Governor's controlled contingency fund expenditure files, 1958-1979.

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Alabama. Governor. Governor's controlled contingency fund expenditure files, 1958-1979.

Governor's controlled contingency fund expenditure files, 1958-1979.

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Within five days after the convening of each regular business session of the legislature, the governor is required to transmit to the legislature an appropriation bill which sets forth the budget of the state's financial program for the next fiscal year (Ala. Code Title 55, Section 93 [1958 Recompiled]). This appropriation bill sets out funds to be appropriated to the Governor's Controlled Contingency Fund (No. 118). This fund has no designated disbursement categories or classifications and is expended at the direction of the governor for a variety of purposes (Examiners of Public Accounts Audit Reports for the Governor's Office, 1956-1970). This series consists of records documenting the expenditure of contingency funds by the governor. Typical records in this series include warrants, invoices and bills, copies of letters from the governor authorizing the expenditure of funds, and typed lists detailing expenditures for the month. Examples of funds expenditures include: salaries, hotel bills, travel expenses, car rentals, and official parties and receptions. These records were created during the administrations of Governors James E. Folsom (1955-1959), John Patterson (1959-1963), George Corley Wallace (1963-1967 and 1971-1979), Lurleen Wallace (1967-1968), and Albert P. Brewer (1968-1971).

4 cubic ft. (4 records center cartons).

Alabama Department of Archives and History