)...... L. M. CUMMINOS Aeronautics ;... .JOSEPH BERGIN Liquor Control...... LAWRENCE A. JOHNSON Agriculture...... • .... .TRACY R. WELLING Mines .RICHARD H. DALRYMPLE Audit ..FERRELL H.ADAMS Motor Vehicles. ... .>...... ALLAN ROGERS Banking. ;. .J. M. KNAPP Old Age Assistance ...... PHILO T. FARNSWORTH Budget. .. ^,T. J. MIDGLEY Parks AARON W. TRACY Claims ,. ;, .HEBER LBODEN Parble. .;...... • .,OSCAR E. LOWDER Conservation i.;...... ;... ED. H. WATSON Personnel... ^...... J. WALDO PARRY Corporations. .HEBER BENNION,JR. Planning. ;. AARON W; TRACY Corrections ...... ;. HERBERT A. SNOW Police P. L. DOW Education. El ALLEN BATEMAN Printing . , .J. H. HOLBERRY Employment Service .JOSEPH MAYEII Public Assbtance ^...... PHILO T. FARNSWORTH Equalization of Assessments..... ELISHA WARNER. Public Utilities and Railroads ...... D. HACKING Fire Marshal J, WHITNEY FLOYD Purchasing J. H. HOLBERRY Fisliand Game...,...... Ross LEONARD Securities. :...... LAWRENCE TAYLOR Forestry J. WHITNEY FLOYD Taxation. ..K.'E. HAMMOND Fealth. .WELBY W. BIGELOW, M.D. Unemployment Compensation .. B. L. FLANAGAN lighways...... RAY H. LEAVITT Veterans .....;.,, . A. O. ELLETT tnsane .OVVEN P. HENINGER, M.D. Water Resources ED. H. WATSON ''Insurance.,; .OSCAR W. CARLSON Welfare ...... PHILO T. FARNSWORTH Labor E; M. ROYLE Workmen's Compensation."J..... H. FRED EGAN VERMONT Nickname.The Green Mountain State Bird. : Hermit Thrush Motto. .Freedomand Unity Sdng ;...... Hail, Vermont Flower. /. Red Glover Enteredthq0nidn . .. .March.4,1791 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE : VERMONT DEVELOPMENT SERVICE COMMISSION •-..•• ... .V. • •--.,••• Legislative Reference Bureau Chairman: SAMUEL OGDEN State Library Director: ROBERT C. LANE Legal Status: Act of 1947,. No. 110. MRS. SKIRLEY CHADWICK ' _ Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1948: Assistant Librarian $200,000 V Services: The Bureau collects material of ' interest to legislators and keeps a complete Activities: The Commission encourages card index of bills. It conducts inquiries and promotes the development of the agri lipOn request, and prepares a biennial cultural, industrial, and recreational re "Preliminary Legislative Manual." It as sources of the state and cooperates to this sists the legislative draftsmen, and, at the end with other state agencies, particularly end of each session, edits and publishes a with the Industrial Agricultural Products cumulative index of the laws passed arid Commission. With the consent of the a table of changes made in existihg legis governor, the Commission appoints a lation. . ^ i director who is authorized to assemble all pertinent information regarding this re sources and opportunities of the state. The Commission also is empowered to employ a research engineer and a publicity direc tor, and to undertake siich studies, plans, STATE MANUAL and publications as will effectuate the pur pose of the agency. ; Vermont Legislative Directory Issued by the. Secretary of State : STATISTICS Published biennially Area (square miles)...... 9,564 Total Pages: 680 Current Volume: 1947 Rank in Nation..; ^.. 42nd Population (estimated 1945).;.... 310,352 Size in inches: 4>^x 6 RankinNation (1945)...... 45th The Vermont Legislative Directory contains Density per square mile (1940)...... 38.7 Number of Representatives in Congress...... 1 a substantially complete directory of the Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 executive, legislative, and judicial depart Total Revenue .. $23,333,139 ments of the state government. It includes Total Expenditures...... $23,445,894 a list of county and federal court and reve State University.....; University of Vermont nue oJSicers in the state. The Directory con- and State Agricultural College Site...... ;...... Burlington • tains valuable miscellaneous material con Capital City...... Montpclier cerning the state government, a large Population (1940). .8,006 amount of biographical materigd of state Rank in State...... ;....;...... 6th Largest City. ; .Burlington and federal officers, and descriptive mate Population (1940)...... : 27,686 rial on each state department. Thh Direc Number of Cities over 10,000 Population.. .3 tory is especially well classified. Number of Counties ,...... t4 594 x-i.,«. .•N:/" . VERMONT ^: 595 W:^'''------'-'-:^^^^^^^^ -^'•'' OFFICERS.'..' :.!;{ '^^^^^^^^' Governor, ERNEST W. GIBSON f--f-''^^^^^^^^^M''••"" LieutenantGovernor. .LEE'E. EMERSON ^^^^^KB^^^P^ ?/?'iv'4^^^^^^^^^S '- • Secretary of State. . RAWSON .C. MYRICK .^^^^^^^^^^^ AttorrieyGeneral.,.CLIFTON G. PARKER """ . State Treasurer...'... .LEV'I R. KELLEY MpM^^^^^^^^^mri^'^'-- State Auditor DAVID V. ANDERSON •j;;-''i ' •' VERMONT,:...-. ^•*^' • SUPREME COURT : . Chief Justice... .SHERMAN R; MOULTON Four Associate Justices Term.,...... '....'.... j.TWo years Elected by legislature ; SENATOR JOHN A. M. HiNSMAN ' , ., ., ' . GOVERNOR ChainnanoftheCk)mmuoionon LEGISLATURE ' ERNEST W. GIBSON Interatate Cooperauon xjxjvj^s'x-'i » ^ ^-/xv*.^ Presidentiofthe Senate. ., .LEE E: EMERSON President Pro Tern Speaker of the House WINSTON L. PROUTY ofthe Senate..., .... CARROLL L. COBURN Secretary of the Senate.. '. WILLSIE E. BRISBIN Clerk ofthe House...... HAROLD J. ARTHUR -Senators Representatives.. . Term . . - Regular Session D.. 3 D. 24 Senate... 2 years Wednesday after first Monday in January, R , 27 Ri....."..; .219 : House.. .2 years' biennially in odd years. Length: no consti- Total,. 30 Others...... 3 «' tutional limit. Total.. 246 ^ ' - •• COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members ..Senate Members House Members CLIFTON G. PARKER JOHN A. M. HINSMAN; Chairman PAUL A. CHASE LEVI R. KELLEY. ALLEN M. FLETCHER, JR. WILLIAM T. SCHWARZ MuRDOCK A.CAMPBELL WILLIAM L; HA'MMOND ' HERBERT W. WARDEN, JR. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... MURDOCK A- CAMPBEL^ Library. (Archives Advertising. .HAROLD H. CHApwack •arid" History, Law, State)...... H. J. CONANT, Aeronautics...... EDUARD KNAPP. •Liquor Control (Vacancy) Agriculture...... -.. .STANLEY JUDD Mines..'... ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS Audit...... ;...... DAVID V. ANDERSON Motor Vehicles. H. ELMER MARSH Banking.,.;;...... >... CHARLES E. BURNS Old Age.Assistance.. .ARTJHUR SIMPSON Budget. ..'..,.'. ... .ERNEST W. GIBSON Parks...:. ./•. 7...... PERRY H. MERRILL Clairps...... DAVID V..ANDERSON Parole .'... .^ ...... ERNEST W. GIBSON Comptroller.....'...... ;LEVI R. KELLEY Personnel: ERNEST W. GIBSON Corporations. .^...... -...... RAWSON C. MYRicat 'Planning':.; ... .ROBERT C, LANE Corrections.. V...... ;. .TIMOTHY C, DXLE Police...;. ;...... MERRITT A. EDSON Education. .RALPH E. NOBLE Printing'...... FRANK FREE Employment Service. . E. REYNOLD JOHNSON Public Utilities a'nd Railroads PAUL A. CHASE Equalizationof Assessments. .GEORGE H. AMIDON Purchasing....'