Records, [1930-1931?].

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Records, [1930-1931?].

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Transcript of hearings held 27 Oct. 1931 and 10 Nov. 1931, including written statements by Chief Highway Commissioner Ben M. Sawyer, Superintendent of Motor Transportation W.W. Goodman, S.C. Tax Commission chairman W.G. Query, and State Highway Engineer Charles H. Moorefield. Collection includes auditor's reports re operating expenses of passenger bus services and railroads in the Carolinas and digest of reports; lists financial impact of commerce involved with buses and trains through the state; records list many local bus and train lines based in North and South Carolina, most of which no longer exist under the name listed.

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McMaster, Fitz Hugh, 1867-

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Moorefield, Charles Henry, 1883-1936.

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South Carolina State Highway Engineer, 1920-1935; native of Halifax County, Va.; graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute; employed, 1910 to 1917 by the United States Bureau of Public Roads, after which he joined the Navy's Civil Engineering Corps and supervised road construction in Haiti, 1917-1920. In 1935, Moorefield resigned his position as S.C. Highway Engineer to return to the Bureau of Public Roads and take charge of a newly created roads district jurisdiction that included South Caroli...

Hamrick, W. P.

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South Carolina. Motor Transportation Investigating Committee.

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Motor Transportation Investigating Committee of 1931 included Sen. F. Robinson, J.H. Nance, J.E. Beamguard, John G. Grace, W.P. Hamrick, and Fitz Hugh McMaster; the committee held hearings in Oct. and Nov. 1931 in Columbia, S.C., in accordance with Act. No. 575 of the Acts of 1931 of the General Assembly, authorizing the investigation of motor transportation; the State Highway Department operated somewhat independently of the General Assembly and the Governor, which sometimes prompted investigat...