Montana State Board Of Hail Insurance Records
Scope and Contents
Records consist of minutes (April 1917-October 1983) of State Board of Hail Insurance meetings; abstracts (1917-1986) of hail insurance policies; hail insurance delinquencies (1917-1932); hail loss records (1917-1991); cumulative recapitulations (1917-1963); and a report (1951) on the operation of the State Hail Insurance Fund, administered by the Board.
Dates
- Creation: 1917-1991
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society 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.
Biographical / Historical
The Montana State Board of Hail Insurance was established under SB 16 by the 1917 legislature. The Board was composed of the State Auditor, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Publicity, and three members to be appointed by the Governor from a list submitted by the various organized farmers' societies. The law, however, did not appropriate funds for the Board, instead providing that operating funds would be deducted out of insurance premiums collected along with November taxes. This meant there was no money for the Board to begin functioning. Attorney General Samuel Ford advised the Board to begin operation without funds while waiting a decision on the constitutionality of the law. The Board got over this initial hurdle and has provided the state's farmers with low cost hail insurance over since.
Extent
22 linear feet
Abstract
These Montana State Board of Hail Insurance records consist of minutes (1917-1983); abstracts (1917-1986) of hail insurance policies; hail loss records (1917-1991); hail insurance delinquencies (1917-1932); cumulative recapitulations; and a report (1951) on the operations of the State Hail Insurance Fund, administered by the Board.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by series.
Physical Location
18:8-2; Oversize 21:5-5; Volumes 119:7-4
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquisition information is available upon request.
- Title
- Guide to the Montana State Board of Hail Insurance Records, 1917-1991
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by MHS Staff
- Date
- 2004
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition)
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository
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