Legislative Records--West Virginia House of Delegates State Government Costs Committee, 1943

Includes correspondence, statistics, reports, and transcripts relative to Rush Holt’s activity with the Government Costs Committee.

Correspondence includes letters sent and received by Rush Holt regarding expenditures for West Virginia and other states.

Statistics and reports include information sent to and gathered by Rush Holt regarding state-owned cars in West Virginia.

Institutions and departments represented include the Department of Agriculture, West Virginia University, Huntington State Hospital, the Department of Mines, and the State Road Commission, among others.

The transcript document testimonies in the February 5 to March 1, 1943 hearings to investigate the cost of state government for which Rush Holt served as chairman. Entities represented by the testimonies include the Publicity Commission, the Bureau of Negro Welfare, the Road Commission, and the Labor Department, among others.