Montana Historical Society
Archives
RS 111
Montana. Attorney General's
Office
Montana Attorney General's Office records
1949-1982
25 linear feet
These records (1949-1982) of the Montana Attorney General's
Office consist of interoffice correspondence, general correspondence (arranged by
correspondent and subject, including dockets and informal opinions), annual reports of
tax-exempt private foundations, speeches, and miscellany. (Reel-to-reel tapes transferred to
Oral History)
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English
Article VII, Section 1 of the 1889 Montana Constitution established the Office of the
Attorney General, which required that the Attorney General be elected and serve a four-year
term. The framers of the state's first constitution believed that, since the state's
Legislative Assembly would be in session only briefly every two years, it was necessary for
an elected official responsible not to the Governor, but to the electorate, to serve as a
check upon gubernatorial power. The Attorney General was charged with a number of duties,
the most important of which included the handling and presentation before the Supreme Court
of legal cases in which the state or a county was interested; supervising and assisting
county attorneys; giving his written opinion to the Legislative Assembly, state officers and
agencies, county attorneys, and boards of county commissioners upon certain legal questions;
and participating as a member of several state boards, including the Board of Examiners, the
Board of Education, and the Board of Land Commissioners.
Much of the actual legal research work of the Office is done by assistant attorneys
general. All communications received by the Office, requests for information or opinions,
and litigations are assigned by the first assistant to the other attorneys. Their work is
then reviewed by the first assistant and final approval or disapproval is made by the
attorney general. While the assistant attorneys general are not permitted to engage in the
private practice of law, special assistants are hired, generally on a part-time basis, and
they are permitted to continue private practice if that practice does not create a conflict
of interest with state employment. In addition, various state agencies hire legal counsels,
often from private firms; these counsels are required to keep the attorney general apprised
of the work they were doing for the state. While the attorney general cannot prevent the
employment of legal counsel by the various state agencies, he can refuse to give those
counsels an appointment as a special assistant, in which case the counsel can not make court
appearances on behalf of the state.
The Attorney General is sometimes called upon to issue an official opinion, an expression
of the legal reasons and principles upon which a decision should be based, reflecting the
state's stand on law. Much more frequently, the attorney general issues informal opinions
for state agencies and certain others, such as county attorneys and county commissioners.
Informal opinions or "letter opinions," are based upon citations of statute or earlier
formal opinions. While the Attorney General is not permitted by statute to give formal
opinions to those outside state agencies and certain political subdivisions, he does at
times provide a general legal view of a particular situation to individuals or groups making
inquiry. Attorneys general of Montana include Arnold H. Olsen, elected in 1948; Forrest H.
Anderson, 1956; Robert Woodahl, 1968; and Mike Greely, 1976.
The records of the Attorney General's Office consist primarily of general correspondence
(1963-1966) arranged alphabetically by correspondent and subject (including attorney general
dockets, and informal and formal opinions). Researchers are cautioned that informal
opinions of the attorney general are found throughout the entire record Series in addition
to those found in the "informal opinions" files. The correspondence concerns, for the most
part, legal matters in which the Attorney General's Office was involved as legal counsel or
in response to inquiries. The correspondence files of the Department of Fish and Game, the
Department of Health, and the Livestock Commission include carbon copies of the
correspondence of those agencies and their respective legal counsel, which served to keep
the attorney general's staff apprised of their work on behalf of those agencies.
The collection also contains interoffice correspondence (1965-1978), consisting of
memoranda of the attorney general's staff concerning a variety of legal issues (memoranda
also appear in general correspondence files); Press releases (1957-1978); reports
(1959-1978), including annual reports of private foundations exempt from income tax, and
monthly reports of special attorneys general; speeches (1966, n.d.) of Forrest H. Anderson,
Robert Woodahl, and Mike Greely; and miscellany.
Artifacts, maps, photographs, and printed material have been transferred to the Museum,
Library Map Collection, Photograph Archives, and Library respectively. Reel-to-reel tapes
transferred to Oral History.
Researchers should be aware that information may be found filed under a variety of subject
and agency headings. For example, material on "gambling" may be found in correspondence with
a particular county attorney, or "investigations," "complaints," etc., as well as under
"gambling."
The collection is arranged in seven series: 1) Interoffice Correspondence, 2) General
Correspondence, 3) Opinions, 4) Press Releases, 5) Reports, 6) Speeches, and 7)
Miscellany.
Collection open for research.
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical
Society Library & Archives. The Library & Archives does not necessarily hold
copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require
additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an
archivist.
Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers.
Montana Historical Society Library & Archives, Helena, Montana.
Acquisition information is available upon request.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Montana Historical Society
Archives catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places
should search under these terms.
Abortion
Academic freedom
Agriculture and state
Air--Pollution
Automobile industry and trade
Bank mergers
Banks and banking
Banks and banking--Law and legislation
Blackfeet Indians--Politics and government
Capitols
Cemeteries
Chaplains, prison
Child welfare
Civil rights
Consumer protection
Corporation law
Corruption (in politics)
County attorneys
County government
Courts
Discrimination
Divorce
Education--Finance
Educational laws and legislation
Election law
Elections
Elections--Corrupt practices
Endowments
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Equality before the law
Family social work
Federal government
Fire fighters
Forest management
Forest roads
Gambling
Gasoline--Prices
Grazing districts
Hospitals
Hutterite Brethren
Indians of North America--Government relations
Indians oof North America--Legal status, laws,
etc.
Industrial laws and legislation
Industry and state
Insurance
Irrigation
Journalism, college
Juvenile delinquency
Labor disputes
Labor laws and legislation
Law enforcement
Liquor laws
Local government
Medical care
Mines and mineral resources--Montana
Municipal government
Narcotics, control of
Nurses
Nursing--Study and teaching
Nursing homes
Oil and gas leases
Pharmacists
Phosphate mines and mining
Pollution
Pornography
Printing
Prison riots
Prisoners
Privacy, right of
Private schools
Prostitution
Public health
Public lands
Public utilities--Regulation
Public welfare
Religion in the public schools
Rustling
School boards
School bonds
School districts
School management and organization
School superintendents
Sewage disposal
Strip mining
Taxation
Labor unions
Undertakers and undertaking
Universities and colleges
Water districts
Water--Pollution
Water rights
Wildlife conservation--Law and legislation
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Rights of women
Alice Creek (Mont.)
Clark Fork (Mont. and Idaho)
East Bench Irrigation District
(Beaverhead County, Mont.)
Flathead Indian Reservation
(Mont.)
Free Enterprise Uranium-Radon
Mine (Boulder, Mont.)
Glacier National Park (Mont.)
Heddleston Mining District
(Lewis And Clark County, Mont.)
Lincoln Mining District (Mont.)
Madison Buffalo Jump State
Monument (Mont.)
Northern Cheyenne Indian
Reservation (Mont.)
Yellowstone River
Rattlesnake Creek (Mont.)
Rocky Boys Indian Reservation
(Mont.)
Tongue River (Wyo. and Mont.)
Montana
Civil Rights
Environmental
Conditions
Fisheries and
Wildlife
Government and
Politics
Irrigation
Journalism
Labor History
Mines and Mineral
Resources
Native Americans
Public Utilities
Women
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection
Interoffice Correspondence
1 / 1
Miscellaneous (re Board of Education and budgets of
institutions under its control; election recount procedure; federal Voting Rights Act;
Anaconda Company's Lincoln-Heddleston easement; proposed Corps of Engineers dams near
Lincoln; jurisdication of police on university property in drug cases; etc.)
1965, 1969-1970
1 / 2
Miscellaneous (re right to counsel in misdemeanors;
capital punishment; Attorney General's right to institute criminal proceedings; police
retirement system; prostitution and drugs in Miles City; state agency contributions to
Montana Broadcasters Association; Montana Kaimin; financing of nursing building at
Montana State University; election to ratify constitution; union label; includes
resolutions passed by Montana Typographical Conference and Montana Coin machine
Operators Association bill for limited gambling)
1971-1972
1 / 3
Miscellaneous (re filing water rights on state lands;
alleged secret drug squads; Consumer Protection Bill etc.; includes "Modernizing Local
Government Why It Cannot Wait" by Thomas L. Judge)
1973
1 / 4
Miscellaneous (re audit reports on State Auditor's
Office; proposed Criminal Inquiry Court; etc.)
1974
1 / 5
Miscellaneous (re sale of brucellosis-infected
livestock; Commissioner of Campaign Practices duties and powers; drugs and
prostitution in Flathead-Libby area; civil disorders; Governor's power to limit
proposals that can be considered at special legislative session; violations of Clean
Ari Act by Montana Power Company; etc.)