. .FRANK FREE Fire Marshal .CHARLE^E^ BIURNS Securities :. CHARLES E. BURNS Fish and Game. .•...... GEORGE .WM. DAVIS Taxation. .GEORGE H. AMIDON Forestry...... PERRY H, MERRILL Unemployment Compensation.... HENRY MILNE Geology."... ; ELBRIDGE C. JACOBS University...... "....,.... .JOHN S. MILLIS Health...... ;...... R. B. AIKEN, M.D. Veterans ALEXANDER J. SMITH Highways...... ;... .IIUBERT E. SARGENT Water Resources...... PAUL A. CHASE and Insane.....;.,...... TIMOTHY C. DALE •» ROBERT G. LANE Insurance ... .• ...... CHARiis E. Bin« "^ VIRGINIA Nickname ..'....•.. The Old Dominion Bird...... > .-.--.^i ... None Motto. .SicSemper Tyrannis Song Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (Thus Ever to Tyrants) Entered the Union June 25, 1788 Flower Dogwood LEGISLATLVE REFERENCE VIRGINIA STATE SERVICE PLANNING BOARD Division of Statutory Research and Drafting Director: RAYMOND V. LONG H© Legal Basis: Chap. 82, as amended, Acts of .\ CASSIUS M. CHICHESTER, Director Assembly of 1938 v Funds Available July 1, 1947-June 30, 1948: Services: Indexes, lists, and digests of ma $50,480 terial are prepared. A file, is kept of all bills, committee, reports, and documents. Activities: The Virginia State Planning Research is conducted, bills are drafted, Board, in cooperation 'with the existing. and advice given as to the constitutionality administrative state agencies, is,,charged or probable legal effect of proposed legisla with the responsibility for developing state tion, upion request of the governor or of plans for postwar reconstruction and de any member of the General Assembly. velopment.. Localities are organizing Cit »Oi) • izens' Postwar Employment Committees; these committees are designed to coordi nate the various local groups and interests concerned with returning veterans and war workers. Local planning commissions, en couraged by the State Planning Board, are . engaged in developing local plans for post war reconstruction and development. ...STATE MANUAL ~ The Report of the Secretary oj the . STATISTICS . Commonwealth of Virginia Area (square miles)...... 39,899 Issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth Rank in Nation.,...... ;...... 33rd Population (estimated 1945)... , ...... 3,079,706 -Ws, Published annually ' Rank in Nation (1945) •'...... 14th Total Pages: 244 Current Volume: 1945-46" ' Density per square mile (1940)...... 67.1 Size in Inches: 6x9 Number of Representatives in Congress...... 9 The'-Report of the Secretary of the Common' Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 wealth to. the Governor and General. Assembly Totalkevenue. ; . ,5182,415,874 contains a comple^fe directory of the exec Total Expenditures.... i.....,. .$172,561 i204 utive, legislative, and judicial departments State University...— ... University of Virginia of the state. There is also a roster of county Site ...... Charlottesville and city officials of the state. The Report Capital City...... Richmond includes numerous matters of special con Population (1940). ..-. :. .193,042 Rankin State. .;. •. .,1st •V i cern to the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth including the proclama Largest City. .Richmond tions of the Governor, a list of registered Population (1940)...... 193,042 r.- trade marks and labels, and a list of the Number of Cities over 10,000 Population..... 15 Governors of Virginia. There is an index. Number of Counties...... ',.'.. .100 596 VIRGINIA 597 OFFICERS Governor. WILLI.\M M. TUCK Lieutenant Governor ...... L. PRESTON COLLINS Secretary of the Commonwealth ...... MRS. THELMA Y. GORDON Attorney General.HARVEY B.APPERSON State Treasurer JESSE W. DILLON Auditor of Public Accounts • • • J. GORDON BENNETT Comptroller.,...... HENRYG. GILMER VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS President...... THENRY W. -HOLT Six Associate Justices Term. ;..... Twelve years HON. C. H. MORRISSETT Chosen by joint vote of both houses of Chairman of the Coiuminion General Assembly GOVERNOR • on Interstate Cooperation WILLIAM M. TUCK LEGISLATURE President of the Senate...... L. PRESTON COLLINS Cle;-kpfthe Senate E. R. COMBS President Pro Tem Spczifeer of the House. G. ALVIN MASSENBURG of the Senate...... ROBERT O.NORRIS, JR. Clerk of thqHouse ...... E. GRIFFITH DODSON Z/ Senators Representatives • Term Regular Session D...... ;.37 D.. '....94 Senate... 4 years Second Wednesday in January, biennially 'R...... 3 R...... 6 House.. .2 years in even years. Lengthij^P days. (Maybe Total. . . 40 Total...... 100 extended up to 30 daj^jl>y a/^ vote of members of each house.) ,. COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Adnunistrative Members Senate Members House Members G. H. MORRISSETT,' Chairman MAriLAND H. BUSXARD GEORGE M. WARREN HARVEY B. APPERSON L, M. ROBINETTE SHIRLEY T. HOLLAND C. F. JoYNER, JR. W, STUART MOFFETT RALPH L. LINCOLN RAYMOND V. LONG ROBERT O. NORRIS, JR. J. MAYNARD MAG RUDER ARTHUR W. JAMES BURGESS E. NELSON R. C. STOKES Ex-officio Honorary Member: THE Go'VERNOK ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General; ..-. .S. GARDNER WALLER Library (Archives ^^ Advertising...... ;. \-...... WM. A". WRIGHT and History)...... W. J; VAN SCHREEVEN Aeronautics...... ALLAN C.PERKINSON Library (Law)^ .LLOYD M. RICHARDS Agriculture...... L.M. WALKER, JR. Library (State) ...... RANDOLPH W, CHURCH Aiidit....; i ..J. GORDON BENNETT Liquor Control.. •... .HUNTER MILLER Banking...... '. .. .M.R. MORGAN Mines.....:...... CREED P, KELLY Budget...... J. H. BRADFORD Motor Vehicles... . , . .C. F. JOYNER, JR. Claims. .HENRY G1 GILMER. Old Age Assistance...... ARTHUR VV. JAMES Comptroller...;:..: HENRY G. GILMER Parks '...... ;.... .RANDOLPH ODELL Conservation. . .W'ILLIAM A. WRIGHT Parole.....:'...... RICHARD W. GOPELAND >;"5«>, Corporations.'...... H. LESTER HOOKER Personnel...... :. J. H. BRADFORD Corrections...... ,_RICE M. YOUELL Planning. RAYMOND V. LONG Education! .G..TYLER MILLER. Police,...... ;.. C W. WOODSON, JR. Employment Service FRANK A. CAYEDO Port Authority H. V. C. WADE Equalization of Assessments.. G. H. MORRISSETT Printing and Purchasing , A. B. GATHRIGHT Fire^Marshal... JAS. M. HAYES, JR. Public Assistance...... ARTHUR W.JAMES Fish and Game 'I. T. QUINN Public Utilities and Railroads. .. .H. L. HOOKER Forestry .GEORGE W. DEAN Securities '.WILLIAM C. KING Geology ..!....;.... ARITHUR BEVAN Taxation. C H. MORRISSETT Health...... L. J. ROPER, M.D. •UnemploymentCompensation. J. Q. RHODES,JR. Highways...... JAMES A.) ANDERSON Veterans ...... NELSON F. RICHARDS Insane ...... JOSEPH E. BARRETT, ^M.D. Water Resources...... DONALD S. WALLACE Insurance,...... ; .GEORGE/A. BOWLES Welfare... ARTHUR W. JAMES Labor. } .JOHN HOPKIN&HALL, JR Workmen's Comfjensation... W. H. NICKELS, JR. •f WASHINGTON Nickname ...... The Evergreen State Bird (unofficial).... Willow Goldfinch Motto...... Alki (By and By) Songi ...... Washington Beloved ••.'