Subject files, 1921-1990.

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Subject files, 1921-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313868598

Alphabetical subject files touching on a wide variety of topics relating to the board's activities, including 1920s-1930s bank robbery cases, a 1923 history and 1926 investigation report of the board, Hennepin County cases (1921-1925), 1950s pardons and commutations, 1960s-1970s statistics, and Attorney General's Office correspondence relating to pardons (1983-1990).

0.3 cu. ft. (8 folders in partial box).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Minnesota. Board of Pardons.

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...