1975-1976
1 / 6
Miscellaneous (re Indian-state relations; Anaconda
Company mining violation etc.; includes list of attorneys commissioned as assistant
attorneys general and Department of Justice organizational chart)
1977
1 / 7
Miscellaneous (re private schools; Coal Tax
litigation; habeas corpus procedure; etc.; includes Department of Justice
organizational chart)
1978
General Correspondence
1 / 8
Abortion
1971-1976
1 / 9
Accountancy
1973-1975
1 / 10
Adjusted Compensation Division Honorarium (re Korean
War bonds)
1957
1 / 11
Adjutant General (re lease of armories)
1963-1964
1 / 12-16
Administration, Department of (re Capitol remodeling;
Constitutional Convention as a state agency; water wells and production well at State
Prison Ranch; etc.)
1963-1978
1 / 17
Administration, Department of: Investment Division
1975-1976
1 / 18
Administration, Department of: Public Employees'
Retirement Division
1973-1974
1 / 19
Adoption
1963-1955
1 / 20
Advertising (re legal restrictions on use of title
"Charles Russell Country: for recreation area near Glasgow)
1970
1 / 21
Aeronautics Commission
1965-1971
1 / 22
Aging, Commission on
1967-1969
1 / 23-25
Agriculture, Department of (re National Farmers
Organization; assets of dissolved Montana Rural Rehabilitation Corporation; State
Board of Pharmacy and the Montana Pesticides Act; etc.)
1963-1977
1 / 26
Anaconda Community Development Department (re
proposed shopping mall)
1978
1 / 27
Appropriations (re State Home for the Senile Aged
etc.)
1963
1 / 28
Architects
1968-1970
1 / 29
Architecture (re competitive bids for services etc.)
1967-1972
1 / 30
Attorney General's Office (includes personal
correspondence; report of Task Force on Data Processing; etc.)
1963-1978
1 / 31
Attorney General's Office investigations
1963
2 / 1
Attorney General's Office investigations
1964
2 / 2
Attorney General's Office investigations (re Radical
Students' Union at University of Montana; etc.)
1966-1972
2 / 3
Attorney General's Office investigations (re
complaints by State Prison inmates)
1973-1974
2 / 4
Attorney General's Office investigations
1975
2 / 5
Attorney General's Office investigations (re proposed
Anaconda Mall)
1976
2 / 6
Attorney General's Office investigations (re West
Yellowstone Study Commission, etc.)
1977
2 / 7
Attorney General's Office investigations: Tim
Babcock's financing of Colonial Inn, Helena
1970
2 / 8
Attorney General's Office investigations: Fern A.
Ballard, R.N. (re revocation of nurse's license)
1957
2 / 9
Attorney General's Office investigations: Butte
gambling
1973
2 / 10
Attorney General's Office investigations: Larry M.
Cheadle (re death at State Prison)
1967-1968
2 / 11-13
Attorney General's Office investigations: gambling,
narcotics and prostitution (by county)
1969-1973
2 / 14
Attorney General's Office investigations: Glacier
National Park land exchange
1953-1957
2 / 15
Attorney General's Office investigations: Helena
gambling and jail
1949
2 / 16-18
Attorney General's Office investigations: Clayton
Hirst (re death of Blackfeet Indian man in Glacier County jail; includes materials on
John T. Isaacson; transcript of hearings)
1975
2 / 19
Attorney General's Office investigations: hospitals
(re criminal investigations without court order or consent of patient)
1977-1978
2 / 20
Attorney General's Office investigations: janitorial
contracts (includes "General Instructions Specifications Custodial Services for
Various Campus Buildings)
1976
2 / 21
Attorney General's Office investigations: Jourgensen
Paint Manufacturing Company
1972-1973
2 / 22-24
Attorney General's Office investigations: Liquor
Control Board (re Canadian servicemen at Malmstrom Air Base; illegal distribution of
liquor etc.)
1967-1970
3 / 1-4
Attorney General's Office investigations: Liquor
Control Board (re illegal distribution of liquor; Francis B. "Red" Welsh, Billings;
etc.)
1969-1973
3 / 5-6
Attorney General's Office investigations: George
McGaffick (re discrepancies on Natural Resources Council travel expenses)
1971-1975
3 / 7
Attorney General's Office investigations: Montana vs.
Edna J. Hinman, Frank Murray and J. Ward Crosby (re alleged misappropriation of state
funds)
1958
3 / 8
Attorney General's Office investigations: 1970
election (re elections in Toole, Missoula, Silver Bow, Deer Lodge and Yellowstone
counties)
1970
3 / 9
Attorney General's Office investigations: Barry
Plummer (re homicide)
1972-1973
3 / 10-11
Attorney General's Office investigations: Edmund
Barry Reutherdahl (re misappropriation of state funds)
1967-1968
3 / 12
Attorney General's Office investigations: Rocky Boy's
Indian Reservation liquor license)
1970-1974
3 / 13
Attorney General's Office investigations: Dr. Edward
Shelton (re narcotics sales)
1973
3 / 14
Attorney General's Office investigations: E.D.
Simmons (re charges of prison brutality)
1969
3 / 15
Attorney General's Office investigations: James
Steffeck (re purchase without bid)
1972
3 / 16
Attorney General's Office investigations: Edward Towe
(re Reserve Bank withdrawal)
1967
3 / 17
Attorney General's Office investigations: University
of Montana Science Complex (re faulty construction)
1972
3 / 18-19
Attorney General's Office investigations: University
of Montana Work-Study Fund (re misappropriation of funds)
1972-1973
3 / 20
Attorney General's Office investigations: Highway
Commissioner George Vucanovich (re alleged conflict of interest)
1971
3 / 21
Attorney General's Office investigations: Workmen's
Compensation Division (re investigative staff administration)
1973-1976
3 / 22
Attorney General's Office: amicus curiae briefs
1971-1976
4 / 1
Attorney General's Office: County Prosecutor Services
1977
4 / 2
Attorney General's Office: special assistant
attorneys general
1969
4 / 3-8
Attorney General's Office: personal (re Charles C.
Lovell; gambling; Anaconda Company; Liquor Control Board; Workmen's Compensation;
Dorothy Bradley campaign; University of Montana Law School; Stan Stephens;
Lambda-sponsored Conference on Sexual Minorities (homosexual); etc.)
1975-1976
4 / 9
Attorneys
1958
4 / 10
Auditor, State (re responsibility to investigate and
report fires, etc.)
1964-1976
4 / 11
Automobile licenses (re tax exempt status of motor
vehicles owned by Indian tribes)
1965
RESTRICTED
4 / 12
Automobile registration
1967-1968
4 / 13-15
Banks and banking (re proposed merger of Pioneer
Building and Loan, Bozeman, and Empire Savings and Loan, Livingston; bank messenger
services as branch banking; etc.)
1955-1975
4 / 16
Barber Examiners, Board of
1969-1970
4 / 17
Blackfeet Tribe (re authority of tribe over
non-Indians on reservation)
1974-1975
4 / 18-19
Bonds
1962-1975
4 / 20
Boulder River School and Hospital (re labor
relations; etc. includes report on conditions)
1965-1976
4 / 21
Brucellosis (includes Montana Stockgrowers
Association resolutions, and lists of Rosebud County land and cattle owners, by
township)
1958
4 / 22
Business regulation (re Jon E. Cates photographs,
etc.)
1973-1976
4 / 23
Butte police (re removal of Chief of Police James A.
Clark)
1969-1971
4 / 24
Capital punishment
1972, 1977
4 / 25
Capitol repairs (includes memo re use of capitol land
grants)
1957
4 / 26
Cemeteries
1973
4 / 27
Children's Center (re incorrigibles; etc.)
1964, 1974
4 / 28
Chiropractic Examiners, State Board of (re H.G.
Vodicka, Great Falls; etc.)
1963-1968
4 / 29
Chiropractors
1969-1970
4 / 30-32
Cities
1968-1976
4 / 33-34
Civil Defense (includes obligation to remove ice jams
along rivers)
1968, 1971
4 / 35
Civil rights
1963-1973
4 / 36
Clean Air Act
1982
4 / 37
Coal slurry pipeline
1982
4 / 38
Coin-operated gasoline pumps
1964
4 / 39
Commission on Unauthorized Practice of Law
1977
4 / 40
Commissioner of Higher Education (re site of Montana
Law Enforcement Academy; etc.)
1977-1978
4 / 41
Community Affairs, Department of (re Montana Economic
Land Development Act; etc.)
