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Three coordinating documents bound together with 2 rivets.Context
1st document: Official document from the State of Missouri, Department of State. "To all Whom these Presents shall Come" from Cornelius Roach, Secretary of State of the State if Missouri
House Bill 1137
An Act to appropriate money for the support, maintenance and improvements of the eleemosynary and penal institutions of the state for the years 1909 and 1910, with an emergency clause. Approved June 8, 1909.
As the same appears on file and of record in this office. In Testimony Whereof, thereunto set my hand and affix the GREAT SEAL of the State of Missouri. Done at the City of Jefferson, this 19th day of July Nineteen Hundred and Nine.
2nd document: A letter typed on the Secretary of State, Cornelius Roach letterhead to Superintendent, State Hospital No. 2, St. Joseph, Missouri, dated July 19th, 1909.
'Dear Sir, -
Owing to an error in the paragraph of the Advance Sheets of the Sessions Act of 1909 applying to your institution, I am herewith enclosing a certified copy of the Appropriation Bill giving the correct figures for your guidance and to prevent the possibility of your being misled by the error in the advance sheet publication.
Yours truly.'
3rd document: An 8 page typed copy of the 'HOUSE BILL NO. 1137, 45th General Assembly.
Introduced by Mr. Lloyd. Read 1st time. . . . Read 2nd time . . . .Reported from the Committee on Appropriations . . . . Ordered engrossed and printed as amended on May 5, 1909'
AN ACT- To Act to appropriate money for the support, maintenance and improvements of the eleemosynary and penal institutions of the state for the years 1909 and 1910, with an emergency clause.
Section1. There is hereby appropriated out of the treasury . . .
Sec. 2. For the "State Hospital No. 1," at Fulton . . .
Sec. 2a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 3. For the "State Hospital No. 2," at St. Joseph . . .
Sec. 3a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 4. For the "State Hospital No. 3," at Nevada . . .
Sec. 5. For the "State Hospital No. 4," at Farmington . . .
Sec. 5a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 6. For the "Missouri School for the Deaf," at Fulton, . . .
Sec. 6a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 7. For the "Missouri School for the Deaf," at St. Louis . . .
Sec. 8. For the "Missouri Training School for Boys," at Boonville . . .
Sec. 8a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 9. For the :Industrial Home for Girls," at Chillicothe . . .
Sec. 9a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 10. For the "Confederate Soldiers' Home," at Higginsville . . .
Sec. 10a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 11. For the "Confederate Soldiers' Home," at St. James . . .
Sec. 12. For the "Colony of the Feeble Minded and Epileptic," at Marshall . . .
Sec. 13. For the "Missouri State Sanatorium," at Mt. Vernon . . .
Sec. 13a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 14. For the "Missouri Penitentiary," at Jefferson City . . .
Sec. 14a. For the purpose of meeting the deficiencies of 1907 and 1908 . . .
Sec. 15. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to State Hospital No. 1 fund . . .
Sec. 16. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to State Hospital No. 2 fund . . .
Sec. 17. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to State Hospital No. 3 fund . . .
Sec. 18. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to State Hospital No. 4 fund . . .
Sec. 19. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the School for the Deaf fund . . .
Sec. 20. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the School for the Blind fund . . .
Sec. 21. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the Training School for Boys fund . . .
Sec. 22. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the Industrial Home for Girls fund . . .
Sec. 23. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to earnings of the Missouri Penitentiary fund . . .
Sec. 24. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the revolving fund . . .
Sec. 25. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the Colony for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic fund . . .
Sec. 26. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the Confederate Soldiers' Home fund . . .
Sec. 27. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the Confederate Soldiers' Home fund . . .
Sec. 27a. There is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury, chargeable to the Missouri State Sanitarium fund . . .
Sc. 28. The amounts herein appropriated for the support of the eleemosynary and penal institutions of the state, and for the pay of salaries and employes, shall be payable out of the treasury on the first day of every month in each year, . . .
Sec. 29. The immediate necessity of the appropriations in this bill for these institutions creates an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution; therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.'
(Throughout this copy of the bill are several underlines in red ink and handwritten edits in pencil of corrections of figures and verbiage, as it pertains to State Hospital No. 2)Lexicon
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