••• '••,•*. Flower Western Rhododendron Entered the Union November 11,1889 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE DIVISION OF PROGRESS AND SERVICE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT OF Washington State Library DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT CARMA R. ZIMMERMAN, Librarian Director: ARTHUR GARTON Services: Both the State Library and the Legal Staitus: Legislative Board established 1945 State Law Library undertake legislative Funds Availaible April 1,1947-March 31, 1949: . research upon request. A file of bills in^ $145,000 troduced is kept. The attorney general . Activities: Assumed all the powers and employs two assistants to draft bills. duties of the abolished State Planning Council and the Progress Cdiiimission which conducted tourist and, to some ex tent,: industrial advertising. Activities of the Division have been sus pended as a result of the failure of the 1947 legislature to appropriate funds for. its operations. The Department of Conserva- ,tion and Development was continued with the appropriation indicated above. STATE MANUAL m Washington State Government STATISTICS Total Pages: 103 . Current Volume: 1946 Area (square miles)...... 69,127 Size in inches: S^x 1031^ Rank in Nation...... :,^_^^^..„,,^ . i9th Population (estimated 1945) 2,0,88,574 Washington State Government presents a Rank in Nation (1945).... .7...... \ .24th comprehensive picture of the organization Density per square mile (1940)...... 25.9 Number of Representatives in Congress. . ; ... .6 and functions of all of the departments of Fiscal Year October 1, 1944-September 30, 1*946 the state government. A valuable and un Total Revenue $498,032,365 usual feature is the. use of detailed charts ; Total Expenditures...... $448,835,071 showing the organization and function of State University ! University of Washington Site...... /Seattle each department. It is well illustrated Capital City .Olympia with statistical material and ha:s an ade ; Population (1940)... . 13,254 • quate index. Unfortunately, personnel is Rank in State 11th not named since the book is not intended Largest City. .Seattle Population (1940)...... 368,302 as a publication to be revised from year Number of Cities over 10,000 Population 14 to year. Number of Counties...; .39 598 •'^'.K:- 'SS». . WASHINGTON 599 OFFICERS. Gtivemor...... MON G. WALLGREN i Lieutenant Goviernor. VICTOR A. MEYERS Secretary of State...... (Vacancy) Attorney General .SMITH TROY State Treasurer.... RUSSELL H. FLUENT. I State Auditor .CLIFF YELLE WASHINGTON SUPREME COURT Chief Justice. . .. JOSEPH A. MALLERY Eight Associate Judges Term Six years Elected by popular vote HON. WnxiAU D. SHANNON GOVERNOR Qiairman of the Comniittee MON C. WALLOREN • on Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate . VICTOR A. MEYERS Secretary of the Senate, ...... A. J. SHARKEY President Pro Tem Speaker of the House.. .HERBERT M. HAMBLEN of the Senate. VICTOR ZEDNICK Clerk of the House.... S. R. HOLCOMB Senators Representatives Term Regular Session- D... .23 D...... :..28 Senate.. .4years Second Monday in January, biennially'^in R; .... .23 R ...... 71 House.. ,2years' odd years. Length: 60 days. ' Total...... ;46 Total. ;..... 99 COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Members •• WILLIAM D; SHANNON, CAfliVman HOWARD ROUP THOMAS H. BIENZ TED.F. SCHROEDER GEORGE KINNEAR HARRY WALL Ex-officio.MemberrHzKBEKT M. HAMBLEN, Chairman State Legislative Council Secretarj/: CHARVES E.joHKS ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... ENSLEY M. LLEWELLYN Labor...... EARL N. ANDERSON Advertising...... ;.. .ART GARTON Library (Archives) .JACK BALLEW Aeronautics JOSEPH P. ADAMS Library (Law)...... :... .•. MARK H. WIGHT Agriculture...... FRED J. MARTIN Library (State and History) CARMA R. ZIMMERMAN Audit CLIFF YELLE . Liquor Control...... LUTHER E. GREGORY Banking.....::.../...... WALTER JOHNSON Mines...... :...;...... —.SnrifcDON L. GLO\^R Budget;...... JOSEPH J. PACHOT Motor Vehicles. ./.HARRY C. HUSE Claims ...... !...... CLIFF YELLE Old Age Assistance KATHRYN E. MALSTROM Conservation ARTHUR GARTON Parks .... .HARRY T. MARTIN Corporations. .,.; ;.... (Vacancy) . Parole... .JOHN J. QUINE Corrections. , .JACKBALLEW Police H. W. ALGEO Education.,...... MRS. PEARL A. WANAMAKER- Printing...... ; K. EINAR CARLSON Employment Service...,...... A. F. HARDY Public Assistance KATHRYN E. MALSTROM Equalization of Assessments... H. H. HENNEFORD Public Utilities and Railroads... .PAUL REVELLE Financial Control. JACK BALLEW Public Works ; .ANDREW J. ZIMMERMAN Fire Marshal. WILLIAM A. SULLIVAN Purchasing...... FRANK A. POKSV/IN Fish and Game,...... DON W. CLARKE Securities. .RUSSELL H, FLUENT Forestry... T. S.. GOODYEAR Taxation...... H. H. HENNEFORD Geology...... , SHELDON. S. GLOVER Unemployment Compensation. . .JOHN D. DAVIS Health...... :.... .ARTHUR L. RINGLE, M.D. Veterans .... .JOHN L. SLAVENBURG Highways...... CLARENCE SHAIN Water Resources...... , ...... RODNEY RYKER Insane...... ,..;...,... .JACK BALLEW Welfare. .. .KATHRYN E. MAUTROM Insurance...,....; .W..A. SULLIVAN Workmen's Compensation.. .EARL N. ANDERSON WEST VIRGINIA Nickname. .The Panhandle State Bird (unofficial).;... Tufted Titmouse Motto.... •. Afontani Semper Libert Song (unofficial). . . West Virginia Hills (Mountaineers Are Always Freemen) Entered the Union.... .June 20,1863 Flower Big Rhododendron LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE I^LANNIlSfG AND: SERVICE^ DEVELOPMENT AGENCY Legislative Reference Section Postwar plans for West Virginia were Clerk of State Senate initiated by the State Planning Board early 1^3^943 when it set up committees on in Services:'No legislative reference and bUl dustrial development, proper program drafting service has been officially organ ming" of public work's, planning for the ized in West Virginia, and no specific ap building needs of state-controlled public propriation has been made for the service. institutions, postwar erhployrftent, postwar . jf Howard Myers, Glerk of the State agriculture, resettlement of abandoned Senate, has been very helpful in furnishing farms and other lands, recreation, surplus information to the Council of State Gov war material, and veterans'affairs. ernments. No appropriation was made for the State •• A Planning Board for the years 1947-48 and its activities have been terminated. STATE MANUAL * West Virginia Blue Book • STATISTICS / ' Compiled by J. HOWARD MYERS Area (square miles)....:...... •...... 