1975-1978
4 / 42
Complaints (re Rocky Mountain Phosphates Inc.,
Garrison; pollution; etc.)
1963-1966
5 / 1
Complaints (re gambling in Butte; etc.)
1967-1971
5 / 2
Complaints, Criminal (re Board of Cosmetology; etc.)
1968
5 / 3
Conflict of interest
1957-1975
5 / 4
Consumer protection
1973-1977
5 / 5
Constitution (re petitions for repeal of 1972
Constitution)
1977
5 / 6
Contracts (re Montana State University Agricultural
Experiment Station; Flathead County; etc.)
1967-1972
5 / 7
Controller (re acquisition of Corbin Addition
property for Capitol Complex; etc.)
1963-1968
5 / 8
Copy of law (re general inquiries on state law)
1967-1968
5 / 9
Corporate dissolution
1969-1972
5 / 10
Corporations
1965-1972
5 / 11
Cosmetology, State Examining Board of (includes Board
of Barber Examiners)
1963-1974
5 / 12
Counties (re public funds for parochial schools;
pornography; conflict of interest of banker as county commissioner; gasoline taxes on
Indian reservations; public disclosure of legal advise by County Attorney; fees for
creation of SID; county sheriffs' representation by county attorneys; refusal of
county clerk and recorder to file deeds; Missoula Indian Alcohol and Drug Service;
county ambulance service; water district filing fees; leasing of county land to
grazing associations; etc.)
1975-1976
RESTRICTED
5 / 13
Counties (re zoning in rural areas; gambling in
Missoula; Bitterroot Valley land development; Bitterroot Conservation District;
nepotism and discrimination; murder of Roger Lee Clement; Yellowstone County jail
conditions; etc.)
1978
5 / 14
County attorney investigation (re Galen State
Hospital; Industrial Accident Board; Social and Rehabilitation Services)
1972
5 / 15
County attorney training coordinator
1974
5 / 16-17
County attorneys (re medical care in county jails;
Blanchard Lake island; etc.)
1964-1968
5 / 16-17
County attorneys (re medical expenses for prisoners
in county jails; etc.)
1969-1970
5 / 18
County attorneys (re right of county attorneys to
initiate appeals; Attorney General's Office organization; gambling in Cascade County;
abandonned coal mine fire; etc.)
1969-1970
5 / 19
County attorneys (re gambling in Lewistown;
marijuana; desecration of American flag with peace symbol; road to Big Sky
Development; drug use in Garfield County; etc.)
1969-1970
5 / 21
County attorneys (re county responsibility for foster
child; gambling in Wibaux County; etc.)
1969-1970
5 / 22
County attorneys (form letters)
1971-1972
5 / 23
County attorneys (re gambling in Custer County;
Anaconda Taxpayers Association; etc.)
1971-1972
5 / 24
County attorneys (re interdiction laws; gambling in
Fergus and Flathead counties; Whitefish High School dress code; desecration of
American flag with peace symbol; etc.)
1971-1972
5 / 25
County attorneys (re Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement
of Support Act; Glacier County jail conditions; gambling in Granite and Lewis and
Clark counties; Dupuis Lumber Company air pollution in Polson; Helena open burning
violations; David E. Burnham candidacy; etc.)
1971-1972
5 / 26
County attorneys (re gambling in Liberty County; St.
Regis Paper Company water pollution of Libby Creek; Red Bluff Railroad discontinuance;
Missoula County prostitution; jail prisoner medical expenses; birth control at
Missoula Family Planning Center; David E. Burnham candidacy; etc.)
1971-1972
6 / 1
County attorneys (re planning boards; gambling in
Musselshell, Phillips, and Ravalli counties; Livingston prostitution; weed control
districts; Pinesdale incorporation; determination of indigency; Rocky Mountain
Phosphates Inc.; sale of prison land to private citizen; etc.)
1971-1972
6 / 2
County attorneys (re Western Energy Company; Silver
Bow County Metropolitan Sewage Treatment; intimidation of Stillwater County law
enforcement; gambling in Big Timber; Yellowstone River bank protection and rip-rap;
water pollution by Barry O'Leary Inc.; Yellowstone County prostitution; etc.)
1971-1972
6 / 3
County attorneys (re youth offenders enlistment in
military; state chemist as expert witness; Fergus County gambling; death of Bruce W.
Greening; Big Sky of Montana law enforcement; indigent defendants; reservation Indians
in off-reservation liquor and insanity problems; etc.)
1973-1974
6 / 4
County attorneys (re gambling in McCone, Meagher, and
Mineral Counties; proposed criminal inquiry court; Forensic Science Laboratory;
Missoula County water rights dispute; noise pollution; etc.)
1973-1974
6 / 5
County attorneys (re gambling in Pondera, Silver Bow,
and Stillwater Counties; deferred prosecution of some alcohol/drug cases; etc.)
1973-1975
6 / 6-7
County attorneys (re jail conditions in Jefferson and
Lincoln counties; Lakeshore protection regulations; Rosebud County grand jury; etc.)
1977
6 / 8
County clerks and recorders
1967
6 / 9
County commissioners (re per diem and salary changes;
sheriff audits; conflict of interest; creation of SIDs; county surveyor; rural
improvement districts; etc.)
1966-1968
6 / 10
County commissioners (re retirement age; residency;
planning and zoning districts; nepotism; sheriff as stock inspector; secondary road
construction; county welfare board meetings; SIDs; county surveyor and county road
maintenance; equal pay; rural fire districts; official bonds; jail prisoner care;
elections officers; lease of hospital facilities; etc.)
1968-1972
6 / 11
County commissioners (re "Meals on Wheels"; Indians
and law enforcement in Zortman-Landusky area; residency requirements for
commissioners; revenue sharing funds for conservation districts; conflict of interest;
conflict between serving as commissioner and library trustee; classification of road
as public; street maintenance; school board debt; etc.)
1973-1974
6 / 12
County commissioners (re lease of county lands to
grazing districts; conflict between serving as commissioner and state legislator;
county road fund; suit against hospital board members as individuals; commissioners as
airport authority; etc.)
1975-1977
6 / 13
County Prosecutor Services Bureau
1978
6 / 14
County sheriffs
1967-1975
6 / 15
County superintendents of schools
1967-1968
6 / 16
County surveyors
1967-1968
6 / 17
County treasurers
1967-1968
6 / 18
Courts
1971-1976
6 / 19
Coyotes
1976
6 / 20
Crime Control, Board of (re Law Enforcement Academy;
Medical Examiner; Forensic Science Laboratory; Peace Officers Standards and Training
Advisory Council; Governor's Crime Control Commission; etc.)
1972-1974
6 / 21
Crime Control, Board of (re Rimrock Foundation; Crime
Laboratory Bureau; Montana Criminal Law Information Research Center; etc.)
1975-1978
6 / 22-24
Criminal cases (re procedure; includes investigation
into death of Raymond Bay, Ronan)
1965-1968
6 / 25-26
Criminal Investigation Laboratory (includes Board of
Crime Control memos)
1970-1978
6 / 27
Criminal Investigator Program
1970-1971
6 / 28
Dawson Community College
1969, 1972
6 / 29-30
Deaf and Blind, School for the (re easement for park
and playground; also includes "Proposal from the Study Committee of the Great Falls
Area Chamber of Commerce to the School for Deaf and Blind Sub-Committee of the State
Board of Education")
1963-1972
6 / 31
Democratic Party
1977-1978
6 / 32
Denny Driscoll Boys' Home and Ranch
1976
7 / 1
Docket 9, #519 In matter fo Gerald F. Davis (re lewd
and lascivious act upon child)
1962
7 / 2
Docket 10, #340 Leighton L. Alden vs. State Prison
(re habeas corpus and constitutionality of sentencing; #416 State vs. John O. Rindal
(re theft of property from missile site; #431 Phoebe R. Herwig...vs. 39th Legislative
Assembly (re redistricting); #434 Arthur William Rohrer vs. State (re homosexual
relations with minors); #476 In matter of Eldon C. Harris (re disbarment for old
felony conviction); #502 State Water Conservation Board vs. Chris Jorgenson et al. (re
land trade Tongue River Reservoir land for Valentine Project land); #531 State ex rel.
