Governors' messages
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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223
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Contact information: phone number
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001 803 896 6196
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Reference number
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S 165009
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Type of reference number
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Call number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Governors' messages
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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General Assembly
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Date(s)
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1783/1877
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Language(s)
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eng
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Extent
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6.87 linear metres, 9 microfilm reels and 1 folder
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This series forms part of the General Assembly fonds and consists of messages sent from the governors of South Carolina to the General Assembly, including many documents enclosed. Subject matter includes national and international political, constitutional, social, and economic affairs and local concerns.
The 1783-1845 messages represent a modern reassembling of these documents with their enclosures as they were submitted to the General Assembly and, for the period 1783-1830, include some photocopies of retained or other copies of missing items from different repositories. These photocopies are depicted on the microfilm of the 1783-1830 messages but are not included in the digital images of those messages due to copyright issues.
This collection includes a letter sent by Joseph Salvador, from Charleston to Gov. Guerard, on January 10, 1785, complaining about the lack of a circulating medium of exchange, poor roads, lawlessness, and the lack of magistrates during the legislative session (Message 334, p. 15).
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(source: South Carolina Archives Series Description)
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System of arrangement
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Messages from 1783 to 1845 were reassembled into packets as delivered to the General Assembly and arranged roughly chronologically by modern arbitrary assigned numbers, which differ from contemporary governors' message numbers. Records from 1846 to 1877 are chronologically arranged.
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Finding aids
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Messages from 1783 to 1845 are indexed in detail to personal names, geographic locations, and topics in the repository's On-line Index to Legislative Papers, 1782-1866. 1783-1830 were also included in a fifteen-reel computer output microfilm (COM) Index to Legislative Papers made available by the repository in 1991.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2023
