Jack Spain, Jr. Records on the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision Local Government Committee, MSS.2021.02

Scope and Contents

This collection of 10 archival boxes (2 cubic ft.) of papers related to the Local Government Subcommittee of the Commission on Constitution Revision (1966-1971) was donated to the Law Library in September of 2021 by Jack Spain, counsel to the Local Government Committees of the General Assembly. The papers were received in 5 oversized boxes that were very well organized. The archives maintained the exact organization.

Members of the Local Government Committee were UVA Law Dean Hardy C. Dillard, Judge Albert Bryan, Jr. and Jack Spain who served as counsel to the committee. They also have "several bright law students who helped on research." Those were Michaela (Micki) Regan, research assistant to Mr. Spain; Kent Millikan; Richard (Dick) W. Hogan), UVA Law '69; Raymond B. Pinchbeck; Dan Winterbotton, Jr., and Laurence D. Beck. Mr. Spain describes the process of the committee: "The study Commission started its process with public hearings, then would meet generally at the Board Head Inn in Charlottesville. The full commission would meet – maybe once a month, and the committees in between. – We exchanged written memoranda among the members, and each committee would make a report in writing before each commission meeting." [See memo from Jack Spain to Randi Flaherty, September 17, 2021].

The Local Government Subcommittee studied population, valuation in towns and cities, revenue, taxes, local authorities, local debt, local legislation and local autonomy, special legislation, statutory authority, limitations, annexation of territory, rights of utilities, liability of counties, air-rights, planning districts, metropolitan government, powers of Commission on local government, etc.

In addition to the Local Government files there is memoranda and documents from other committees of the Commission for Constitutional Revision, the Hahn Report, public views documents and printed materials.

