The Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania Classic Reprint

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Download or read book Committee of Public Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Committee of Public Safety: For the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Activities of official State departments essential to the efficiency of the committee's program have also been placed at its command so that it stands as the one organization having equipment and capacity for carrying out its great and vital work. Thus the committee has succeeded in effecting a concentration of effort not paralleled at any other time in Pennsylvania's history and probably unexcelled by any other State mobilization of potential resources. Though possessed of this effective organization and having already demonstrated impressive efficiency in the operations of a number of its departments, the committee will not, of course, be able to display all that it is capable of achieving until the more active participation of the Government in the great war brings all of its own planned activities into service. Up to the present the military and naval situation and acute food conditions have been of dominating importance throughout the State and nation, with the result that activities have been centered in those departments of the committee organized to cope specifically with problems arising from such sources. This does not imply, however, that the only important work has been confined to military, naval and food conservation programs; all of the departments have been earnestly promoting their various activities. A comprehensive outline of the entire work is the aim of the following review: The duties of the Department of Finance obviously call for no extended explanation. In the initial stages of the committee's work, when it was without funds, $25,000 was provided to enable it to be organized; this sum was repaid out of the $2,000,000 appropriation made by the General Assembly as soon as that appropriation became available. All requisitions for expenditures approved by the Executive Committee of the Committee of Public Safety must of course be finally passed upon by the Commission of Public Safety and Defense of the Commonwealth created by the Legislature; and all accounts of the Committee of Public Safety for Pennsylvania, as an agent of the commission, must be audited by the Auditor-General of Pennsylvania as required by the organic law of the Commonwealth. 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.