Jack Spain Jr. papersMSS.2021.02Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

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Jack Spain's papers are related to the Local Government Subcommittee of the Commission on Constitution Revision (1966-1971). Spain served as counsel to the Local Government Committees of the General Assembly. The papers include memoranda, legislative materials, official documents, printed materials, and personal documents. They 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. They also had law students who helped with research. Those were Michaela (Micki) Regan, research assistant to Spain; Kent Millikan; Richard (Dick) W. Hogan (Law 1969); Raymond B. Pinchbeck; Daniel A. Winterbottom (Law 1969), and Laurence D. Beck. 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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Jack Spain donated this collection to the University of Virginia Law School archives in September of 2021.

Related Materials

Additional resources documenting the process of revising Virginia's constitution may be found in the following collections at the Arthur J. Morris Law Library: Peter Low papers on the Viriginia Commission on Constitutional Revision (MSS-78-12); A. E. Dick Howard papers on the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Revision (MSS-81-4).

Personal bound volumes with significant research and memorandaArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215586Constitutional Review Commission – Local Government Committee Research Memoranda, Volume I [Statistics, Local Debt, Powers of Local Government]Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215587MSS 2021-02 Box 1Constitutional Review Commission – Local Government Committee Research Memoranda, Volume II [Special Topics, Metropolitan Affairs, Commission on Local Government, Public Views, Bibliography]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215588MSS 2021-02 Box 1Local Government SubcommitteeArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215589Local 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)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155911968MSS 2021-02 Box 2Local 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)Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155921968-1970MSS 2021-02 Box 2Local 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 articlesArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155931968MSS 2021-02 Box 3Local Government Working Papers (Contents of Notebook) (2 folders): f. 2 – Commission: mailing lists, staff, addresses. Memoranda, working papers, agenda, drafts; comments from consultants; correspondenceArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155941968MSS 2021-02 Box 3Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 1 – Commentary for Draft Constitution (1968-10-31), Bill of Rights, FranchiseArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155951968MSS 2021-02 Box 3Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 2 – Division of Powers, Legislative, ExecutiveArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215596MSS 2021-02 Box 3Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 3 – JudiciaryArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155971968MSS 2021-02 Box 3Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 4 – Local GovernmentArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2155991968MSS 2021-02 Box 4Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 5 – Education, CorporationsArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156001968MSS 2021-02 Box 4Constitutional Revision Committee Working Papers (Contents of Notebook): f. 6 – Taxation and Finance, Conservation, Future Changes, ScheduleArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156011968MSS 2021-02 Box 4Commission Department Working Papers (No. 1) – General Counsel, Legislative and Judicial Subcommittee; Taxation and Finance, Executive and State Administration (2 folders)Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156021968MSS 2021-02 Box 4Commission Department Working Papers (No. 2) f. 1 – Taxation and Finance; General Counsel; Executive and State Administration SubcommitteeArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156031968MSS 2021-02 Box 4Commission Department Working Papers (No. 2) f.2 – Corporations; Bill of Rights; Executive and State Administration; Legislature & Judicial Subcommittee; Executive DirectorArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156041968MSS 2021-02 Box 5Commission Department Working Papers (No. 3) – Governor, Commander in Chief; Executive State Administration Subcommittee (2 folders)Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156051968MSS 2021-02 Box 5Local 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, 1971Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215606MSS 2021-02 Box 5Local Government Miscellaneous Legislative Materials – [Article VII – Local Government – Introduction (draft)]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156071969MSS 2021-02 Box 5Local Government Miscellaneous Legislative Materials – [House Joint Resolution No. 13; Senate Joint Resolution No. 13 drafts and printed materials]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156811968-1969MSS 2021-02 Box 6Local 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]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156821974MSS 2021-02 Box 6Local Government Subcommittee Tentative Questions. Reports of Other Committees (2 folders)Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156831968-05MSS 2021-02 Box 6Local Government - Hahn Report. Hahn's files (2 folders). Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156401967MSS 2021-02 Box 6Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Background Facts, Prepared for Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, Richmond, March 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215641Address of Dr. Lorne R. Cumming, Q. C. to the Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, Richmond Virginia, March 15, 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215642"Aspects of State and Local Governmental Finance," by Lorin A. Thompson for Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, March 15, 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215643Metropolitan 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 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215644Memoranda 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 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215645Fiscal 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 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215646'Hahn Commission's Challenge to Virginia: A Program for Action," by Carl Larsen. Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sunday, November 19, 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215647MSS 2021-02 Box 6Proposed Legislation, Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study CommissionArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156521967MSS 2021-02 Box 6Spain Local Government Materials – [CCR Memoranda from A. E. Dick Howard]Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215648MSS 2021-02 Box 7Spain 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, 1968-1969Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215649MSS 2021-02 Box 7Local 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 VirginiaArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156501969MSS 2021-02 Box 7Local 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" Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156511968MSS 2021-02 Box 7Metropolitan Virginia 1967: a brief assessment. A report of the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, April 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215623MSS 2021-02 Box 7Governing 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 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215624MSS 2021-02 Box 7Report of the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission to the Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215622MSS 2021-02 Box 7Metropolitan Virginia: A Program for Action. The Report by the Virginia Metropolitan Areas Study Commission, November 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215626MSS 2021-02 Box 7[Chapters 223 and 224] Code of Virginia. Chapter 34 Virginia Area Development Act, March 13, 1968Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215629MSS 2021-02 Box 7Knapp, John L.: Projections to 1980 for Virginia Metropolitan Areas, Richmond, VA, Governor's Office, Office of Administration/Division Planning, August 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215625MSS 2021-02 Box 7[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)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215628MSS 2021-02 Box 7Norfolk-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 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215630MSS 2021-02 Box 7Miscellaneous Commission DocumentsArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215654Miscellaneous Commission Documents – Report of the Commission to Suggest Amendments to the Constitution to the General Assembly of Virginia, Extra Session, March, 1927Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156551927MSS 2021-02 Box 8Miscellaneous Commission Documents – Parallel Tables Comparing Present and Revised ConstitutionsArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156561969-05-05MSS 2021-02 Box 8Miscellaneous Commission Documents – [Article Seven: Local Government], undatedArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215657MSS 2021-02 Box 8Miscellaneous Commission Documents] – "Revising Virginia's Constitution: Summary of Principal Actions Taken by the General Assembly at the 1969 Special Session,"; Senate Joint Resolutions No. 24, No. 25, No. 26, No. 27, No. 28, No. 29 (1969-04-25); Memorandum: Possible Financial Benefits to City of Richmond if New Constitution Is Adopted, [copy, undated]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156581968-1969Miscellaneous Commission Documents – Howard, A. E. Dick and Tim Finchem: "Virginia Votes for a New Constitution," Virginia Western Community College and Virginia State Agency for Title I, 1973Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156591973MSS 2021-02 Box 8Miscellaneous Commission Documents – [drafts and text of different sections]Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156601968MSS 2021-02 Box 8Copies of Howard's notes during meetings of the Commission on Constitutional RevisionArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215661MSS 2021-02 Box 8Public Views on Virginia ConstitutionArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215662Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 1 – letters and other communications from individuals, group organizations, businesses, expressing views on Constitutional revisionArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156631968MSS 2021-02 Box 9Public 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); draftArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156641968MSS 2021-02 Box 9Public 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)Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156651965-1968MSS 2021-02 Box 9Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 3 – copies of memoranda and statements of public hearings giving views on constitutional revisionArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215666MSS 2021-02 Box 9Public Views on Virginia Constitution No. 4 – copies of letters expressing views on Virginia's ConstitutionArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/2156671968MSS 2021-02 Box 10Printed MaterialsArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215668Local Government – Intergovernmental Relations Publication – research printed materialsArchival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215669MSS 2021-02 Box 10Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: Alternative Approaches to Governmental Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas, June 1962Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215670MSS 2021-02 Box 10Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: Governmental Structure, Organization and Planning in Metropolitan Areas. July 1961Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215672MSS 2021-02 Box 10Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: Factors Affecting Voter reactions to Governmental Reorganization in Metropolitan Areas. Summary Report M-15. September 1965Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215673MSS 2021-02 Box 10Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: New Proposals for 1969. ACIR State Legislative Program. Washington, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, June 1968Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215671MSS 2021-02 Box 10Committee for Economic Development. "Modernizing State Government." A Statement by the Research and Policy Committee, July 1967Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215674MSS 2021-02 Box 10Committee for Economic Development. "Modernizing Local Government to Secure a Balanced Federalism." A Statement on National Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development, July 1966Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215675MSS 2021-02 Box 10Metropolitan 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.Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215676MSS 2021-02 Box 10Unshackling 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. 1270Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215677MSS 2021-02 Box 10Constitution of Virginia, undated [photocopy with some annotations]Archival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215678MSS 2021-02 Box 10Financing Virginia's Future. Booklet prepared as a public service by the Virginia Industrialization Group. [J. Harvie Wilkinson, Jr. Chairman], undatedArchival Resource KeyPrevious Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215679MSS 2021-02 Box 10Legislative Drafting Research Group of Columbia University: A Selective Bibliography on State Constitutional Revision (Second Edition). New York, National Municipal League, 1967Archival Resource Key/repositories/4/archival_objects/215680MSS 2021-02 Box 10