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Special Commissions, Boards, Authorities and Institutions (alphabetical by key word, H - L)


Early governors' records may also include copies of authority minutes.


Series:
Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission
Hackensack Meadowlands Reclamation and Development Act with Digest, ca. 1969
Control #:
SZHAC001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (1 report)

Series:
New York, New Jersey Port and Harbor Development Commission
Joint Report with Comprehensive Plan and Recommendations, 1920
Control #:
SZHAR001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (1 vol.)

Series:
State Board of Health
Circulars, 1883-1907
Control #:
SZHEA001
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 box)
Arrangement:
By circular number
Notes:
State Board of Health circulars can also be found printed in the Minutes of the Board.

Series:
New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority
Annual Reports, 1979-1980
Control #:
SZHEC001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (2 reports)

Series:
Commission to Study Services and Programs Available to Hearing-Impaired Children
Records, 1987-1990
Control #:
SZHEI001
Format:
4 c.f. (4 boxes)

Series:
New Jersey Higher Education Assistance Authority
Meeting Files, 1959-1999
Control #:
SZHIE001
Format:
13 c.f. (13 boxes)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Include agendas, minutes, memos, and other materials relating to each meeting.
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Series:
New Jersey Highway Authority
Minutes, 1976-1981
Control #:
SZHIG001
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 box)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
New Jersey Highway Authority
Reports (Garden State Parkway), 1952-1966 & 1991
Control #:
SZHIG002
Format:
0.25 c.f. (18 reports)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Includes Annual Reports for 1952-1966 and 1991, and report on the first five years, 1959.
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Series:
State Highway Commission
Reports, 1921-1934
Control #:
SZHIH001
Format:
1.25 c.f. (3 boxes)
Notes:
Includes annual reports, report of the Advisory Board Vehicular Tunnel Traffic Study (1923), etc.
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Series:
State Highway Commission
Ledger of Accounts of Allotments from the Motor Vehicle Fund, 1916-1921
Control #:
SZHIH002
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 vol.)

Series:
State Highway Commission
County Account Ledger of the Commissioner of Public Roads, 1892-1916
Control #:
SZHIH003
Format:
0.75 c.f. (1 vol.)
Notes:
Accounts for laying macadam and gravel.

Series:
Commission on Historic Sites
Records, 1929-1946
Control #:
SZHIP001
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 box)
Notes:
Includes 1986 correspondence about the records themselves.

Series:
New Jersey Historic Trust
Annual Reports, 1993-1997
Control #:
SZHIR001
Format:
0.3 c.f. (3 reports)

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission
Interview Transcripts from Grant-Funded Oral History Projects, 1974-2002
Control #:
SZHIS001
Format:
6.25 c.f. (14 boxes)
Arrangement:
Chronological by subseries
Notes:
Transcripts cover a variety of topics; see guide for details.

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission
Oral History Program: The Political and Government Leaders of Twentieth-Century New Jersey, 1978-1987
Control #:
SZHIS002
Format:
6.5 c.f. (5 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alpha by interviewee
Notes:
Includes bound final transripts, unprocessed transcripts and cassette tapes of interviews.
Restrictions:
Use of tapes may require reformatting at user's expense.

Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission/New Jersey Network
"New Jersey Legacy" Film Documentary Series, 1992-1994
Control #:
SZHIS003
Format:
0.15 c.f. (3 video tapes)
Notes:
This series was a co-production of the New Jersey Historical Commission and New Jersey Network.
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Series:
New Jersey Historical Commission
Tapes and Transcripts from the Multi-Ethnic Oral History Project, ca. 1979-1980
Control #:
SZHIS004
Format:
13.5 c.f. (14 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical by interviewee
Notes:
Material has not been processed.
Restrictions:
Use of tapes may require reformatting at user's expense.

Series:
State Historical Records Advisory Board
Statewide Records Assessment and Reporting Project Final Report and Precis, 1983
Control #:
SZHIU001
Format:
0.25 c.f. (3 reports, 2 typescripts)
Arrangement:
By item
Notes:
Includes published copies and original typed manuscripts of report and precis.
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Series:
Task Force on New Jersey History
Records, 1996-1997
Control #:
SZHIV001
Format:
2.5 c.f. (3 boxes)
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Series:
New Jersey Hospital Rate Setting Commission
Minutes, 1979-1990
Control #:
SZHOS001
Format:
15 reels (16-mm)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
New Jersey Hospital Rate Setting Commission
Annual Reports, 1981-1986
Control #:
SZHOS002
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 box)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
State Board of Human Services
Secretary's Correspondence Files, 1946-1980
Control #:
SZHUM001
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 box)

Series:
New Jersey Committee for the Humanities
Interim Progress Report, 1988
Control #:
SZHUT001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (1 report)
Notes:
Dated June 1988.