24,282 Published annually Rank in Nation ...... 40th Population (estimated 1945). ... '. .... A,724,617 Total Pages: 832 Current Volume: 1946 Rankin Nation (1945)...'...... 31st Size in inches: 6x9 • Density per square mile (l940).. . .\ 7.9.0 The West Virginia Blue Book contains a Number of Representatives in Congress. . .6' complete directory of the executive, legis Fiscal Ye&r July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946 lative, and judicial departments of. the state Total Revenue.. . . . ;...;.. .575,407,415 government. There are registers of state, Total Expenditures...... ,..-. .570,406,243 county, municipal, and federal officials, State University...... University of West Virginia much^ historical and miscellaneous infor Site:..;...... ~... Morgantovvn mation, and numerous tables of statistics Capital City. ... Charleston covering the various departments of thj3 . Population (1.940). .,. ..., . 67,914 state government. Featured in the latest Rankin State ...... 2nd edition are directories of war agency staffs, Largest City. . . .Huntington rationing boards located in the state, coun Population (1940) T.'..,...... 78,836 ty draft boards, and honor lists of World Number of Cities over 10,000 Population. v,,:_._...:J 2 War II casualties for West Virginia. Number of Counties...... 55 r' 600 KisS^ A WEST VIRGINIA 601 OFFICERS Governor..... CLARENCE W. MEADOWS Lieutenant Governor..,,.,..;. .None Secretary of State. .WILLIAM S. O'BRIEN Attorney General. .. . .IRA J. PARTLOW State Treasurer.. .RICHARD E. TALBOTT State Auditor EDGAR B. SIMS WEST VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS • , . -. •. • • , • \. President...... , .FRED L! Fox \|fe^. Four Associate Judges Term; Twelve years •KSR, {: & HON. CARL M. FRASURE Elected by popular vote ^ -^, Chairman of the Commission on. ;_ *^°\^.?'*w'* ^- Interstate Cooperation CLARENCE W. MEADOWS V . "LEGISLATURE • President of the Senate ARNOLD M. VICKERS jPresident Pro Tern v...... DON EDDY Speaker of the House. JOHN E. AMOS Clerk of the Senate...... J. HOWARD MYERS Clerk of the House. J. R. ALIFF 4- Senators Representatives Term Regular Session sd...... 20 D. 56- Senate. ..4 years Second Wednesday in January, biennially R...... 12 R.. .38 House.. .2years in odd years. Length:.60 days. Total 32 Total;. .94 COMMISSION ON IN'FERSTATE COOPERATION ^v. Administrative Members Senate Members House Members . CARL M. FRASURE, Chairman GLENN JACKSON ROBERT E, ROACH C. H. KOONTZ WALTER S. BURGESS FRANK A. KNIGHT IRA J. P.ARTLOw C, GLENN TAYLOR GEORGE C. TRUMBO E.L. WORTHINGTON W. BROUOHTON JOHNSTON WULIAMC. PIPER DENZIL L. GAINER HARDIN R. HARMER CECIL H. UNDERWOOD Ex-officio Horiorary Menibers: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SP^-.KER OF HOUS^ ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General CHARLES R. FOX Labor...... CHARLESSATTLER Advertising . VV. G. HANDLAN Library (Law) J. ARTHUR JACKSON Aeronautics ...... HUBERT H. STARK Library (State) ...... , MRS. R.. B. Cock Agriculture...... BLAINE MCLAUGHLIN Liquor Control. ... A. K. CANTERBURY Audit...... EDGAR B. SIMS Mines...... '. ;. ARCH J. ALEXANDER Banking. • • • • A. W. LOCKE Motor Vehicles.. . . ^..^,... DON MCCLAUGHERTY Budget ,; .DENZIL L. GAINER Old Age Assistance...... ROBERT F. ROTH Claim^ .-. ..*...... FRED L. FOX P'arks..,...... WATT POWELL Conservation. JACK K. SHIPMAN Parole./. .ROBERT M. KNOT^ Corporations; C. H. KOONTZ . Police.". ...;.. .0...... :...... W. E. BURCHETT. Corrections. .JOSEPH Z. TERRELL Printing...... :DON F. FREEMAN Education...... ;...,..... W. W. TRENT Public Assistance..'...... '. .ROBERT F. ROTH Employment Service...... CABELL S. DAVIS Piiblic. Utilities and Railroads... .C. E. NETHKEN Equalization of Assessrnents . . . . JOHN HULL Purchasing...... '...... ;.... CARL RIGGS Fire Marshal ROBERT H. KIDD Relief... . ROBERT F. ROTH Forestry...... ROBERT O. BOWEN' Securities...' WILLIAMS. O'BREEN Game and Fish...... ;.. W. R. DEGARMO Taxation...... CLARENCE H. KOONTZ Geology...... !'...... • PAUL H. PRICE Unemployment Comf)ensation.. CABELL S. DAVIS Health :... .NEWM.\N H. DYER, M.D. ^Veterans..,...... T..H. MCGOVRAN Highways. E. L. WORTHINGTON Walter Resources...... JACKSHIPMAN Insane...... ,...... JOSEPH Z. TERRELL Welfare ROBERT F. ROTH Insurance?.... .^...... ROBERT S. BUTLER Workmen's Compensation;.. .E. Nickname.. The Badger State Bird (unofficial). .Robin Motto...... Forward Song. ,..;..'..... (Several unofficial) Flower (unofficial). ..Violet Entered the Union. .... May 29,1848 LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE - WISCONSIN STATE . ' • SERVICES 'V PLANNING BOARD Legislative Reference Library ^ • Secretary and Executive Officer: M. W. TORKEL- Free Library Commission l "^ •"•-'•' 1 Legal Basis: 27.20, Stat.; Chap. 165, Laws, 1935 HOWARD F. OHM. Chief V Vp^^^^ Available June 30, 1947^uly: 1. 1948: Office of the Revisor of Statutes ' i $40,000 E, E. BRQSSARD, Revisor v4c/iwz7i«; During the past year the Board o . rru t -1 '^' T> > T • has assisted localerovernihe; bodies in mak- Ser vices: Ihe Legislative Reference Li- . v • ° :.«:.JMI , ' ., • I. , ,. Lt ing comprehensive county, city, and village brary furnishes complete^nd reliable sery. pj|^^ ^^^ ^^^ ordinances; in setting up ice. I conducts research, it drafts bills it ^^^^^^ ^^^^s program; also has assisted in compil^material^nd places It at^hedi^^ ^^^^^^3 relating to housing,, parks, .and posal of the lawmakers and it edits the p^^kways, the development of recreational WiscmstnBlue Book. The pffice of the Re- facilities of various kinds, and flood control, visor of_Statutes compiles and publishes j^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^j^^.^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^. Wisconsm^statutes. quisition of land for additional state parks, --;_,._, vrATvTTTAT "• ' ^nd 2i iakc shorc drive, inxaccordance STATE MANUAL . - with legislative directiv^: \ ^ ' : Wisconsin'Blue Book .- • ' \ \ Edited by the Legislative Reference Library / Published biennially STATISTICS Total Pages: 704 • . Current Volume: 1946 Area.(squarc miles);...... :..;...... ;56,066 -% Sizemmches: 5Kx8K ,, ,. ,. »• oc^u" Rank m Nation;... ..25th T\it Wisconsin Blue 5op^ contains a com- Population (estiniated 1945)...:.. .3,137,587 plete directory of the executive, legislative', Rank in Nation (1945). ... iSth and judicial departments of the state' gov- Density per square mile (1940) 57.3 ernment. Activities of administrative Number of Representatives in Congress...... 10 boards and divisions are described in detail. Fiscal Year July 1,1945-June 30, 1946 and there is a section devoted to federal Total Revenue ...... 