Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report of Minnesota Commission of Public Safety
The powers thus defined were as broad as those Of the Minnesota Commission's, and the Pennsylvania act appropriated for its Commission's use. In many of the states voluntary councils of defense had been or were afterwards organized without legal authority, and were supported by popular subscription, and several states, like North and South Dakota and Montana, later adopted measures framed largely on the Minnesota model. But with the exception afforded by Pennsylvania, Minnesota was not only the pioneer, but the early pioneer in this class of legislation. Some of the appropriations made available for war purposes in other states were as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