Robert J. Del Priore and David M. Leinwand vs. H.L. Steele President of Eastern
Montana College and Lincoln J. Aikins (re suspension of students for disrespect to
faculty); #565 State, by Board of Land Commissioners vs. Victor Forstrom, Johnson Coal
Company et al. (re coal mining lease); #582 Harold F. Gregg vs. State Prison (re
competency to stand trial)
1965
7 / 3
Docket 11, #109 Douglas Doe vs. State Prison (re
threats against witness); #125 Farmers Union Grain elevator vs. Pheister and Docktor
Inc. (re liability for negligence and fraud); #255 State vs. Clara Thomas and Robert
G. Thomas (re murder); #294 State vs. Clarence P. Shell (re Flying D Ranch); #295
State ex rel. Wade C. Farlin et al. vs. Board of State Prison Commissioners (re
segregating youth under 21 in prison); #296 Marion K. Ruffcorn, executrix of Estate of
William M. Ruffcorn vs. Union Bank and Trust Company et al (re termination of Trust);
#299 Clara Thomas vs. District Court... (re murder); #320 Standly Wagner vs. Montana
Livestock Sanitary Board (re garbage feeding and rendering plant); #327 Frank H.
Dunkle, Montana Fish and Game Commissioner vs. Anaconda Company (re pollution of Clark
Fork River)
1966-1971
7 / 3a
Docket 11, #342 State vs. Ted Reinhardt and Paul
Donaldson (re stolen sheet); #369 United States vs. State of Montana and Shell Oil
Company (re Yellowstone River island); #407 State vs. Stanley Charles Olsen (re
release on bail)
1966-1971
7 / 4
Docket 11, #411 State ex rel. McKinley, Gallatin
County Attorney vs. Paul F. Boylan; #501 State vs. Leland Jensen; #515 State vs.
Donald Allen Bentley Jr.; #532 State vs. Harold Dean Williams; #541 James Kish vs.
State Prison; #550 Russell Leigh Doty Jr. vs. Frank Murray, Secretary of State et al.;
#553 In matter of West Great Falls Flood Control and Drainage District Project; #555
Robert Elmer Click et al. vs. State; #558 Joseph Bert Richardson vs. State Prison;
#562 State vs. Independent Union of Warm Springs; 563 State vs. Solomon Simtob; #571
State ex rel. Dr. Harvey G. Vodicka vs. State Board of Chiropractic Examiners; #583
Robert L. Woodahl vs. State Highway Commission; #584 Van Kyken Drilling Company vs.
State; #596 Charles A. Gray vs. State Prison
1968-1971
7 / 5
Docket 12, #15 Sigety and Eich vs. Montana State
Board of Health (re "Dredge Mining Regulation and Land Preservation Act"); #28 Montana
ex rel. Bennett vs. Dowdall (re proposed First Security Bank of Deer Lodge); #30 In
matter of Barnes-King Development Company (re distribution of assets by trustee)
1968-1972
7 / 6
Docket 12, #56 Montana ex rel. Bell vs. Twelfth
Judicial District et al. (re rights of members of terminated Indian tribe to Bureau of
Indian Affairs services); #58 Associated Students of Eastern Montana College vs.
Montana Board of Education (re sex discrimination in pay); #60 42nd Legislature vs.
Lennon (re apportionment); #69 Montana vs. Warm Springs Hospital Independent Union (re
strike); #70 Peter Kiewit Sons Company vs. Montana Department of Revenue et al. (re
contractors license and gross receipts tax); #71 United States vs. Montana et al. (re
public contractors license tax)
1966-1973
RESTRICTED
7 / 7
Docket 12, #78 Lambros et al. vs. Otto et al. (re
proposed buildings at confluence of Rattlesnake Creek and Clark Fork River, Missoula);
#81 Montana vs. Walter Thomas Cooper (re assaults against highway patrolmen); #83
Larry P. High Pine vs. Montana (re right of Indians to wear long hair in prison); #97
Associated Students of Montana State University vs. Montana (re stadium and physical
education building); #100 Montana vs. Burkland Studs Inc. (re air pollution from tepee
burners); #102 David Edwin Burham vs. Montana (re felony conviction); #104 In matter
of Consolidation Coal Company's Bull Mountain test pit (re mine reclamation); #111
Montana ex rel. Nybo vs. First Judicial District (re contributions to Save Our State)
1970-1972
7 / 8
Docket 12, #166 Huffman vs. Montana Supreme Court et
al. (re "diploma privilege" of graduates of University of Montana Law School)
1973
7 / 9
Docket 12, #167 Confederated Salish and Kootenai
Tribes of Flathead Reservation et al. vs. John C. Moe et al. (tax-free cigarettes of
Indian reservation); #301
1972-1975
RESTRICTED
7 / 10
Docket 12, #149 Huffman et al. vs. Harrison (re
"diploma privilege" of graduates of University of Montana Law School); #151 Montana
vs. Lucero (re competent defense by public defender); #155 Montana vs. First National
Bank and Larish (re appropriation of public money for private use); #157 Montana ex
rel. Cashmore and Burger vs Anderson (re Constitutional Convention, 1971); #161
National Indemnity Company and University of Montana vs. Carey Matovich Yunker et al.
(re insurance of Montana Kaimin board); #168 Doman vs. State Board of Education (re
dismissal of Montana Tech professor); #179 Department of Highways vs. Department of
Agriculture (re diversion of highway trust funds due to nonpayment of State Motor Pool
deficit)
1972-1977
7 / 11
Docket 12, #191 Espeland vs. Teachers Retirement
System (re base year); #192 Gate City Savings and Loan vs. Dowdall et al. (re foreign
association branches in Montana); #253 Woodahl vs. Board of Natural Resources and
Conservation (re right of agencies to hire legal counsel; includes material on suit
against Intake Water Company); #260 Williams vs. Yellowstone County Commissioners (re
justice of peace salaries); #266 In matter of application of American Smelting and
Refining Company ... for varience to hire non-resident attorney to provide technical
assistance); #280 Brown vs. Gallatin County Commissioners (re salaries of county
officials); #285 Montana ex rel. Woodahl vs. Matador Ranch (re ownership by Montana
State University); #Montana vs.l Rhodes and Shields (re interference with juror by
public official)
1971-1979
7 / 11a
Docket 12, #315 Montana vs. glidden (re rape
conviction); #323 Jane Doe vs. Deschamps et al. (re abortion law); #339 Montana vs.
Thomas Powers (re misappropriation of Warm Springs Hospital patients' funds); #374
United States vs. Big Horn Low Line Canal (re water rights); #381 Montana vs. Merseal
(re attempted assault); #383 Board of Regents vs. Thomas Judge (re power to spend
independent of legislature); #391 Sourdough Land and Cattle Company vs. Montana
Educational Broadcasting Commission (re state leasing); #411 Montana vs. Thomson (re
possession and sale of dangerous drugs); #436 John Doe vs. Dolores Colburg (re funding
of physical and psychological services); #446 Montana vs. Harold Armstrong (re Montana
Defenders Project); #478 Montana vs. Emmett (re appeal of sentence)
1971-1979
7 / 12
Docket 14 #6 Harold Armstrong vs. Richard L. Anderson
(re deliberate homicide)
1977-1978
7 / 13-14
Eastern Montana College of Education (re issuance of
bachelor of arts degree; use of student fees to finance buildings; includes articles
of incorporation of Educational Foundation)
1953-1974
7 / 15-18
Education, Board of (includes revocation of teacher's
certificate)
1963-1976
7 / 19-22
Elections (includes memo re Communist Party
candidates on ballot, 1968)
1964-1970
8 / 1-2
Elections
1971-1978
8 / 3
Electrical Safety Board
1965-1972
8 / 4
Emergency planning: floods (re Pondera County Canal
and Reservoir Company; includes memo "Transfer of Reclamation Projects to Settlers")
1964
8 / 5
Employment (includes bylaws of Eastern Montana
Regional Mental Health Board)
1969-1970
8 / 6
Environment (re proposed Tongue River railroad;
Washington weather modification program, etc.; includes memo re enforcement of
environmental laws)
1977
8 / 7
Equal Rights Amendment
1976
8 / 8
Equalization, Board of
1964-1972
8 / 9
Escheated estates
1962-1964
8 / 10
Estates (re Emma Offerdal bequest of Montana
Children's Center; Max Olive Subdivision in Ravalli County; etc.)