81111,150,426 officials in the state. Includedis consider- Total State Expenditures....,... $102,303,624 able miscellaneous information on the State University...... University of Wisconsin:^ state, such as county officers, principal Site...... '.'...... ';.. ..Madison Wisconsin publications, statev/ide associa- Capital City...... Madison tions of Wisconsin, and election statistics. Population (1940).;...... 67,447 The current edition is dedicated to the Rank in State...... 2nd Wisconsin men and women who served in Largest City...; ...... Milwaukee the armed forces, and features a descrip- Population (1940) .T. 587,472 tive account of the state's activities in the Number of Cities over 10,000 Population 30 rehabilitation of returned veterans. Number of Counties.; ; .7:1 ;-;;.-••'' • - ' •••" >. .602 • ;•'-..,•• •. •• •>".••/ "^ ^'WISCONSIN 603 •A «>• • OFFICER^ ' Governor.. it;;. .OSCAR A1 RENNEBOHM Lieutenant Qovernor...... (Vacancy) , Secretary of 3tateb . FRED R. ZIMMERMAN Attorney General^ ... .JOHN E. MARTIN State Treasilrer..."...... (Vacancy) State AuditOT ,i . ...;.. .J. JAY KELIHER WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT Chief Justice.. ;MARViN B^ROSENBERRY • Six Associate. Justices Term. L-..Ten years GOVERNOR SENATOR WARREN P. KNOVVLES Elected by popular vqte Chairman of the Commission on OSCAR A. RENNEBOHM •'Interstate Cooperation LEGISLATURE 'President of the Senate. . . . (Vacancy) President Pro. Tern Speaker of the Assembly. , DONALD C. MCDOWELL of the Senate. . .. :. .FRANK E. PANZER Chief Clerk of Senate .THOMAS DONAHUE Clerk of the Assembly ..,...... ARTHURL. MAY . Senators Representatives Term Regular Session D...... 5 D...... : 12 Senate... 4 years Second Wednesday in January, biennially R...... 27 R..... 88 Holise;. .2 years in odd years. Length; no constitutional^ Prog..;.... .1 Total...... 100 limit. Total. . 33 COMMISSION ON INTERSTATE COOPERATION Administrative Members Senate Members Assembly Members FRANK N. GRAKS&,.Secretary WARREN P. KNOWLES, Chairman ALFRED R. LUDVIGSEN HOWARD F. OHM. FOSTER B. PORTER SELMER VV. GUNDERSON M. W. TORKELSON ERNEST A. HEDEN GEORGE J. WOERTH Ex-qfficio Honorary Afember: THE GoyzRtioR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General .JOHN F- MULLEN Library (Archives) ....,'.-.... .CLIFFORD L. LORD Advertising...... ; .J. H. H, ALEXANDER Library (Law). . .,...... GILSON G. GLASIER Aeronautics ...... T. K. JORDAN Library (State)...'...... ,C. B. LESTER Agriculture...... !...... KIILTON H. BUTTON Liquor Control,...... JOHN. W. ROACH. Audit.. ..i^^^..... J. JAY KELIHER Mines.. E. F. BEAN Banking. < * GUERDON F. MATTHEWS Motor Vehicles...... '. B. L. MARCUS Budget and .Afccourfts ...... :'-.... .E. C. GEESSEL Old Age Assistance...... GEORGE M. KEFTH Claiiris .J.JAY KEUHER Parks...... X .-rr ..... •.. .C. L. HARRINGTON Conservation. ' (Vacancy) Parole , .;..V... .A; F. RUTH Ckirporations..;..... HERBERT E. WHIPPLE Personnel. .A. J. OPSTEDAL Corrections ...... ^ ... PAUL YOUNT Planning. M. W. TORKELSON Education. . . .;...... , JOHN CALLAHAN Police ; HOMER G. BELL Employment Service...... HARRY LIPPART Printing.!..' ...... , .DON M. LEICHT - Equalization of Assessments...... A. E. WEONER Public Assistance...... GEORGE M. KEITH^^^, Fire Marshal .> MORVIN DUEL Public.Utilities and Railroads. L. H. ASHLEY Fish. EDWARD SCHNEBERGER Purchasing . .;.;...... F. X, RITOER . Forestry C. L. HARRINGTON Securities...... "..'.. EDWARD J. SAMP Game -....'...... WILXIAM F. GRIMMER Taxation A. E. WEONER Geology...... —...... E. F. BEAN Unemployment Compensation .P. A.RAUSHENBUSH Health.,...... ' CARL N. NEUPERT, M.D. Veterans. LEO B. LEVENICK Highways. JAMES R LAW Vocational Education...... C. L. GREIBER , Insane...... W.J. UHBEN, M.D. Water Resources ...... H. V. TENNANT Insurance. ....•...... ;.. .MORVIN DUEL Welfare .A. W. BAYLEY Labor..', VOYTA WRABETZ Workmen's Compensation...... H. A. NELSON f WYOMmG Nickname...... -.. The Equality State \ Bird;...... : .Meadowlark Motto...... r. Cedant Arma Togae Song. ;...... (Two unofficial) (Let Arms Yield ta. the Gown) • '. • ^ • • •. ' Flower.. . Indian Paint Brush Entered the Union..... July 10,1890 ^ LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE STATE PLANNING AND SERVICE WATER^edNSERVATION BOARD Wyoming State Libriary President: Grovernor LESTER C. HUNT . MARV A. MCGRATH, Librarian " Engineer-Secretary: EARL LLOYD Services: Before each session, the Libra Legial Basis: Act of Legislature, 1939 Appropriation: For two years ending March 31, rian inquires from each legislator the sub 1949—State Planning and Water Conservation jects in which he is especially interested. Board, Administrative Contingent, $6,500; Coop)-; This mateirial is compiled and prepared for eratiye Contingent, $45,000. • / reference use. A file is kept of bills ^and laws from other states. Lawyers are em- Activities: Tht primary function of the . ployeid by thji^ legi||kire for biil drafting. Board is to further the development and J conservation of the waters of the state. The Board cooperates with the U.S. Geological, Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Reclama tion in studies and investigations of the water resources of Wyoming and their uti lization. It promotes development of recla-r- mation projects in the state. ^ STATISTICS STATE MANUAL Area (square miles)...... 97,914 Official Directory of Wyoming Rank in Nation...... (,... .. ,...... 8th Population (estimated 1945). ;.. .,'246,766 , Issued by the Secretary of State Rank in Nation (1945) .47th Deijsity per square inile (1940). X...'.... .2.6 •Published biennially Number of Representatives in Congress i...... 1 -•'•'. 1945 Fiscal Year October 1,1945—September 30,1946 Total Pages: .318 Current Volume: Total Revenue...... $21,320,293 Size in inches: 4 X 6 "Total Expenditures..,...... $17,075,915 The Official Directory of Wyorriing containStats e University...... University of Wyoming Site ; Laramie a complete roster of all officials of the exec- Capital City.; r^...... Cheyenne \itive, legislative, and judicial branches bf Population (1940) .."i...... 22,474 the state government. Included is a roster Rank in State.,...... 1st of the state boards and commissions. Th6re Largest City ...... Chevennc Population (1940).....,... . 22,474 is a cornplete abstract of votes for the last Number of Cities over.10,000 Population. .1 .. .4 preceding general election. l " Number of Counties...... »...... '. .23 604 %•: WTO MING 605 OFFICERS Gdvcmor...... LEST^IR C. HUNT Lieutenant Governor...... None Secretary of State...... A, G. CRANE • Attorney General... .NORMAN B. GRAY State Auditor EVERETT T. COPENHAVER . State Treasurer...... C. J. ROGERS Superintendent of Public, . Instruction ...... EDNA B. STOLT WYOMING SUPREME COURT Chief Justice...... WM. A. RINER . .Two Associate Justices Terin Eight years ' HON.