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Finding Aid for the Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Records, 1947-1959


MS-0827

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, August 10, 2007.

Summary Information
Title: Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Records

Date/Date Range :   1947-1959

Extent: 1.5 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses records documenting an attempt to consolidate Knoxville and Knox County in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Call number: MS-0827

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
The Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Papers were given to the library in 1975 by the Municipal Technical Advisory Service of the University of Tennessee.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Records, MS-0827. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of one box divided into seven series:

  1. Series I: Correspondence
  2. Series II: Financial Records
  3. Series III: Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Materials Information Relating Directly To The Charter
  4. Series IV: Studies, Addresses, and Papers
  5. Series V: General Information
  6. Series VI: Newspaper Clippings and Publicity for Metropolitan Government Charter Commission
  7. Series VII: Miscellaneous Materials

Biography / History

William Blount, then governor of the Territory South of the River Ohio, created Knox County from parts of Greene and Hawkins Counties on June 11, 1792. Knoxville, founded by James White in 1786, has been the county seat since the County's creation. Knoxville also served as the capital of Tennessee from 1796 to 1812 and again from 1817 to 1818. Today, Knox County occupies 509 square miles and lies in the middle of East Tennessee's Great Valley.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection houses records documenting an attempt to consolidate Knoxville and Knox County in the late 1950s and early 1960s. These records include general correspondence files, notices on meetings, the financial records of the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission, papers documenting the Charter itself (including legal opinions, suggestions, approval letters, approved sections, preliminary drafts, meeting minutes, studies, addresses, and papers), newspaper clippings (documenting the proposal of the Charter, the controversy of consolidation, and the defeat of consolidation), charts, topographic maps, and the names and addresses of Commission members.

Subject Terms

  • Knoxville (Tenn.) -- Charters.
  • Knoxville (Tenn.) -- Politics and government.
  • Knox County (Tenn.) -- Charters.
  • Knox County (Tenn.) -- Politics and government.
Contents List
   

Series I: Correspondence
Box   1     Folder   1    
Correspondence with members of the Commission
Box   1     Folder   2    
Correspondence--Notices of Meetings and Notes on Meetings
   

Series II: Financial Records
Box   1     Folder   3    
A List of Knoxville Bonds
Box   1     Folder   4    
Financial Data--Payroll and Budget Notes
Box   1     Folder   5    
Receipts--Petty Cash (to be given to Central Accounting for reimbursement)
Box   1     Folder   6    
Invoices--All Expenses Except Petty Cash
Box   1     Folder   7    
Petty Cash Receipts and submission of receipts
Box   1     Folder   8    
Office Expenses for the Charter Commission
Box   1     Folder   9    
Printing File (quotes on price of printing per page)
Box   1     Folder   10    
Holston & Hodge Printing Co. printing bids with examples of paper
   

Series III: Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Materials Information Relating Directly To The Charter
Box   1     Folder   11    
Requests For Summary of the Charter Booklet
Box   1     Folder   12    
General Correspondence relating to Charter
Box   1     Folder   13    
Requests for copies of the Charter
Box   1     Folder   14    
Requests for carbon copies of the final Charter
Box   1     Folder   15    
Judge's Opinions Regarding Clauses on Courts
Box   1     Folder   16    
Charter Correspondence relating to drafting the charter and consolidation
Box   1     Folder   17    
Suggestions on the Charter--rewrite suggestions, submitted comments and questions
Box   1     Folder   18    
Request for and granting of extension of time to file Charter
Box   1     Folder   19    
Charter Minutes File of minutes of the meetings
Box   1     Folder   20    
Charter Approval File--form letter to approve Charter with
Box   1     Folder   21    
Legal Opinions of the Charter
Box   1     Folder   22    
Approved Charter Sections
Box   1     Folder   23    
Draft For The Charter Changes
Box   1     Folder   24    
1. 01 Consolidation of City & County: Creation of Metropolitan Government
Box   1     Folder   25    
Charter Material--Articles of the Charter
Box   1     Folder   26    
Preliminary Draft of the Charter
Box   1     Folder   27    
Minutes of the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission meetings
   

Series IV: Studies, Addresses, and Papers
Box   1     Folder   28    
Metropolitan Problems--paper titled Metropolitan Headaches (typed and handwritten)
Box   1     Folder   29    
Codes for Bureaucracy Study (handwritten)
Box   1     Folder   30    
Knoxville Sewer Study 1960 (typed)
Box   1     Folder   31    
Papers belonging to Mr. Elmore--papers concerning the Commission
Box   1     Folder   32    
Seminar on Personnel Problems (typed)
Box   1     Folder   33    
Study of Sanitary Sewers for Knox County 1959 (typed)
   

Series V: General Information
Box   1     Folder   34    
General City-County Charter Commission Information
Box   1     Folder   35    
Cooperative Relationships (the Commissions work with other organizations)
Box   1     Folder   36    
Bureau Projects (General File)
Box   1     Folder   37    
Bureau Library
Box   1     Folder   38    
Mr. Thomason's Suggestions to the Commission
Box   1     Folder   39    
Atkin's Retirement and Pension Plan
Box   1     Folder   40    
Data on Councils and Data on Chairman
Box   1     Folder   41    
Metropolitan Government Charter Commission Pending File--Dr. Greene
Box   1     Folder   42    
Chapter 120 of Public Acts of 1957, Senate Bill no. 233
Box   1     Folder   43    
Knoxville Utilities Board amendments
   

Series VI: Newspaper Clippings and Publicity for Metropolitan Government Charter Commission
Box   1     Folder   44    
Publicity letters for the Charter Commission
Box   1     Folder   45    
Nashville Charter newspaper clippings and booklets
Box   1     Folder   46    
Local Newspaper Reactions to the Charter
Box   1     Folder   47    
Press Clippings for the Charter
   

Series VII: Miscellaneous Materials
Box   1     Folder   48    
Miscellaneous Charts, Topographic Maps, and Tables of the area
Box   1     Folder   49    
Names and Addresses of Commission Members