Container List

Local Government Subcommittee

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Local Government – Maryland Papers. [Copies of working papers from the Maryland Constitutional Convention Commission related to local government.]. Reports I – 7 of the Committee on Political Subdivisions and Local Legislation (March – December 1966)
1968
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Local Government – State Constitutions. [Memoranda, research materials, drafts, correspondence, news-clippings, other printed materials. Included is: Grad, Frank P.: "The Drafting of State Constitutions. Working Papers for A Manual," New York, National Municipal League, 1967 (2 folders)
1968-1970
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Local Government Working Papers (Contents of Notebook) (2 folders): f. 1 – Complete List of Sections in Existing Constitution Covered by this Report; Relevant Documents: Assessed Values in Towns of More than 3,500: 1966; Local Debt in Counties and Cities in Virginia: 1966; List of research papers prepared by staff on the Local Government Committee; memoranda and correspondence between Jack Spain, Judge Albert V. Bryan and [UVA Law School] Dean Hardy Dillard; also memoranda sent to Dick Howard and received from Laurence D. Beck; correspondence with George C. Palmer, II from Piedmont Tractor Supply; News Letter, Institute of Government, University of Virginia, vols. 43-44, 1967 – 1968; printed articles
1968
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Local Government Working Papers (Contents of Notebook) (2 folders): f. 2 – Commission: mailing lists, staff, addresses. Memoranda, working papers, agenda, drafts; comments from consultants; correspondence
1968
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Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 1 – Commentary for Draft Constitution (1968-10-31), Bill of Rights, Franchise
1968
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Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 2 – Division of Powers, Legislative, Executive
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Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 3 – Judiciary
1968
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Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 4 – Local Government
1968
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Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 5 – Education, Corporations
1968
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Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 6 – Taxation and Finance, Conservation, Future Changes, Schedule
1968
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Commission Department Working Papers (No. 1) – General Counsel, Legislative and Judicial Subcommittee; Taxation and Finance, Executive and State Administration (2 folders)
1968
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Commission Department Working Papers (No. 2) f. 1 – Taxation and Finance; General Counsel; Executive and State Administration Subcommittee
1968
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Commission Department Working Papers (No. 2) f.2 – Corporations; Bill of Rights; Executive and State Administration; Legislature & Judicial Subcommittee; Executive Director
1968
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Commission Department Working Papers (No. 3) – Governor, Commander in Chief; Executive State Administration Subcommittee (2 folders)
1968
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Local Government Miscellaneous Legislative Materials – [memoranda, correspondence, drafts, printed materials]. Copies of letters from John M. McGurn (Virginia Electric and Power Company) to William B. Hopkins, Richard Maclin Smith and William F. Parkerson, Jr. (1969-03); Memorandum re Regional Government (undated); A. E. Dick Howard Addendum to "Summary of Principal Actions Taken by the General Assembly at the Special Session 1969 in Revising the Virginia Constitution," ( 1969-04-24); correspondence with Weldon Cooper (UVA Institute of Government), (1971-02-26); [Virginia] Senate Joint Resolution No. 23 (1969-04-25); Report of the Commission on State and Local Revenues and Expenditures and Related Matters to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia, Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1963; Memorandum re " Commentary on Article VII: Local Government," (1970-12-21), 1969, 1971
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Local Government Miscellaneous Legislative Materials – [Article VII – Local Government – Introduction (draft)]
1969
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Local Government Miscellaneous Legislative Materials – [House Joint Resolution No. 13; Senate Joint Resolution No. 13 drafts and printed materials]
1968-1969
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Local Government Miscellaneous Legislative Materials – Spain, Jack: "The General Assembly and Local Government: Legislating a Constitution," University of Richmond Law Review, Vol. 8:387 (1974) [photocopy of article]
1974
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Local Government Subcommittee Tentative Questions. Reports of Other Committees (2 folders)
1968-05
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Local Government - Hahn Report. Hahn's files (2 folders).
1967
- Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Background Facts, Prepared for Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, Richmond, March 1967
- Address of Dr. Lorne R. Cumming, Q. C. to the Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, Richmond Virginia, March 15, 1967
- "Aspects of State and Local Governmental Finance," by Lorin A. Thompson for Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, March 15, 1967
- Metropolitan Virginia - The Challenge Ahead. A working paper prepared for the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission by Harold F. Wise/Robert Gladstone & Associates. Washington, D. C., April 1967
- Memoranda on Proposed Legislation. Supplementary Working Papers Prepared for the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission by Harold F. Wise/Robert Gladstone & Associates. Washington, D. C., May 1967
- Fiscal Prospects and Problems of Virginia Metropolitan Areas. An Explanatory Study Prepared for the Metropolitan Areas Study Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Washington, D. C. Economic Associates, Inc. May 1967
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'Hahn Commission's Challenge to Virginia: A Program for Action," by Carl Larsen. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sunday, November 19, 1967
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Proposed Legislation, Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission
1967
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Spain Local Government Materials – [CCR Memoranda from A. E. Dick Howard]
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Spain Local Government Materials – Organization and Management of the State of Virginia. Report on a Survey made for the Governor and his Committee on Consolidation and Simplification, Prepared by the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, January 1927; Virginia Bar News, Vol. 17, No. 4, April 1969; Rural Affairs Study Commission: "A Report to the Governor and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia," December 1969; drafts, 1927, 1968-1969
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Local Government - Commonwealth of Virginia The Proposed Constitutional Amendments agreed to at the 1969 Extra Session of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, are published pursuant to Section 196 of the Constitution of Virginia and Sections 30-13 and 30-19 of the Code of Virginia
1969
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Local Government – Legislative Materials. [copy of Memorandum of January 20th by John Boatwright entitled "Matters in Proposed Constitution That Appear to Concern Railroads,"; copy of "Summary Revision of Report of Constitutional revision Commission of Virginia Prepared for Southern Railway Company"
1968
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Metropolitan Virginia 1967: a brief assessment. A report of the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, April 1967
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Governing the Virginia Metropolitan Areas: An Assessment. A Report by the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, May 1967 Metropolitan Virginia 1967: a brief assessment. A report of the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, April 1967
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Report of the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission to the Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1967
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Metropolitan Virginia: A Program for Action. The Report by the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, November 1967
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[Chapters 223 and 224] Code of Virginia. Chapter 34 Virginia Area Development Act, March 13, 1968
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Knapp, John L.: Projections to 1980 for Virginia Metropolitan Areas, Richmond, VA, Governor's Office, Office of Administration/Division Planning, August 1967
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[Virginia] House Joint Resolution No. 57 (1968-02-01); [Virginia] House Bills No. 545, No. 546, No. 547 (1968-02-01; Senate Bill No. 266 (1968-02-01)
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Norfolk-Portsmouth Metropolitan Area. Cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Suffolk, and Nansemond County Projections & Economic Base Analysis [Study]. Richmond, VA Governor's Office/Office of Administration/Division of Planning, June 1967

