Minutes of Commission meetings, 1871-1886.

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Minutes of Commission meetings, 1871-1886.

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Commission proceedings records include meeting date; commissioners present; communications received (occasionally with reason); expenditure approval; Grain Inspection Department financial reports; road inspection reports made by commissioners or consulting engineer; new employee appointment; grain inspector bonds; complaints or petitions and commission's opinion or order; railroad companies against which suits were filed; continued case lists; proposed legislation concerning railroad crossings; grain inspection; interlocking drawbridges; passenger and freight rate schedules; and commission classification, rate, and inspection rulings. One proceedings volume (1880-1885) concerns only warehouse business such as grain inspection rulings; complaints against grain inspectors; monthly expense and inspection report approval.

ledgers 11 volumes.

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