1839- Reports of the Attorney General of the Maine: annual, 1839–, and between 1893 and 1966 biennial, published in Augusta by the State Printer. Of
note, the office of Attorney General in Maine was created by the Constitution of 1819. A statute of 1839 established the requirement for an annual
report by the Attorney General to the Governor and Council in the month of December, in which he often made interesting recommendations for changes in
the civil and criminal law. In 1899/1900 the custom began of issuing biennial reports, although this practice was not authorized by statute until 1931.
There are no published reports present for the years 1839, 1842-45, 1848, 1853-58, 1918-24 and 1933-40. However, manuscript copies for these years
may exist in the State files, and LLMC is attempting to obtain copies for scanning. In many of the states the original paper versions of the attorney
generals’ reports and opinions were sometimes published together, sometimes separately, and in some cases, as in Maine, they were published as a
separate section within the annual/biennial report. To minimize confusion in its online offerings, LLMC has chosen to group all of the U.S. state attorney
generals’ reports and opinions in two separate series for each state. For the Maine A.G. Opinions, see the separate Opinions series elsewhere on this
site. (Documents in the Early State Records collection were digitized from a microfilm copy of title originally held by the Library of Congress).
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