1966-1976
8 / 11
Examiner, State/State Bank Examiner (re proposed
Yellowstone Bank, Absarokee)
1967-1971
8 / 12-14
Examiners, Board of
1963-1977
8 / 15
Examiners, Board of: Carson Addition, Capitol Complex
1970-1971
8 / 16
Examiners, Board of: personnel
1974
8 / 17
Extradition
1963-1975
8 / 18
Harrison Fagg (re alleged misuse of public funds re
1970 agreements with Crow Indian Tribe)
1972
8 / 19-21
Federal agencies (re KULR-TV; VISTA; alleged
discrimination against Indians by Missoula Business College; food stamps; proposed
Milk River Rock Festival; Fort Belknap Agency; tribal court orders; funeral homes;
Corporation for Montana Public Television; dishonorable military discharges)
1970-1975
8 / 22
Firearms (re guns)
1971-1973
8 / 23-25
Fire departments (includes correspondence with State
Fire Marshal)
1963-1974
8 / 27
Fire Marshal (includes monthly status reports)
1973-1975, 1978
8 / 28-30
Fish and Game, Department of (re fishing on Rocky
Boy's Indian Reservation; Montana Outfitters and Guides Association; Warden Supervisor
James A. Ford poaching charges; Big Sky of Montana project; Wayfarer Park; Montana
Passenger Tramway Safety Board (ski lifts); women game wardens; Environmental Impact
Statements)
1963-1972
9 / 1-2
Fish and Game, Department of (re Montana Trout
Growers Association; anti-mining article in Montana Outdoors; resident vs. nonresident
hunter fees; etc.)
1973-1976
9 / 3
Flathead Community College
1970-1973
9 / 4
Fluoridation of water
1970-1972
9 / 5-6
Forensic Science, Board/System
1971-1978
9 / 7
Forester, State
1963-1964
9 / 8
Forests (re traffic rules on roads; fees for Anaconda
Company right of way on Alice Creek; etc.)
1967-1974
9 / 9
Galen State Hospital
1973
9 / 10
Gasoline price discrimination
1956-1958
9 / 11-20
Gambling
1959-1977
9 / 21
Gambling: Cascade County
1957
9 / 22
Gambling: Missoula County
1957
9 / 23
Gambling: Silver Bow County
1957-1958
9 / 24
Gambling: research (re Bonanza machines;
coin-operated machines; pangeni; Hickey Law; bingo; Montana vs. Cox; raid in Anaconda;
narcotics investigation coordination; card games in Missoula; history of gambling in
Montana; investigators reports; etc.)
1966-1969
9 / 25
Governor, Office of (re alleged Bozeman police
harassment of political activists; sale of water from Corps of Engineers reservoirs;
women's protective laws; right-to-know; etc.)
1966-1978
9 / 26
Governor's Crime Control Commission
1971-1972
9 / 27
Governor's Mansion construction
1959
9 / 28
Grass Conservation Commission (re Buggy Creek,
Angela, Willow Creek, and Smith Creek grazing districts;
1964-1965
9 / 29
Hail Insurance, State Board of
1965-1971
9 / 30-31
Health, State Board of (re Linda Vista subdivision,
Great Falls; pollution of Flathead Lake and Flathead River; water and sewer facilities
on Indian reservations; cooperative planning for mentally retarded; mine pollution of
Virginia Creek; includes Montana Water Pollution Control Council minutes; and
testimony before Division of Hospital Facilities on care of elderly; nursing homes;
vital registration system; water pollution and sewage regulations; Butte Water
Company; sanitarian for Glacier National Park; Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine,
Boulder)
1963-1966
10 / 1-2
Health, State Board of (re public right to see agency
records; Water Pollution Control Act; flouridation; sterilization and Board of
Eugenics; mental health centers; Big Mountain ski resort sewer system; Northern
Cheyenne Indian Reservation sanitation system; air pollution control; pollution of
Clark Fork River; junk cars as rip-rap; pipeline stream crossings; Indian adoptions;
solid waste disposal; etc.)
1967-1970
10 / 3
Health, State Board of: Thompson Law (re regulation
of hospitals)
1949
10 / 4
Health, State Board of: water pollution (re C & C
Plywood Company, Kalispell)
1965
10 / 5-6
Health, State Department of (re pollution of
Rattlesnake Creek, Missoula by Dennis Washington; logging damage to Polson water
source by Salish and Kootenai Indian tribes; name changes by Indian tribal court; air
pollution by teepee burners; sewer lagoons; Galen State Hospital and Montana Nurses
Association; state refuse disposal law; etc.)
1971
10 / 7
Health, State Department of: Blackfeet Indian tribal
jail
1968
10 / 8
Health, State Department of: enforcement
1968-1969
10 / 9
Health, State Department of: feedlot regulations
1970
10 / 10
Health, State Department of: hospital sprinkler
systems
1971
10 / 11
Health, State Department of: legislature
1968-1969
10 / 12
Health, State Department of: Mussleshell Valley Home
1967-1968
10 / 13-14
Health, State Department of: nursing labor relations
1968
10 / 15-17
Health, State Department of: pollution (includes air
pollution in Billings and Missoula)
1965-1971
10 / 18
Health, State Department of: Rocky Mountain
Phosphates, Inc., Garrison pollution (includes Air Pollution and the Law: a Case
Study, by Rick Vance)
1967-1970
10 / 19
Health, State Department of: water pollution
(includes study of Clark Fork River water quality, 1970)
1967-1971
10 / 20-21
Health and Environmental Sciences, Department of (re
ambient air sampling, Anaconda Company smelter; name changes by Indian tribal court;
conditions in county jails; proposed Huntley Project health center; Criminal
Investigation Laboratory; water pollution; etc.; includes "Air and Water Pollution and
the Feedlot Industry: a Statement of Objectives and Proposed Regulations")
1972
10 / 22
Health and Environmental Sciences, Department of (re
conditions in county jails; abortion; West Gallatin River pollution; Junked Car
Program; nursing homes; etc.)
1973-1976
10 / 23
Hearing Aid dispensers Licensing Board
1969-1974
10 / 24-25
Highway Commission (re Indian Caves Area, Billings;
billboards; etc.)
1964-1972
10 / 26
Highway Patrol Board
1967-1969
11 / 1-13
Highway Patrol Board/Bureau
1972-1978
11 / 14
Highways, Department of
1973-1976
11 / 15
Historical Society
1965-1978
11 / 16
Horse Racing Commission
1967-1972
11 / 17
Human Rights Commission
1978
11 / 18
Identification Bureau (re security and privacy; etc.)
1977-1978
11 / 19-20
Indians (re taxation; state enforcement of health and
sanitation requirements on Indian land; taxation; St. Labre Mission; shared
jurisdiction; alleged violation of civil rights on Flathead Reservation; etc.;
includes minutes of Inter-Tribal Policy Board Alcoholism Conference; memo by charles
F. Moses on jurisdiction in criminal cases)
1964-1967
RESTRICTED
11 / 21
Indians (re weed control; non-Indians on Flathead
Reservation land; flathead Reservation recreational use permit; St. Labre Mission;
Indian motorists; tribal game wardens; cigarette taxation; tribal law enforcement
vehicles taxation; arrest of non-Indians on tribal land; state income tax; Indian
sovereignty; etc.)
1969-1972
RESTRICTED
11 / 22
Indians (re status of Hays and Fort Belknap
Reservation; distribution of Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funds on
reservations; fishing rights on Flathead Lake; Flathead Reservation recreational use
permit; enforcement of strip mine reclamation laws on Northern Cheyenne Reservation;
Citizens Against Discrimination; tribal court orders for psychological evaluation;
American Indian Movement (AIM); St. Labre Mission; etc.)
1973-1974
11 / 23
Indians (re proposed Crow Law and Order Code; Moe vs.
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe; etc.)
1975-1976
11 / 23
Indians (re proposed Crow Law and Order Code; Moe vs.
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe; etc.)
1975-1976
11 / 24
Indians (re eligibility of tribes for coal impact
grants; state taxation of property on reservations; law enforcement problems, East
Glacier; tribal water use codes on Flathead Reservation; licensing of tribal vehicles;
etc.)
1976-1977
RESTRICTED
12 / 1
Indians (re jurisdiction of Blackfeet Tribal Court
over School Disbrict #9; Montana vs. Petronella Spotted Wolf, re Aid for Dependant
Children; law enforcement in Poplar and Lodge Grass; strip mines on Northern Cheyenne
Reservation; etc.)
1978
12 / 2
Indians: Flathead Reservation recreational use permit
1972
12 / 3
Indians: taxation
1976-1977
RESTRICTED
12 / 4
Industrial Accident Board
1963-1972
12 / 5
Informal opinions: index
undated
12 / 6-25
Informal opinions
1957-1978
12a / 1
Information Systems Task Force (re right to privacy;
includes Privacy and Security Task Force minutes; "Inventory of State Records Relating
to People" "The Montana Privacy Act of 1974"; lists of committee members; "An
Introduction to Basic Information Needs in Montana", by William S. Strizich; etc.)
