urn:taro:tslac.50067 Texas Legislature, Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers: An Inventory of the Committee Report at the Texas State Archives, [1930] Finding aid by Nancy Enneking, July 2000 This EAD finding aid was created in part with funds provided by the Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board for the Texas Archival Resources Online project. Texas State Library and Archives Commission July 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, March 2001. Finding aid written inEnglish. April 2001. Corrections and further encoding to TARO project standards by Nancy Enneking, Tue Jul 22 15:38:46 CDT 2003 urn:taro:tslac.50067 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Overview Texas. Legislature. Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers. Committee report [1930] The record consists of a single nine-page report [1930], issued by the Texas Legislature's Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers at the conclusion of its investigation of officers of the state who were paid in collected fees. Fractional English. Restrictions on Access

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 Preferred Citation

(Identify the page), Committee report, Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers, Texas Legislature. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

 Other Formats for the Records

The report was published in the House Journal for the Fourth Called Session of the 41st Legislature.

 Agency History

The Texas Legislature's Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers was created by Senate Concurrent Resolution 20, 41st Legislature, Second Called Session, 1929.

SCR 20 was proposed by Senator Parrish and adopted in the Senate on June 27. The resolution called for a joint committee, composed of two Senators and three Representatives, to make an investigation in reference to fees of office of officers in this state who are paid in fees either in whole or in part, and to ascertain and report on the amounts earned by various officers paid on such basis and how much they retained out of fees of office or other compensation where they receive fees only in part. On June 28 the resolution passed the House, and the Senate appointed Senators Pink L. Parrish and Walter Woodul; Representatives George C. Purl, Carl Rountree, and Jack Keller were not appointed until July 1. The committee was authorized to begin work following the Second Called Session and report to the next Legislature.

The committee held hearings in Fort Worth, Dallas, Greenville, Houston, San Antonio, Abilene, El Paso, Austin, Wichita Falls, and Breckenridge, among other places. The testimony gathered was filed with the Secretary of State. The committee presented its final report to the Fourth Called Session of the 41st Legislature on January 30, 1930 and concluded that the current system required substantial changes. As a result of the report's recommendations several pieces of legislation were proposed during the Fourth Called Session of the 41st Legislature, of which House Bill 9 and Senate Bills 10 and 12 were passed.

 Scope and Contents of the Records

The record consists of a single nine-page report, [1930], issued by the Texas Legislature's Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers at the conclusion of its investigation of officers of the state who were paid in collected fees. The report was addressed to Texas Governor Dan Moody, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and the members of the Texas Legislature. The testimony and evidence collected by the committee was filed with the Texas Secretary of State ca. 1930 but is not a part of this material.

To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.

 Arrangement of the Records

The report is contained in a single file, in page number order.

 Index Terms

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Personal Names: Moody, Daniel James, 1893-1966. Subjects: Legislative bodies--Texas--Committees. Governmental bodies--Texas. Fees, Administration--Texas. Document Types: Report--Texas--Governmental investigations--[1930]. Functions: Administering governmental investigations.

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Publications

Texas. <emph render="underline">Journal of the House of Representatives of the Fourth Called Session of the Forty-first Legislature</emph> . Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., Austin, Tex., [1930]. Processing Information

Nancy Enneking, July 2000

 Accession Information

Accession number: 1973/178

These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Legislative Reference Library on June 22, 1973.

 Detailed Description of the Records Committee report, [1930], fractional cubic ft. 2000 Accessions Box 1 (1973/178) Report of the Legislative Committee to Investigate Fee Officers, [1930]