Alabama. Public Service Commission. Annual and biennial reports.
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Annual and biennial reports.
The Public Service Commission functions to supervise and regulate public utilities in Alabama. These reports are primarily annual reports, though from 1915-1919 biennial reports were issued. There are also some gaps, such as those from 1921-1926, 194, 1943-1953, 1966, 1971, and 1992 to the present. The 1881-1919 annual and biennial reports occupy six cubic feet, while the 1920-1991 reports occupy less than two cubic feet. The 1881-1919 reports contain much more information that those from 1920 forward, which are little more than bried statistical summaries. The description therefore concentrates on the earlier and much more informative reports. The pre-1920 reports detailed information that included the rates charged (by railroads until 1915, then by utilities of all kinds), condition of the reailroads, railbed, rolling stock, accidents, the name of the those on the railroad's Board of Directors, the debt and earnings of the railroad, capital stock, and other matters. In 1915 public utilities were added to the responsibilites of the PSC. The annual and biennial reports predating 1920 report primarily on railroads, as the name of the agency did not change until 1915 from Railroad Commission to Public Service Commission (PSC). Many elements about railroads are discussed. Much of the information in the annual and biennial reports came from reports submitted by the railroads themselves, as well as complaints, hearings, decisions, and orders issued first by the Railroad Commission and then by the PSC. Some of the companies detailed include: Alabama Central Railroad Company, Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, Alabama Power Company, the Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad Company, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Birminham Mineral Railroad Company, Central of Georgia Railroad Company, East Alabama Railway, Georgia Pacific Company, Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company, L and N Railroad Company, Mobile and Girard Railroad Company, Mobile and Montgomery Railroad Company, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company, Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad Company, Montgomery and West Point Railroad Company, Montgomery Light and Traction Company, Nashville and Decatur Railroad Company, Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company, Selma and Greensboro Railroad Company, Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, South and North Alabama Railroad Company, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Southern Railway Company, Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad Company, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad Company, Western Railway of Alabama, Western Railroad of Alabama, and others.
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7.4 cubic ft. (8 records center cartons).
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