Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of one volume of transcripts of correspondence and other documents created mostly by the office of Governor Charles E. Hughes. The records include letters from private citizens, announcements of appointments to and dismissals from various commissions and other public positions, approvals of resolutions, memoranda on pending bills, and other public reports of the governor's activities. Four documents relating to Governor Frank Wayland Higgins' administration and one relating to Governor Horace White's administration are also included.

Records compiled by the office of Governor Charles E. Hughes also include a loose set of petitions requesting that the governor "exercise the power in [him] vested by law" to examine and abate pollution of the Hudson River by municipalities and industrial establishments. Additional records include a substantial subject and correspondence file pertaining to the examination and investigation of the management and affairs of the State Board of Embalming Examiners under the provisions of Section 7 of the Executive Law (Moreland Act). Contrary to the opinion of State Attorney General Edward R. O'Malley, Commissioner Owen L. Potter concluded that the board was not extravagant in its expenditures. Potter also concluded that the board did not exceed its statutory authority in adopting bylaws regulating embalming fluids and was not derelict in its duty to investigate complaints against members of the profession.