1974
12a / 2-3
Institutions, Board of (includes statement of
Attorney General Forrest Anderson re expulsion of war veteran's widows from State
Soldiers' Home; alleged discrimination against Indians in state institutions; union at
Warm Springs Hospital; insurance; etc.)
1963-1970
12a / 4
Institutions, Custodial (re U.S. Bureau of Health,
Education and Welfare charges of discrimination against Indians at state institutions)
1967
12a / 5-7
Institutions, Department of (re State Prison furlough
program; assault on Prison staff; regional mental health centers; Montana Drug
Program; attorney-client mail; alleged abuse of Pine Hills student; sterilization;
disposition of Montana Children's Center property; alcoholism treatment for
Reservation Indians; collecting from Indian estates; includes list of foreign
nationals incarcerated in State Prison, 1978)
1971-1978
12a / 8-10
Insurance
1963-1972
12b / 1-3
Insurance: Blue Cross
1967-1974
13 / 1
Insurance: Blue Cross
1975-1974
13 / 2
Insurance: Montana Physicians' Service
1967-1972
13 / 3-4
Insurance: Blue Shield/Montana Physicians' Service
1973-1975
13 / 5
Insurance: other
1973-1974
13 / 6
Intake Water Company vs. Yellowstone River Compact
Commission (includes minutes of 21st annual meeting and 20-22nd annual reports of
Commission)
1971-1973
13 / 7
Intergovernmental Relations, Department of (re Dillon
airport administration buildings; Crow Planning Project)
1973
13 / 8
Interlocal agreements (includes list of agreements
approved by Attorney General's Office, 1970)
1969-1976
13 / 9
Inter-Tribal Policy Board (Indian)
1976
13 / 10-11
Investigation, Communication and Identification
Division, Criminal Investigation Laboratory (re gambling; narcotics; etc.; includes
monthly status reports)
1973-1974
13 / 12
Joint Merit System
1971-1972
13 / 13
Justices and judiciary
1978
13 / 14
Justices of the Peace
1969-1975
13 / 15-16
Juveniles (re Judge Lester H. Loble; Loble Law)
1964-1976
13 / 17
Kidnapping (re culpability of conspirators in escape
if escape results in homicide)
undated
13 / 18-20
Labor
1965-1977
13 / 21-22
Labor and Industry, Department of (re validity of
laws for protection of women which conflict with Civil Rights Act of 1964; Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA); Stan Stephens and Industrial Accident Board; etc.)
1967-1976
13 / 23
Labor and Industry: Workmen's Compensation Division
(re IRS summons of legislative auditor's records on Division)
1974
13 / 24
Land Board (re Madison Buffalo Jump; sale of East
Bench Irrigation District land; etc.)
1963-1964
13 / 25
Land Commissioners, State Board of (re meeting items;
includes "Analysis of Conditions of Easements upon State Land to the Anaconda Company"
in Lincoln Heddleston area)
1970-1975
13 / 26
Landlord-Tenant Act (re legislation proposed by James
D. Waltermire)
1976
13 / 27-30
Law enforcement (re McCone County Livestock
Protective Association; legality of arrests based on teletype warrants; arrests of
foreigners; traffic control at Colstrip; corruption in Butte; consitutionality of
electronic surveillance; Montana Legal Services Association; etc.)
1962-1970
14 / 1-3
Law enforcement (re Law Enforcement Academy; Peace
Officers Standards and Training Task Force; Communication Equipment Task Force; etc.)
1971-1976
14 / 4-7
Law Enforcement Academy (re Law Enforcement Academy
Adivsory Council; includes "A Judge's Views on Llaw Enforcement Education and
Training", by E. Gardner Brownlee)
1968-1978
14 / 8
Law Enforcement Act of 1965
1965
14 / 9
Law Enforcement Advisory Council
1973
14 / 10
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) (re
John Birch Society; etc.)
1976
14 / 11-27
Law Enforcement Conference
1957-1975
14 / 28
Law Enforcement Services Division
1977-1978
14 / 29-31
Law Enforcement Teletype System Bureau
1971-1974
15 / 1-2
Law Enforcement Teletype System Bureau
1974-1978
15 / 3
Law Library, State
1977
15 / 4-7
Laws
1963-1976
15 / 8
Leases
1968
15 / 9
Legal services
1967-1971
15 / 10
Legislation (includes "Montana Constitutional and
Statutory Provisions Relating to Bill Drafting" by Jim Johnson)
1957-1959
15 / 11-23
Legislation and legislation proposed
1963-1978
15 / 24
Legislation: Attorney General's proposed law (re
creation of Division of Criminal Investigation and Law Enforcement Standards Council,
and abolishing Law Enforcement Teletypewriter Communications Commission, etc.)
1970-1971
15 / 25
Legislation: Constitutional Convention
1972
15 / 26
Legislation: drafted by Attorney General's Office
1972-1973
15 / 27
Legislation: Forest Service roads (includes
"Imposition of Traffic Regulations upon Forest Development Roads" by Robert L.
Woodahl, 1970)
1965-1970
15 / 28
Legislation: Highway Patrol
1973
15 / 29
Legislation: Registrar of Motor Vehicles
1968-1969
15 / 30
Legislative Auditor
1970-1978
16 / 1-2
Legislative Council (includes Administrative Code
Committee)
1967-1977
16 / 3
Legislature
1975-1977
16 / 4
Library, Montana State
1964-1972
16 / 5-8
Licenses
1963-1972
16 / 9
Licenses: veterinarians
1976
16 / 10
Liquor Control Board
1963-1972
16 / 11-15
Livestock Commission (includes "Cattle Rustling and
the Law" by Charles F. Moses; summary of cases involving Livestock Commission; powers
of livestock inspectors; estalishment of Prior Mountains Wild Horse Range; search and
seizure; etc.)
1963-1973
16 / 16
Livestock Sanitary Board
1967-1970
16 / 17
Local government
1977
16 / 18
Lotteries
1972, undated
16 / 19
McLean Garden Tracts (re White Squaw Island, Missouri
River, Great Falls; includes abstract of title)
1963-1968
16 / 20-26
Marriage and divorce (includes authority of tribal
judge to perform marriages)
1963-1976
16 / 27
Marriage and divorce: laws (includes summation of
Montana divorce laws)
1967-1968
16 / 28
Marriage and divorce: support
1967-1970
17 / 1
Marriage and divorce: support
1971-1972
17 / 2
Medical Examiners, Board of
1970-1971
17 / 3
Miles Community College
1968-1969
17 / 4
Military Affairs, Department of
1976-1978
17 / 5
Milk Control Board
1969
17 / 6-7
Mines and mining (re Free Enterprise Uranium-Radon
Mine, Boulder; Zweifel International Prospectors; etc.)
1963-1976
17 / 8
Mollenberg vs.Rocky Mountain Phosphates, Inc.
(includes report on air pollution, 1964, by Donald R. Goodwin; and "Diffusion
Estimates for Garrison, Montana")
1964-1965
17 / 9-10
Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology
(includes report to Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, 1964)
1967-1974
17 / 11
Montana County Attorneys' Association
1973-1975
17 / 12
Montana Criminal Law Enforcement Research Center
1978
17 / 13
Montana Drug Program
1972
17 / 14-19
Montana State College/Montana State University,
Bozeman (re searches of student rooms; racial discrimination in Bozeman; land
exchange; use of Fort Ellis military reservation; Professor Robert O. Bowen's critique
of Professor Leslie Fiedler; Angela Davis; abortion; Student Guide to Sex on Campus;
Gallatin Council on Health and Drugs; use of university facilities for relgious
services; etc.)
1963-1977
17 / 20
Montana State University, Bozeman: Employee Craft
Council strike (includes master and supplemental contracts and reports)
1972
17 / 21
Montana State University, Bozeman: stadium contract
1973
17 / 22
Montana Territorial Centennial Commission
1961-1966
17 / 23
Montana Territorial Centennial Train (includes
photocopies of related materials, 1964-1969)
1964-1970
17 / 24-26
Montana University System (re The Student as Nigger;
Students for a Democratic Society; search and seizure; Reserve Officers Training Corps
(ROTC); President Robert Pantzer; American Association of University Professors;
Vietnam moratorium; Montana Kaiman; Montana Public Interest Research Group;
confidentiality of student records; etc.)
1966-1973
17 / 27
Morticians, State Board of
1966-1968
17 / 28
Motor Vehicles, Registrar of
1965-1969
18 / 1-3
Motor Vehicles, Registrar of (includes history and
organization; labor contracts; etc.)