-, NORMAN B. GRAY Elected by popular vote .GOVERNOR Chairnuua of the Commuiion on LESTER C. HUNT Intergovernmental Cooperation LEGISLATURE President of the Senate, . , . . E. J. ZOBLE President Pro Tem of the Senate. LEELAND GRIEVE Speaker of the Hpuse ;... HOMER OXLEY Secretary of the Senate MRS. BESSIE.E. DAILEY Clerk of the House...... ;. ARTHUF. KLINE Senators Representatives Term > . Regular Session D.. '8 ' D...... 12 Senate..". 4 years Second Tuesday in January, biennially in R,...... 19 R.. ...44 House. .2 years odd years. Length: 40-days. Total 27 Total. . > 56 1 COMMISSION ON I '4RGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION Administrative Members ' Senate Members House Members. LESTER C. HUNT F. W. BARTLING J. VERNE HOFFMAN NoRMAN' B. GRAY, Chairman GEORGE A. GROSS DAVID FOOTE, SR. RODNEY BARRUS GEORGE BURKE M. B. WALKER:- ZAN LEWIS CHAS. B. CHITTIM LOUIS BOSCHETTQ L. C. BISHOP N. V. KXJRTZ J. ROBERT HAMBLIN Ex-officio Honorary Members: THE GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT OF SENATE, SPEAKER OF HOUSE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant Gcner^...... •...... R. L, ESMA.Y ; Library (Law,and State) ....'. .M. A. MCGRATH Advertising. .H. D. ANDERSON Liquor Control EARL WRIGHT Aeronautics .../...... WALTER F. PETERS Mines .HUGH MCLEOD Agriculture .A. D. FAVILLE Motor Vehicles DR: A. G. CRANE Audit. .:....".. EVERETT T. COPENHAVER Old Age Assistance. '. ED ScmniEMAN Banking...... NORRIS E. HARTWELL; Parole...... NORMAN G. BAILLIE Budget...... ';; .LESTER C. HUNT Planning EARL LLOYD Claims. .EVERETT T. COPENHAVER. Police,...... ;... ;W. R. BRADLEY Comptroller...... EVERETT; T. COPENHAVER Printing...... El C. ROTHWELL Conservation... O. O. NATWICK Public Assistance...... ED SCHUNEMAN Corporations ...... DR. A. G. CRANE Public Utilities ;. .EARL BURNS Corrections E. C. ROTHWELL Public Works .CHARLES"MORGAN Education. EDNA B. SVOLT Purchasing. : . .. E. C. ROTHWELL Employment Service .\ ...... ALVAN HARRIS Railroads..!...... '..,... .EARL BURNS Equalization of Assessments...... EARL BURNS Relief.. .'*7\ .... ED SCHUNEMAN; Fish and Game LESTER BAGLEY Securities ...... DR. A. G. CRANE Geology. .'HORACE D. THOMAS Taxation...... t •...... EARL BURNS Health. ':.G. M. ANDERSON, M.D. Unemployment Compensation..... A. W. HARRIS Highways...... }.K. BROMLEY Veterans...... ,..'...... R. L. ESMAY Insane .^ .... E. C. ROTHWELL Vocational Education...... EDNA B. STOLT Insurance...... RODNEY BARRUS' Water Resoilrces...... EARL LLbYD Labor...... !...; .... DAVID B. GILFILLAN Welfare ED SCHUNEMAN Library (Archives and History).M. A. MC^RATH Workmen's Compensation C. J. ROGERS ALASKA Flower (unofficial). . . . Forget-mcrnot Purchased'from Russia by. Song (unofficial).... Alaska, My Alaska T^e Uriited States. .March 30,1867 HISTORY ALASKA DEVELOPMENT BOARD Discovered by Vitus Bering, a Russian Chairman: Ernest Gruening Legal Status: Legislative Act, Chapter 25, 1945 explorer, in 1778, Alaska was purchased Session Laws. from Russia by the United States after Appropriation: $120,000 for biennium, April 1^ William H. Seward, Secretary of State, 1945 to March 31, 1947. No additional appro had persuaded Congress that its acquisi priation was made by Eighteenth Legislature tion was part of the "manifest ^destiny of for biennium, April 1, 1947 to March 31,' 1949. the United States." The territory.remained Activities: The Alaska Development unorganized until 1884 when Congress Board is primarily an industrial promotion passed the Organic Act which created the body, which will seek practical solutions to District of.Alaska.' Development of the postwar employment problems and gen territory began in 1898 when the Gold eral economic development by encourag Rush brought a great: influx of Americans. ing the establishment of new industries and Under the Organic Act of 1912, which also the expansion of existing industry. In ad serves as its constitution^ the. District was dition, the Board also functions as a gen abolished and the present territorial gov eral information bureau. ^ ernment was established. The territory maintains a public school system for the white inhabitants, and the STATISTICS- / Alaskan division of United States Office of Education provides educational facilities Area (square miles)...... 58d(400 for the native population. • " • Popillation (estimated 1940)...... •..... J2,524 After the Japanese attack in 1942, the Delegate to Congress (F. L. Bartlett).. ./. ... .1. expansion of military establishnients was Fiscal data bctober 1, 1944-December^3i, 1946 hastened with emphasis on air bases. The Total Revenue....:.. $10,860,3551 Navy set up a seventeenth naval district in the tetritory with headquarters on the Total Expenditures...... 411,981,163" Aleutians. The completion of the 1,500 University...... , University of Alaska mile Alcari highway in 1943 established Site...... ,. . ./College, Alaska land, comrnunication between the states Capital City...... Juneau and Alaska and promised closer relations" Population (1940)...... 5,729 ih the postwar era. . • "•. • >U. S.' Department of the Interior import .606 •• • / • ALASKA 607 OFFICERS Governor...... ;..!...... ERNEST GRUENING Secretary of State.... .• LLteu'ELLVN M. WILLIAMS Attorney General...... ;...... \ ...... J^. .RALPH J. RIVERS .? : DISTRICT COURT OF ALASKA , ,. '.• Justices : 1st Division...... ;..'..... ;•.!...... GEORGE W, FOLTA -f 2nd Division!...... : ...... ; ... .JOSEPH W. KEHOE 3rd Division . . .ANTHONY J. DIMOND 4th Division...... HARRY E, PRATT Term, ...... ">...... Four years Appointed by th" President of The United States GOVXRNOX X ERNEST GRUENING LEGISLATURE , Pl-es.ident of Senate. . ANDREW NERLAND Speaker of House...... OSCAR GILL President Pro Tern of the Senate.. O. D. COCHRAN ^cretary of iSenate...... JESTA MITCHELL Clerk of House. ., .WILLIAM L. PAUL Senators Representatives Regular Session D. ...^.... .9 D...."...... n Fourth Monday in January in odd years. R..:.:.... .7 R...... 13 Length: 60 days. Total...... 16 Total...... 24 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Aeronautics.-....;...... WILLIAM E. HIXON Library (Law) .RALPH J,- RIVER;S i 'Agriculture...... •. GEORGE W. GASSER Liqiior Control. .OSCAR G- OLSON Audit...... '.,.:..,...... FRANK A. BOYLE Mines.. .B. D. STEWART Banking ...... OSCAR G. OLSON Motor Vehicles !M. P. MULLANEY Corporations...... FRANK A. BOYLE Old Age Assistance...... RUSSELL G. MAYNARD* Education ,...... - ;...... JAMES C. RYAN Parks...... FRANK T. BEEN Employment Service...... ARTHUR A. HEDGES Police...... W. LEONARD SMITH Fish and Game .FRANK W.HYNES Public Assistance ..... RUSSELL G. MAYNARD Forestry. ...