Public Views on Virginia Constitution

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Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 1 – letters and other communications from individuals, group organizations, businesses, expressing views on Constitutional revision
1968
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Public Views on Virginia Constitution [Loose materials found in binder No. 1] – handwritten notes; Point Covered by Senator Adelard L. Brault of Fairfax in his Representation to the Constitutional Revision Committee in Alexandria, July 18, 1968; Statement presented to the Governor's Committee on Constitutional Revision by the Association of Independent Colleges in Virginia (1968-07-12); Resolution Adopted by the Trustees of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (1968-07-06); Recommendations by the Executive Board of the Virginia Association of Counties of Major Changes to be Made in the Constitution of Virginia (1968-07-11); draft
1968
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Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 2 - letters and other documents giving views to the constitutional revision. Included documents are: Dure, Leon: "A petition to the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision on "Freedom of Assembly"; Arlington County Democratic Committee (1968-06-24); Petition of the Norfolk Foundation for Revision of Section 183 of the Constitution of Virginia (1968-06-28); Comments on Government of Fairfax County by The Citizens Property Rights Group of Fairfax, VA (1966-01-11); Statement of Stella D. Neiman on Education Provisions of Constitution of Virginia (undated); A Petition to the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision on Universal Education (undated); UVA Thomas Jefferson Center for Studies in Political Economy; Report on the Virginia Plan for Universal Education, (1965-03)
1965-1968
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Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 3 – copies of memoranda and statements of public hearings giving views on constitutional revision
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Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 4 – copies of letters expressing views on Virginia's Constitution
1968

Printed Materials

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Local Government – Intergovernmental Relations Publication – research printed materials
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: Alternative Approaches to Governmental Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas, June 1962
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: Governmental Structure, Organization and Planning in Metropolitan Areas. July 1961
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: Factors Affecting Voter reactions to Governmental Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas. Summary Report M-15. September 1965
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Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: New Proposals for 1969. ACIR State Legislative Program. Washington, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, June 1968
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Committee for Economic Development. "Modernizing State Government." A Statement by the Research and Policy Committee, July 1967
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Committee for Economic Development. "Modernizing Local Government to Secure a Balanced Federalism." A Statement on National Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development, July 1966
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Metropolitan America: Challenge to Federalism. A Study Submitted to the Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, October 1966. 89th Cong. 2d. Sess. H.
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Unshackling Local Government (Revised Edition). A Survey of Proposals by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Twenty-Fourth Report by the Committee on Government Operations, April 2, 1968. 90th Cong., 2d. Sess. House Report No. 1270
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Constitution of Virginia, undated [photocopy with some annotations]
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Financing Virginia's Future. Booklet prepared as a public service by the Virginia Industrialization Group. [J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Chairman], undated
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Legislative Drafting Research Group of Columbia University: A Selective Bibliography on State Constitutional Revision (Second Edition). New York, National Municipal League, 1967

Jack Spain, Jr. Records on the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision Local Government CommitteeMSS.2021.02

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