Montana Legislative Assembly (27th: 1941) records 1940-1941

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Montana Legislative Assembly (27th: 1941) records 1940-1941

Collection contains records (1940-1941) of the Montana 27th Legislative Assembly including the report of the House Special Committee to Investigate the Conditions Existing at the Montana State Hospital for the Insane at Warm Springs; reports of Joint Committees on Educational Institutions and Affairs and on State Governmental Organization; minutes of House Committee on Mines and Mining; minutes of the Senate Judiciary Committee; House and Senate bills, resolutions, memorials, joint resolutions and memorials, and status sheets; and miscellany.

.8 linear feet of shelf space

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Montana. Legislative Assembly

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Legislative body of the state of Montana; beginning in the 1973/1974 session the body became known as the Legislature. From the description of Montana Legislative Assembly records, 1889-1971. (Montana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70959375 ...

Warm Springs State Hospital

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Prior to 1869, Montana Territory made no special provisions for mental patients, their care generally being left to regular hospitals. The Helena Weekly Herald in a September 19, 1867, article on the county hospital commented on the need for a territorial insane asylum, stating that the county hospital was not the proper place for a "lunatic." Two years later the 6th Territorial Legislative Assembly passed a law authorizing an official territorial insane asylum to be own...