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Senate Committee on State Indebtedness - 17th R.S. (1881)

Committee Members
Charles Stewart, Chair
William Kercheval Homan
Samuel C. Patton
William Russell Shannon
Richard M. Wynne
Charges
• Investigate certain items of indebtedness, reported by the Comptroller of Public Accounts in his annual reports as of doubtful validity.*
• Inquire into the origin of state indebtedness, how it was contracted, to whom it was due in the first instance, and the manner of its disposition as made by preceding Legislatures.*

Note:
Appointed 1/15/1881, pursuant to resolution by Stewart; Stewart listed as Chairman in special committee report 3/11/1881 (Senate Journal, 17th R.S., pp. 16, 203-204).

* This represents an abstract of the report contents. Charge text is incomplete or unavailable.

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