1970-1974
18 / 4
Motor Vehicle Division, Registrar's Bureau
1975-1977
18 / 5
Mortgages
1963-1964
18 / 6
Motari, Lawrence J. (re Great Falls police
investigations)
1950-1958
18 / 7-9
Narcotics (includes report on drug problem and law
enforcement at University of Montana; etc.)
1966-1977
18 / 10-11
Natural Resources and Conservation, Department of (re
Utility Siting Act; condemnation by utility company; Yellowstone River Compact
Commission; construction of utility line from Missoula to Hamilton; "Inventory and
Quantification of Federal Water Rights: a Better Way to Federal-State Relations";
Bitterroot Conservation District; state jurisdiction over Indian reserved water
rights; etc.)
1972-1982
18 / 12
Nelson, Wilburn A. (re proposed hearing for convicted
rapist)
1959-1961
18 / 13
Nepotism
1963-1968
18 / 14
Nixon, Richard
1973-1974
18 / 15
Northern Montana College
1972-1973
18 / 16
Nuclear waste legislation
1982
18 / 17
Nurses
1973-1974
18 / 18
Nursing, State Board of (re Montana Nurses
Association; etc.)
1965-1977
18 / 19-27
Official opinions (Vol. 33, #1 thru 37, #67)
1969-1977
18a / 1-10
Official opinions (Vol. 37, #37-163)
1977-1978
19 / 1-3
Official opinions (Vol. 37, #164-179)
1978
19 / 4
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (re taxation of
Indians and Indian tribes for royalty oil)
1966
RESTRICTED
19 / 5
Oil and gas interests: Toole County
1958-1959
19 / 6-7
Pardons and paroles
1967-1974
19 / 8
Pardons, Board of (re shock treatment, etc.)
1978
19 / 9
Peticides (re proposed closed hearing on pesticide
legislation; etc.; includes "Resume of Proposed Pesticide Legislation Developed by the
Legislative Council Subcommittee on Pesticides")
1970, 1973
19 / 10
Pharmacy, Board of
1963-1972
19 / 11
Planning Board State / Department of Planning and
Economic Development
1964-1971
19 / 12
Police Task Force
1976
19 / 13-14
Pollution (re Rocky Mountain Phosphates, Inc.,
Garrison; Anaconda Company request for easements on state lands; Alice Creek drainage
of Blackfoot River; Big Sky of Montana ski resort; gravel washing on Pondera Creek;
etc.)
1970-1976
19 / 15
Poore, Robert A. (re United States vs. Montana;
Kiewit vs. State Board)
1972-1976
19 / 16-18
Pornography (includes draft obscenity bill)
1972-1976
19 / 19
Poultry (re Poultry Improvement Board; etc.)
1956, undated
19 / 20-22
Prisoners
1963-1968
19 / 23
Privacy and security
1978
19 / 24
Professional and Occupational Licensing, Department
of
1973-1978
19 / 25
Prostitution
1969-1973
19 / 26
Prudential Diversified Services (re violations of
Montana Bank Law)
1960
19 / 27
Psychologist Examiners, State Board of
1971-1972
19 / 28
Public Education, Board of
1977
19 / 29
Public Employees Retirement System (PERS)
1964-1970
20 / 1-2
Public Instruction, Department of
1963-1974
20 / 3
Public Service Commission
1969
20 / 4
Public utilities (re Northern Electric Co-op, Inc.;
etc.)
1967-1974
20 / 5
Railroad Commissioners (re Yellowstone Water Company;
etc.)
1971
20 / 6
Real Estate Commission
1964-1972
20 / 7
Reapportionment
1965, 1973
20 / 8
Regents, Board of
1965-1967
20 / 9
Republican Party
1975
20 / 10
Requests for information (re Montana Snowmobile
Association; Posse Comitatus in Lincoln County; etc.)
1964-1978
20 / 11
Residency
1975-1976
20 / 12
Resolutions (re construction of addition to Veterans
and Pioneers Building (Montana Historical Society); Capitol remodelling; ROTC at
universities; Silver Bow County emergency budget; etc.)
1965
20 / 13
Revenue, Department of
1973-1978
20 / 14-19
Revenue, Department of: tax fraud (re failure of
banks to pay assessments on personal property; includes banks in Absarokee, Anaconda,
Big Sandy, Billings, Boulder, Bridger, Browning, Butte, Choteau, Columbia Falls,
Columbus, Deer Lodge, Fairfield, Fairview, Fromberg, Great Falls, Hamilton, Hardin,
Kalispell, Laurel, Libby, Missoula, Plains, Red Lodge, Ronan, Roundup, Sheridan,
Stevensville, Superior, Thompson Falls, Three Forks, Townsend, White Sulphur Springs,
Worden)
1973-1976
RESTRICTED
20 / 20
Riddick, Merrill K.
1968
20 / 21
Roads (re road abandonment)
1963-1964
20 / 22
Ruckelshaus vs. Sierra Club (re Montana and the
Environmental Protection Act)
1973
20 / 23-24
Salaries
1962-1974
20 / 25
Sanders County General Hospital, Hot Springs (re
closure)
1974
20 / 26
School bonds
1966-1967
20 / 27
School district transfer (re proposed transfer of
part of School District 17 Culbertson to School District 55 Brockton to allow Indian
children to go to school on Fort Peck Reservation)
1956
20 / 28
School transportation
1956
20 / 29
School trust lands (re request by Dorothy Bradley and
Center for the Public Interest on Natural Areas Act; includes several reports)
1975-1978
20 / 30
Schools
1963-1964
21 / 1-7
Schools (includes use of public school buildings for
relgious functions; Hutterites; etc.)
1964-1977
21 / 8
Science and Technology Task Force (re Forensic
Medicine Laboratory; Governor's Crime Control Commission; includes "Observations on
Autopsies in Montana based on the Montana Death Certificate", by John C. Wilson; etc.)
1970
21 / 9
Secretary of State
1964-1978
21 / 10
Snowmobiles
1970
21 / 11
Social and Rehabilitation Services, Department of
1973-1978
21 / 12
Social service and conditions (re battered wives;
Montana Association of Churches; etc.)
1977
21 / 13
Soil conservation
1967-1968
21 / 14
Soil Conservation Committee (re weed control
districts; etc.)
1963-1965
21 / 15
Soldiers' Home / Veterans' Home
1963-1968
21 / 16
State-agency retained attorneys
1973
21 / 17
State Hospital / Warm Springs State Hospital (re
assignement of female attendants to violent patients; etc.)
1963-1978
21 / 18
State Hospital: Warm Springs Store lease
1962-1963
21 / 19
State Industrial School for Boys / Pine Hills School
1966, 1974
21 / 20-24
State Lands and Investments, Department of (re
Hutterites; construction of dike on Yellowstone River by Harold Sterhan; Montana Trust
and Legacy Fund; Hill County Water District; Madison Buffalo Jump; legal nature of
state lands; Yellowtail Dam; unsurveyed Yellowstone River islands; proposed amendment
to Enabling Act; oil and gas wells on Agricultural Experiment Station land;
subdivision; etc.)
1963-1969
22 / 1-10
State Lands and Investments, Department of (re
Montana Real Estate Commission; federal condemnation of Frank Lock ranch; subdivision;
mining reclamation; unsurveyed Yellowstone River islands; wilderness status for
Lincoln Ranger District back country; Whitefish Lake landfill; Open Cut Mining Act;
Decker Coal Company; Tri-county Ranchers Association; Northern Plains Resource
Council; Bonneville Power Administration transmission line easement and Green Mountain
Soil and Water Conservation District; oil and gas leases on Coal Creek State Forest;
public access to leased lands; Stillwater Protective Association and Montana
Wilderness Association; U.S. vs. Tongue River Water Users; hunting on state lands;
Alice Creek easement to Anaconda Company; etc.)
