Research

Scope and Content Note

This series is the complete file documenting the commission's operations and the conduct of its investigation. The series includes:

1) administrative files containing: budget and expenditure data; drafts of the commission's report; correspondence with and reports of consultants regarding public assistance program administration; minutes of commission's monthly meetings; summaries of possible principal areas of study; press releases; written statements submitted to commission before public hearings; transcripts of public hearings held September 11-13, 1962; and printed bills introduced in state legislature and U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in 1962 concerning such matters as home relief, medical care for the aged, aid to dependent children, day care, and welfare fraud;

2) correspondence files containing correspondence with the Governor's office, public and private social welfare officers, civic groups, and citizens, mostly concerning routine matters but sometimes including reports and addresses on public welfare program administration and related materials; and

3) studies, reports, statistics, and articles regarding public assistance by social welfare organizations and experts in New York and other states.

10991-12: This accretion contains newspaper clippings, minutes, and proceedings of the Moreland Commission on Welfare, which were maintained by commission chairman S. Hazard Gillespie.