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13 Document(s) [ Subject: Highway Department, Texas State ]

Committee: House Wage Scales of State Highway Department, Special
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of committee appointed to investigate certain wage scales
Subjects: Highway Department, Texas State | Wages |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 44th Leg., 3rd C.S. 481 (1936)
Session: 44th R.S. (1935)
Online version: View report [5 pages  File size: 141 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Investigate wage scales now paid by contractors, and other irregularities in awarding contracts by the State Highway Department.
Committee: Senate Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: [Reports].
Subjects: Highway Department, Texas State |
Library Call Number: S.J. of Tex., 43rd Leg., R.S. 592 (1933)
Session: 43rd R.S. (1933)
Online version: View report [4 pages  File size: 145 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Senate will resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole for the purpose of inquiring into certain other charges made by the Governor of the state with respect to the management and expenditures of certain sums of money belonging to the State Highway Fund.
Supporting documents
Committee: Senate Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate
Title: Proceedings
Library Catalog Title: Transcript of proceedings of the Texas State Senate sitting as a Committee of the Whole in the matter of investigation of the Highway Department
Library Call Number: S.J. of Tex., 43rd Leg., R.S. 279 (1933)
Session: 43rd R.S. (1933)
Online version: View document [241 pages  File size: 14,879 kb]
Committee: Senate Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate
Title: Correspondence from Governor Miriam A. Ferguson
Library Catalog Title: [Reports].
Library Call Number: S.J. of Tex., 43rd Leg., R.S. 210 (1933)
Session: 43rd R.S. (1933)
Online version: View document [11 pages  File size: 557 kb]
Committee: Senate Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate, Subcommittee on Rules of Procedure
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: [Reports].
Subjects: Highway Department, Texas State |
Library Call Number: S.J. of Tex., 43rd Leg., R.S. 256 (1933)
Session: 43rd R.S. (1933)
Online version: View report [4 pages  File size: 148 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Formulate rules of conduct and procedure for the hearing, relative to the Highway Department, by the Senate sitting as a Committee of the Whole.
Committee: House Erection of State Highway Building, Investigate
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of the Committee to Investigate Certain Building at Tyler, Texas.
Subjects: Highway Department, Texas State | State buildings | Tyler, Texas |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 41st Leg., 4th C.S., 38 (1930)
Session: 41st R.S. (1929)
Online version: View report [5 pages  File size: 205 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Investigate whether or not the Highway Department had built or contracted to build an office building in the city of Tyler, Texas, and out of what funds such building was contracted to be paid.
Committee: Joint Highway Department, Investigate
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of the Committee to Investigate the Highway Department.
Subjects: Fiscal management | Highway Department, Texas State | State purchasing |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 41st Leg., R.S., 1401 (1929)
Session: 41st R.S. (1929)
Online version: View report [10 pages  File size: 481 kb]
Charges: This report should address the charges below.
1. Conduct an investigation into the affairs of the Highway Department of this State... and the admistration thereof.
2. Investigate each and every act of the three Highway Commissioners of the Highway Department... for the past three years.
3. Investigate all matters pertaining to said offices as may in the judgment of said committee be necessary and proper for the promotion of public welfare.
Committee: House Highway Commission, Investigate
Title: Majority Report
Library Catalog Title: Reports of Committee to Investigate State Highway Department.
Subjects: Highway construction | Highway Department, Texas State | State purchasing |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 39th Leg., R.S. 1874 (1925)
Session: 39th R.S. (1925)
Online version: View report [6 pages  File size: 235 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Investigate irregularities in office of the Highway Commission, charges of discrimination in favor of one contractor, that the department is expense and inefficient, and that road building contracts have been let under peculiar circumstances. *
Committee: House Highway Commission, Investigate
Title: Minority Report
Library Catalog Title: Reports of Committee to Investigate State Highway Department.