Series:
New Jersey Information Resources Management Commission
Records, 1994-1998
Control #:
SZINF001
Format:
3 c.f. (3 boxes)
Notes:
Includes meeting minutes, agendas, reports, audio tapes, etc.
Restrictions:
Use of some material may require reformatting at user's expense.
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Series:
Commission to Select a Site and Build an Asylum for the Insane of New Jersey
Reports, 1869-1886
Control #:
SZINL001
Format:
0.15 c.f. (11 reports)
Notes:
Includes 1869, 1871-1877, 1878, 1884, 1886. Relates to asylum at Morristown/Morris Plains (now Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital).

Series:
Board of Institutional Trustees
Board Member Appointment Files, ca. 1949-1980
Control #:
SZINS001
Format:
5 c.f. (5 boxes)
Arrangement:
Alphabetical by member's name
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Series:
Commission to Study the Department of Institutions and Agencies
Reports: Design for the Future, Social Welfare in New Jersey, 1958-1959
Control #:
SZINT001
Format:
0.2 c.f. (4 vols.)

Series:
State Commission of Investigation
Appendices to the Report on the Investigation of the Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey, ca. 1970-ca. 1972
Control #:
SZINV001
Format:
1 c.f. (3 vols.)
Notes:
Includes transcripts of testimony before the Commission (Vols. I & II) and correspondence, newspaper clippings, etc. (Vol. III).

Series:
Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Commission (1905-1908)
Visitors Registers, 1907
Control #:
SZJAM001
Format:
2.5 c.f. (5 vols.)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Judicial Council of New Jersey
Annual Reports, 1930-1937
Control #:
SZJUD001
Format:
0.25 c.f. (1 box)
Notes:
The Judicial Council was created by law in 1930 to "make continuous study of the organization and relation of the various courts ..."

Series:
Juvenile Delinquency Commission
Report on Justice and the Child in New Jersey, 1939
Control #:
SZJUV001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (1 vol.)

Series:
Commissioners to Regulate and Ascertain the Price of Labor, Manufacturing, Produce, and Imported Commodities
Minutes, 1778
Control #:
SZLAB001
Format:
0.1 c.f. (1 vol.)
Arrangement:
Chronological
Notes:
Sections of pages 7-10, which included the New Jersey commissioners' credentials, are missing.

Series:
New Jersey Law Enforcement Council
Records, 1953-1958 & 1967-1968
Control #:
SZLAW001
Format:
30 c.f. (30 boxes)

Series:
Law Revision and Bill Drafting Commission
Reports, 1944-1954
Control #:
SZLAX001
Format:
0.05 c.f. (9 reports)

Series:
Law Revision and Legislative Services Commission
Annual Reports to the Legislature, 1955-1961
Control #:
SZLAY001
Format:
0.05 c.f. (9 reports)

Series:
New Jersey Law Revision Commission
Annual Report, 1991
Control #:
SZLAZ001
Format:
0.01 c.f. (1 report)

Series:
Commission on Legal and Ethical Problems in the Delivery of Health Care (NJ Bioethics Commission)
Records, ca. 1986-1992
Control #:
SZLEG001
Format:
14 c.f. (14 boxes)
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Series:
New Jersey State Library
New Jersey War History Bureau
Records, ca. 1919-ca. 1922
Control #:
SZLIB001
Format:
11 c.f. (11 boxes)

Series:
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (1902-04)/ Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition Commission (1905-08)
Photograph Albums, 1907-1908
Control #:
SZLOU001
Format:
0.6 c.f. (2 vols.)
Arrangement:
Chronological
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Series:
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (1902-1904)
Visitors Register, 1904
Control #:
SZLOU002
Format:
0.5 c.f. (1 vol.)
Arrangement:
Chronological


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Series:
Governor Richard Joseph Hughes (1909-1992; served 1962-1970)
Minutes of State and Interstate Authorities, 1962-1970
Control #:
S5100004
Format:
20 c.f. (20 boxes)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Includes Turnpike, Port of New York, Delaware River Port, Delaware River Joint Toll & NJ Highway Authorities. Box nos. 420-439.

Series:
Governor William Thomas Cahill (1912-1996; served 1970-1974)
Counsel's Office
Minutes of Commissions and Authorities, 1970-1973
Control #:
S52CO013
Format:
29 c.f. (29 boxes)
Arrangement:
Chronological

Series:
Governor Brendan Thomas Byrne (1924- ; served 1974-1982)
Counsel's Office
Minutes of State and Interstate Authorities, 1972-1982
Control #:
S53CO005
Format:
54 c.f. (55 boxes)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Includes files of Donald Linky, Lewis Kaden, Donald Sharkey, Teel Rhett, Leo Motiuk, Stewart Pollock, Arlene Gardner & Amy Piro.

Series:
Governor Thomas Howard Kean (1935- ; served 1982-1990)
Counsel's Office
Authorities Minutes, 1981-1986
Control #:
S54CO006
Format:
17 c.f. (17 boxes)
Arrangement:
Various
Notes:
Includes boxes G-16 to G-22, G-250 to G-251, G-633 to G-638, G-840 and G-1274.


~ The collections listed on this page represent 240.11 c.f. of paper records and 15 reels of microfilm ~



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This page last updated 05/17/2006