1970-1982
22 / 11-13
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Alice
Creek easement to Anaconda Company (re Heddleston Mining District; hearings; includes
"Report on the Heddleston Area Development")
1970
22 / 14
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Civil
Rights clause in clear lists
1968
22 / 15
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Denison
Mines uranium lease
1967
22 / 16
State Lands and Investments, Department of: East
Bench Irrigation District, Beaverhead County
1961
22 / 17
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Goose
Lake, Sheridan County (re navigability)
1963-1965
22 / 18
State Lands and Investments, Department of:
Governor's Committee to Study the Diversified Uses of State-Owned Lands
1968
22 / 19
State Lands and Investments, Department of: leases
and cancellations of leases
1962-1963
22 / 20
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Madison
Buffalo Jump State Monument land exchange
1965-1966
22 / 21
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Mental
Health Center, Billings
1967
22 / 22
State Lands and Investments, Department of:
non-compliance
1978
22 / 23
State Lands and Investments, Department of: oil and
gas unit agreements (re Homestake Sunburst Sand Unit, Coral Creek Deep Unit, and Cedar
Creek Anticlime Unit)
1961-1962
22 / 24
State Lands and Investments, Department of: Sarpy
Creek-Westmoreland strip mining
1973
22 / 25
State Lands and Investments, Department of:
Yellowstone River island (re jurisdiction)
1962-1964
22 / 26
State Printing (re legality of the state doing its
own printing)
1969-1970
23 / 1-2
State Prison (re 1969 prison disturbance; prison
records; Manpower Development Training Act project; living conditions; death of Larry
Cheadle; transfer of old state prison to City of Deer Lodge as historic site;
construction of chapel and slaughterhouse; etc.; includes population statistics,
1963-1967)
1963-1978
23 / 3
State Prison: riot
1959
23 / 4
State Treasurer
1965-1974
23 / 5
Sunset Memorial Gardens of Montana (cemetery)
1971-1973
23 / 6
Supreme Court
1967-1978
23 / 7-9
Taxation (includes county taxation of improvements
and inventory of foreign corporation on Blackfeet Indian Reservation; etc.)
1963-1977
RESTRICTED
23 / 10
Teachers
1964-1968
23 / 11
Teachers Retirement System
1963-1972
23 / 12
Unemployment Compensation Commission
1964-1969
23 / 13
Uniform Commercial Code
1964-1969
23 / 14
Unions (includes "Address by Stanley E. Thompson,
...of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers" AFL-CIO convention, Glasgow,
1968)
1967-1968
23 / 15
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
(re federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974)
1975
23 / 16
University, Montana State / University of Montana (re
Alumni Association; building inspection report; etc.)
1963-1966
23 / 17-21
University of Montana (re The Student as Nigger;
American Association of University Professors; University of Montana Foundation; Deer
Lodge Research Unit drug testing studies; Montana Defender Project; student occupation
of Reserve Officers Traning Corps (ROTC) offices; on-campus military recruitment;
Montana Criminal Law Enforcement Research Center; etc.)
1967-1977
24 / 1
University of Montana: Montana Kaiman (re charges of
pornography)
1966, 1977
24 / 2
Vacation leave
1967-1974
24 / 3
Veterans (re payment of burial benefits for veterans
of peacetime service; War Veterans' Compensation Bonds; World War I veterans; etc.)
1964-1968
24 / 4-5
Vocational rehabilitation (includes Swan River Youth
Forest Camp; etc.)
1964-1968
24 / 6
Voting machines
1958
24 / 7
Voting Rights Act of 1970 (re right of 18-year-olds
to vote)
1970
24 / 8
Water (re state's rights to water within its own
borders; Montana State Water Conservation Board preferential right under federal
reclamation laws; Havre-shelby and Canyon Ferry-Great Falls transmission lines;
groundwater code; etc.)
1950
24 / 9
Water: Hell Creek-Fox Hills Aquifer
1962-1967
24 / 10
Water and water conservation
1963-1978
24 / 11
Water and water courses (re Four-State Legislative
Conference Committee on Water and Related Resources; bitter Root Multiple Use
Association protest of Bitter Root Valley Resource Conservation and Development
Project; Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Waste Water Treatment Act; includes Montana
Water Resources Board report "Proposed Water and Related Land Resources Plan for
Montana")
1967-1970
24 / 12
Water Conservation Board (re Sidney Water Users'
Association; State Land Board's Tongue River land exchange; etc.)
1963-1966
24 / 13
Water Pollution Council (includes memo re
classification of streams for pollution)
1958, undated
24 / 14
Water Resources Board
1971
24 / 15
Welfare
1968-1972
24 / 16-17
Welfare, Department of Public
1963-1970
24 / 18
West Yellowstone Study Commission
1977-1978
24 / 19
Wildlife
1969-1973
Opinions
24 / 20-37
Vol. 37 Nos. 1-179
1977-1978
24 / 38-44
Vol. 38 Nos. 1-79
1979-1980
Press Releases
24 / 45-49
Press releases
1957-1978
Reports
24 / 50-51
Annual reports of private foundations exempt from
income tax (includes Allan Foundation; Anaconda Elks Youth Activity Trust; Bert
Elliott Trust; Casey Family Program; Cobb Foundation; Frank Hervey Cook Estate;
Copulos Family Hospital Trust; Cowley Endowment)
1973-1977
RESTRICTED
25 / 1-6
Annual reports of private foundations exempt from
income tax (includes Dufresne Foundation; Edith L. Brown Scholarship Trust; Edith
Slack Scholarship Fund; Edna M. Ogline Charitable Trust; Edward P. Maronick Charitable
Foundation; Michael M. English; Gary J. Gallagher Foundation; George M. Harris and
Faye Taber Harris Charitable Founcation; Grace Miller Crumley Trust; Great Falls Board
of Insurors Foundation; Griffis Scholarship Foundation; Harvey Carter Scholarship
Trust; Hawkins Scholarship Foundation; Haynes Foundation; Heisey Foundation; Hill
Foundation; Historic Landmark Society of Montana; Holter Research Foundation)
1973-1977
RESTRICTED
25 / 7-12
Annual reports of private foundations exempt from
income tax (includes Ila B. Dousman Trust; J.A. McGowan Foundation; Jack W. Thompson
Foundation Trust; Jane Buttrey Memorial Trust; John R. Tkach, M.D. Educational Trust;
John JW. McKee Educational Trust; Jones Foundation; Joseph N. Blakenbaker Charitable
Trust; Joseph T. Pardee Scholarship Foundation; Julius C. Peters, Jr. Foundation;
Kenneth Christie Educational Fund; Leuthold Foundation; Lloyd Sweet Educational
Foundation; McLaughlin Foundation; Montana Community Foundation; O.R. Rubie
Foundation; Omega Foundation; John Papazian Educational Assistance Turst; Paul Clark
Home; Pearl M. And Julia J. Harmon Foundation-Trust; Peter Nelson Charitable
Foundation)
1973-1977
RESTRICTED
25 / 13-17
Annual reports of private foundations exempt from
income tax (includes Ping Golden Age Trust Fund Foundation; Pioneer Memorial
Scholarship Fund; Ray and Nell Johnson Scholarship Fund of Harlowton High School; Ray
Foundation of Montana; Robert J. Ryan Foundation; Rock Foundation; St. Francis
Episcopal Church Trust under will of Ethel Paterson; Sample Foundation; Schocknecht
Charitable Trust; Stephen J. Maronick Charitable Foundation; Towe Foundation; Treacy
Foundation; Verna Rudman Charitable Trust; W.J. Gallagher Foundation Trust; William E.
Sears Foundation; William M. Ruffcorn Charitable Foundation)
1973-1977
RESTRICTED
25 / 18
Land Board examination made by William A. Brown (re
land grants to Montana for public school purposes, including recommendations to
prevent mismanagement and diversion of funds)
1959
25 / 19-20
Special assistant attorneys general monthly reports
1977-1978
Speeches
25 / 21
Forrest Anderson
1958, 1966
25 / 22
Robert Woodahl
1975
25 / 23
Mike Greely
1977-1980
26 / 1-2
Mike Greely
1978, 1980
Miscellany
26 / 3
Anaconda City Council statement re work reduction by
Anaconda Company
1963
26 / 4
"Office of the Attorney General of the State of
Montana" by Robert L. Woodahl (history; constitutional; statutory; and common law
duties; and theory of office and personal evaluation)
undated
26 / 5
Attorney General's seminar for newly elected
attorneys materials
1958
26 / 6
Contracts for payment of chaplaincy services
1961
26 / 7
Information to attorneys concerning role of Montana
Bar Association with respect to legal aid to poor persons
1965
26 / 8
List of artifacts transferred to Museum
undated
26 / 9
List of maps transferred to Library Map Collection
undated
26 / 10
List of photographs transferred to Photograph
Archives
undated
26 / 11
List of sound recordings transferred to Archives
Sound Recordings Collection
undated
26 / 12
Montana Judicial District probate fees list (includes
comparative minimum fee schedule, Montana Organized Bars)
1964
26 / 13
Montana State University President H.K. Newburn's
report to State Board of Education re investigation of Dr. Morton Borden's speech,
"Backwater of Birchism" (re John Birch Society)
1963
26 / 13a
Municipal bond proceedings manual
undated
26 / 14
Resolution of Disabled American Veterans (DAV) of
Montana to amend the Veterans' Preference Law
1968
26 / 15
"Tips for Witnesses" and "O.E.O." by Charles F. Moses
1964, 1966