Subjects: Highway construction | Highway Department, Texas State | State purchasing |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 39th Leg., R.S. 1875 (1925)
Session: 39th R.S. (1925)
Online version: View report [7 pages  File size: 300 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Investigate irregularities in office of the Highway Commission, charges of discrimination in favor of one contractor, that the department is expense and inefficient, and that road building contracts have been let under peculiar circumstances. *
Committee: House State Departments, Investigate
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of Committee to Investigate Certain State Departments.
Subjects: Board of Control, Texas | Business taxes | Courts | Education, Texas State Board of | Executive clemency | Ferguson, James E. 'Pa' | Ferguson, Miriam A. 'Ma' | Government ethics | Governors | Gubernatorial pardons | Highway construction | Highway Department, Texas State | Motor fuels taxes | Pardons and Paroles, Texas Board of | Prisons | Railroad Commission of Texas | State purchasing | Tax administration | Textbooks | Treasury Department, Texas State |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 40th Leg., R.S., 132 (1927)
Session: 39th R.S. (1925)
Online version: View report [28 pages  File size: 1,593 kb]
Charges: This report should address the charges below.
1. Investigation into the administration of highway affairs by the State Highway Commission; to investigate the manner in which contracts have been let by said commission, and generally to investigate all and every act of said commission since said date.
2. Investigation into the State Treasurer's Department and the Railroad Commission with the view of determining if the State is receiving the full amount due by the oil companies as taxes on gross production of oil, as provided by law.
3. To investigate the granting of pardons, paroles, reprieves and commutation of sentence, and the facts and circumstances connected with the granting of such acts of clemency.
4. To investigate the letting of contracts for the purpose of text-books and the facts surrounding the letting of such contracts.
5. To investigate into the administration of public affairs by such other departments of the State government, as in the judgment of said committee may be necessary, and for the promotion of the public good.
Supporting documents
Committee: House State Departments, Investigate
Title: Transcript and Testimony, Proceedings of Committee Appointed by the Thirty-ninth Legislature to Investigate Certain State Departments, October 18, 1926-January 3, 1927, Supplement to House Journal for Ninth Day, January 21, 1927
Library Catalog Title: Minutes
Library Call Number: L1836.39 IN8
Session: 39th R.S. (1925)
Online version: View document [886 pages  File size: 433,830 kb]
Committee: House Highway Commission, Investigate
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of Committee to Investigate Highway Department.
Subjects: Highway Department, Texas State |
Library Call Number: H.J. of Tex., 36th Leg., 2nd C.S., 319 (1919)
Session: 36th R.S. (1919)
Online version: View report [15 pages  File size: 657 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Investigate the said Highway Department, in all its activities, and all the employes thereof and to audit or have audited the books of said department.
Committee: Joint Central Investigating Committee
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report
Subjects: Agriculture, Texas Department of | Attorney General of Texas | Bachelor's degrees | Comptroller of Public Accounts, Texas | Courts | East Texas A&M University | Education Agency, Texas | General Land Office, Texas | Higher education | Highway Department, Texas State | Investment of public funds | Juvenile detention facilities | Legislative staff | Library & Archives Commission, Texas State | Office of the Governor | Prairie View A&M University | Prison farms | Prison labor | Prisons | Quarantines | Rabies | Railroad Commission of Texas | Sam Houston State University | Secretary of State, Texas | State agencies | State agency budgets | State land | State purchasing | Tarleton State University | Tax administration | Teacher training | Texas A&M University | Texas State University | Texas Woman's University | Treasury Department, Texas State | University of North Texas at Denton | University of Texas at Austin | University of Texas at El Paso | University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | Veterinary Medical Examiners, Texas State Board of | West Texas A&M University |
Library Call Number: L1836.35 In8r / H.J. of Tex., 35th Leg., 4th C.S. 228 (1918)
Session: 35th R.S. (1917)
Online version: View report [58 pages]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. To make a through investigation into the affairs of all departments of the state and every state institution. *

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

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