Annual reports to the governor and legislature, [ca. 1882-1907]

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Annual reports to the governor and legislature, [ca. 1882-1907]

This series contains reports from a wide variety of state agencies, offices, commissions, schools, hospitals, and other institutions as well as private organizations required to submit such reports to the governor. From annotations written on some reports (e.g. "has been sent to legislature"; "need not be transmitted"), some items of correspondence found in the series, and the fact that some reports are addressed to the legislature, it appears that these are the governor's copies of reports that were intended to be seen by both the governor and the legislature.

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