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The Legislative files series (1933-1942.; 1933-1942) includes Brown's voting record in Congress and the record of bills which he introduced. This Legislative series also contains a great deal of material on specific legislation. Such files have been sorted by term of Congress, then by session in that Congress, and finally by the bill number. Although many of these files are on private bills (e.g. naturalization cases, relief of widows of Civil War veterans, etc.), there is also important material here on tax and banking legislation, the Mackinac Straits Bridge legislation, and legislation to amend the Hatch Act. These Legislative files are strongest for the period of 1936 to 1942, essentially the late New Deal and early years of the Second World War. As a rule, these files include a copy of the particular legislation, drafts of the bill, correspondence on the issue, and perhaps some related supplementary material.