Governors' messages
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223
Contact information: phone number
001 803 896 6196
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
Reference number
S 165009
Type of reference number
Call number
Title (official language of the state)
Governors' messages
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
General Assembly
Date(s)
1783/1877
Language(s)
eng
Extent
6.87 linear metres, 9 microfilm reels and 1 folder
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
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).
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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System of arrangement
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.
Access, restrictions
Digital copies are available online:
Finding aids
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
Carla Vieira, 2023
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