•.. .;...... 3. FRANK HEINTZLEMAN Public Works...... vW. LEONARD SMITH Hcailth..: .C. EARL ALBRECHT, M.D. Taxation ,...... : .M. P. MULLANEY Highways...... W. LEONARD SMITH Unemployment Compensation.. .R.'E. SHELDON Insurance .[...... /. ... .FRANK W. BOYLE ^Veterans...... ;...... NORMAN HALEY Labor. HENRY C. BENSON VVelfaxe...... RUSSELL G. MAYNARD Library (Archives)-..,,-.'...... EDWARD KEITHAHN Workmen's Compensation.... .HENRY C.BENSON . HAWAII Nickname. . Paradise of the Pacific Flower...... ?.'. ... : Hibiscus Motto:.. ..UaMauKeEaO KaAina • • - I Ka Pono Song..."...... HawaiiPonoiI (The Growth of the Land is Entered into Union. ...July 9,1898 Perpetuated by Righteousness) LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE The territoriarlegislature, wHich meets, SERVICE biennially, consists of a senate of fifteen members elected, seven or eight at each . : Legislative Reference Bureau .biennial election, for' four years, and a University of Hawaii house of representatives of thirty members NORMAN MELLER, Director elected for two years. Services: The Logislative Reference Serv The territory has a public school system ice maintains a legislative reference library. which includes a university and a normal The Legislative Reference Bureau is a de- school. There are also trade and voca partinent of the University of Hawaii. It tional schools. Attendance is compulsory engages in legislative research work for ter for children frcJm six to. fourteen. English ritorial legislature,' officers, arid agencies. is the language spoken in the schools. It performs general legislative research and bill drafting. HISTORY When discovered by Captain James Cook in 1778, the individual islands were ruled by their own kings; but by 1795, Kamahameha, the "Napoleon of the Paci fic", had established himself as ruler of all • Hawaii. European and American traders and missionaries settled in the islands and STATISTICS in 1893 ended the mpnarchy with the de position of Queen Liliukalani. Later in Area (square miles)...... %.,..... 6,435; the same year a provisional government Population (estimated 1947)...... ,525,477 was set up, pending application for an Number of Representatives in Congress...'. .. .1 nexation to the United States.. Since the request for annexation was not accepted, Fiscal Year July 1, 1946 -June 30, 1947 the Republic of Hawaii was established in Total Revenue.;...... ;.... $62,898,419 1894. The annexation of Hawaii to the Total Expenditures,...--..-.,.....; S65,9.18,890 United States was finally accomplished by State University...... University of Hawaii a Joint Resolution of the Congress, July 7, 1898; the transfer of sovereignty took place Site...... -...... Honolulu on August 12, 1898; "and the Territorial. Capital City.....;...... Honolulu Governrrient of Hawaii was organized Population (1947)... .;:,..:,...... :268,913 under the Organic Act paissed by Congress, Largest City...... , Honolulu April 30, 1900. •; •. Number of Cities over 1Q,000 Population..... ,-2 608 HAWAII 609 OFFICERS, Governor...... ,.. INGRAM M. STAINBACK Secretary'of State. ....;..... OREN E. LONG Attorney General. . ...W. D. ACKERMAN, JR. ' SUPREME COURT OF HAWAII' Chief Justice...... ;...... SAMUEL B. KEMP Two Asspciate Justices Term. . . .'., • ..... , Four years Appointed by the President of The United States GOVERNOR INGRAU I^. STAINBACK LEGISLATURE President of Senate. . ; CLEMENT GOMES Speaker of House...... MANUEL G. PASCHOAL Secretary J " .' Clerkof House...... !...... O. P. SOARES (Clerk of Senate)...... MRS. ELLEN D. SMYTHE Senators Representatives Term ' Regular Session D...... 7 D...... 1 Jf, Senate., .4 years , Third Wednesday in February in odd years. R...... '8 R...... ; .. .15 House.; .2years Length: 60 days, but governor may extend ,v. yTotal...... 15 Total...... 30 . . . for 30 days. ... ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS. AdjVtant General ...... FRED W. MAKINNEY Library (Law^...... MARYH. STEVENS Aeronautics ...... ^.....:ROBERT L. CAMPBELL Library (St^) ;... .MARGARET E. NEWMAN AgricVIture COUN G. LENNOX Liquor Co^ol...... HENRY N. THO.MPSONI Audit .\,...... :.'...... JOSEPH DICKSON , Motor \ynicles ...... (County Treasurers) Banking .. • . • • •• • •• • • • •... WILLMM B. BROWN Old Age Assistance. NEWTON R. HOLCOMB Budget.\. ;....-...... PAUL J. THURSTON Parks...... '...... ,... ;J. E. LYONS Claims . .N...... , PAUL J. THURSTON Parole , ..:.;; ^ . A. J. GioNou.x Conservatiion...; ; .COLIN G. LENNOX Personnel .....*...... ARTHUR A. AKINA, JR. CorporatioAs ...... ;.... .WILLIAM B. BROWN -Planning ROBERT M. BELT Corrections.\ .THOMAS B. VANCE Police ...... AH CHEW LAU^ !?^: Education ; .\ W. HAROLD LQPER Public Assistance ..NEWTON R. HOLCOMB !';- Employment^ervice. .':'>>•..... E. LEIGH STEVENS Public Utilities and ... Equalization of Assessments...... :. .'(Vacancy) ,Railroads ... •...,_,.. .J. H. HUGHES Fire Marshal ...... :... WILLIAM B. BROWN Public Works, . . . '._^^. ROBERT M. BELT Fish and Game.,.. VERNON E. BROCK Purchasings.^^. . .T. . ... GEORGE MCCORRISTON Forestry...;...... ,.. .WILLIAM CROSBY— -Railroads ."...... ;.. JOHN E. PARKS Geology...... :..,...... MAX CAJRSON , Securities . . ;...... WILLL\M B. BROWN Health...... -.. .CHARLES L. WILBAR, M.D. Taxation WILLIAM BORTHWICK Highways...... ;...... ROBERT" M. BELT Unemployment Compensation.... HOWARD WIIG Insane...... MARCUS GUENSBERG, M.D. Veterans...... ; .VINCENT GUNTZER Insurance WILLIAM B. BROWN Water Resources...... FRED QHRT? Labor ...... (Vacancy) Welfare NEWTON R. rfoLCOMB Library (Archives and Histbry).... MAUDE JONES Workmen's Compensation . . .". WM. M. DOUGLAS •Honolulu only» Each county has a lic{uor commission appointed by Governor. 'Each county also has a police commission appointed by Governor. 'Board of wattr supply lor city of Honolulu only. PUERTO RICO Song...... LaBorinquend Became a Territory of The United States... December 10,1898 A LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE PUERTO RICO PLANNING, : SERVICE URBANIZING AND Mrs. Haydec F.San Miguel ZONING BOARD • Executive Secretary Services: In addition to other duties, the Status: Statutory Board, Act of May 12, 1942 ' Executive Secretary of Puerto Rico main tains a file of all bills introduced into the Aciwities: Ths, Board is required to pre Legislature, and a collection of Federal pare a Master Plan ifor the development of and Insular goyernment publications. , Puerto Rico. It may prepare a master plan for any locality, as well. Post-war public works are a part of the Master Plan, STATISTICAL and are intended to fit into the long term Area (square miles) .3,423 development program. In addition, the PopulationX1940)...". .••1,869,255 Board submits each year to the Governor Density per square mile ...... 546.1 and to the legislature a Six-Year Financial Number- of Representatives in Congress... °.... 1 Plan describing and recommending capital Fiscal Year July 1, 1945-June 30, 1946: improv^rhents and current expenses of the Total Revenue.....;.....:..... $84,960,8931; governjnent, with suggestions for the finan ; total Expenditures...... ;....., .$86,897,6901 cing oOuch expenses. The Act establish State University...... University of Puerto Rico ing thefSoard, provides for a Budget Bureau. Site...... '. . .Rio Piedras The Committee on Desigli'of Post-War Capital Gity.. ...'. .Sanju^n Public Works, was set up in 1943^ to pre Population (1940).....;'...... -.. 169,247 pare working plans and specifications for Largest City...... SanJuan projects approved by the Board, and to Number of Cities over 10,000 Population...... 9 guide and supervise the post-war planning 'U.S. Department of the.Interior report of all Insular governmental agencies. I r "*«.• 610 PUERTO RICO 611 OFFICERS ; r Governor.. , . ..:.JESUS T. PINERO Executive Secretary; Mrs. HAYDEE F. SAN MIGUEL Attorney General (Acting) ...... '...... Luis NEGRON FERNANDEZ^ , SUPREME COURT OF PUERTO RICO ' Chief Justice... ;..,... , MARTIN TRAVIESO Four Associate Judges . ' Term...... '...... ;...... Life Appointed by the President of the United States GOVERNOR JESUS T. PINERO LEGISLATURE President of Senate...... LUIS MUNOZ MARIN Secretary of Service... .ILDEFONSO SOLA MORALES President Pro Tem Speakei- of House. ; .. .FRANCISCO M. SUSONI of Senate. /S'AMUEL R QUINONES Clerk of the House...... JOSE BERRIOS BERDECIA Senators Representatives Term Regular Session P . 17 P...... 37 Senate!.. 4 years Second Monday in February of each year. U.R...... 1 U.R...... 1.. House.. ,4 years House Length: Until April 15. S...... 1 L..,,. ;...... 1 Total...... ' 19 • Total-...... ".39 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Adjutant General...... :.... LUIS RAUL ESTEVES Library (Archives andHistory).. . .A. DE HOSTOS Aeronautics JOSE G. BLOISE Library (Law) JoAqyiN L6PEZ CRUZ Agriculture ...... Luis A. IZQUIERDO Library (State) .Luis O'NEIIIL Audit..... :'. RAFAEJ^DEJ. CORDERO Liquor Control..,. RAFAEL SALDANA Banking...... :...... ANTONIO R. HERNANDEZ .Motor Vehicles...... JOSEH.MENDEZ Budget...... ROBERTO DE JESUS TORO Old Age Assistance ...... : CELESTINA ZALDUQNDO Claims. .v.....;... .JOSE BELILLA Parks .MIGUEL A.BARASORDA Conservation. -J. ANTONIO ALVARADO Parole. .Ltns NEGRON FERNANDEZ Corporations...... ;..'. .HAYDEE F.SAN MIGUEL Personnel GUILLERMO NIOAOLIONI Corrections...... J. ANTONIO ALVARADO .Planning .RAFAELPICO~ Education...... MARIANO VILLARONGA Police ...... SALVADOR T Roro Employment Service .ELISEO MELENDEZ Public Assistance .MANUEL A. P£REZ Equalizatnon of Assessments...».. ^.. .J. A. FAR£A Printing MANUEL RUIZ REXACH Fire Marihal...... ^.... .RAUL N. GANDARA Public Utilities and RaiLroads .: . (Vacancy) Fish and jGame...... MIGXJEL MELSNDEZ ORTIZ Public Works...... , .ANGEL SILVA Forestry! ...... ARTHURUPSON Purchasing .ANTONIO VfcENs Rfos Health. i...... JUAN A. PONS, M.D. Securities...... RAFAELBUSGAGLIA Highwaylp...... CECILIO DELGADO Taxation...... MANUEL MARTINEZ CASANOVA • RODULFO DEL VALLE Veterans ...... JAIME SERRA CHAVARRY Insane.. . RAFAEL TROYANO DE LOS Rios Water Resources...... ANTONIO LUCHETTI Insurance; ...... -,.... LORENZO J. NOA Welfare...... CELESTINA ZALDUONDO Labor...... : MANUEL A. PEREZ Workmen's Compensation.... G. ATTILES MOREU VIRGIN ISLANDS *, Formerly- known as Danish West Indies. Purchased from Denmark in 1917. Governor...... WILLIAM H, HASTIE : ; LEGISLATURE There are two Municipar Councils elected by popular franchise, One Municipal Council of seven members enacts all legislation for the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, known as the Municipality of St. Thomas and St. John. Another Municipal Council of nine members enacts all legislation for the island of St. Croix known as the Muni cipality of St. Croix.. These two Councils, sitting in Legislative Assem bly once each year upon call of the Governor, or for special sessions upon call either of the Governor Or of the Municipal Councils, enact legislation applicable to the Virgin Islands as a whole. The Governor has the veto power but the legislative authorities may pass bills by two- thirds majority over his veto whereupon such bills, if not then approved by the Governor, go to the President of the United States. - - K • . GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. HASTIE STATISTICS PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT • . , • -, • . , '. Area—St Croix (square niiles)...... 82 Legal Status: Public Liaw 510, 78th Congress— St. Thomas (square miles)...... 32^;, Chapter 615 2d Session, 1944 St; John-(square miles)...... '...... 19 Appropriation: $10^028,420 to be expended over Population (estimated 1946)—St. Croixs,. .13,000 period of five years beginning in 1945. / - St. Thomas 16,200' Activities: Under this law postwar construction St. John... 800 projects are., under the direction of the Federal Total Revenue for Territory 1946-47..'. .5598,102 Works Admihistrator who'will undertake numerous Capital City...... Charlotte Arnalie, St. Thomas projects for the internal development of the Virgin Islands. , ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Agriculture ...... • ... .BEN R. FOSTER Parks...... " .DONALD S. BOREHAM OSCAR BOUGH ALPHONSE PARALITICCI Audit...... LOUIS SHULTERBRANDT :Police...... ^...... WILLIAM A. TURNER LuDVio CONRAD GEORGE A. MATTHIAS Budget. .. . . , MORRIS F. DE CASTRO Printing. .^ .i^LPHONSE A. DONASTORG HARRY S. TAYLOR, Public Instruction,...... C. FREDERICK DIXON Fire Marshal. ;...... DONALD S. BOREHAM PEARL BYRD LAPXSEN ALPHONSO PARALITICCI . Public Works. .DONALD S. BOREHAM Health...... JOHN S. MOORHE.\D . ALPHONSE PARALITICCI ROY A. ANDUZE Purchasing...... ?...... Louis SHULTERBRANDT;^ • k Hig^hways.,., ,...... DONALD S. BOREHAM LUDVIG CONRAD . ALPHONSE PARALITICCI Ttixation Louis SHULTERBRXNDT Insane...... JOHN S. MOONHEAD :••.': LuDvio CONRAD ROY A. /^DUZE Vocational Education...... C.FREDERICK DIXON Labor.;...... ;.. .ROY W. BORNN PEARL BYRD LAIVSEN Library (Law). CYRIL MICHAEL Water Resources .. DONALD S. BOREHAM ^ Library (State). .MRS. NINA A. C. GORNEIRO ALPHONSO PARALITICCI ^.-. , Liquor Control...... WILLIAM H. HASTIE Welfare.,...... ;...., ROY W. BORNN Motor Vehicles. WILLIAM A. TURNER STANLEY COULTER GEORGE A. MATTHIAS Workmen's Compensation...... REGINALD DAVIS LouK BROVW 612