Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Education, Arts, and Humanities (Joint Committee on Education to 1988), a standing committee of the Massachusetts General Court, considers all matters concerning education and other matters referred.  It conducts hearings on bills, recommends actions on legislative proposals, and proposes legislation.  Committee files contain copies of proposed bills; hearing agendas, schedules of bills, transcripts of testimony, and notes taken by committee members; also correspondence, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to hearings and proposed legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Government Regulations, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning public utilities, gambling, registration of various trades or professions, issuance of licenses for sale of alcoholic beverages, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation, as documented in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by subject and then by chamber/bill number
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Social Welfare was first constituted as a standing committee of the General Court as of 1968, and was renamed Joint Committee on Human Services and Elderly Affairs, effective 1975.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision; for conditions of access consult repository; MGLA c 4, s 7, cl 26(c) and c 66A
Notes: Files are as preserved by Jack H. Backman, Senate chair of the joint committee and its predecessor, 1971-1987.  Transferred with his personal political and legislative files and related reference materials to the College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Fall 1987, as the Backman Human Service Collection.  Presented to Archives, April 1995; transferred, May 1995
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Public Service, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning salaries, civil service, and retirement of public employees (including retirement of but excluding salaries of members of the judiciary); collective bargaining for state employees and other public employees; and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation, as documented in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
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Scope and Content: The Committee on Ways and Means, a standing committee of the Senate,  considers all legislation affecting the finances of the Commonwealth and other referred matters, as documented in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
Notes: Files for 1976-1977, 1983 only
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Scope and Content: The Revolutionary War Bicentennial Commission (or Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission) was established in 1964 to plan the observance by Massachusetts of the bicentennial of the historic events preceding the Revolutionary War.  As such it helped to prepare, arrange, and coordinate bicentennial events throughout the state.  Series was created to administer application for and funding of matching grants for cities and towns for bicentennial projects and activities (awarded by the Executive Office of Education, per St 1974, c 686) and to organize and oversee events, contests, and programs sponsored by the commission.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from the Executive Office of Communities and Development
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to Resolves 1969, c 61, a special commission consisting of three members of the Senate, seven members of the House of Representatives, the superintendent of schools of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and twenty-two others was charged with examining the degree of need for granting public aid to nonpublic primary and secondary schools and reporting to the General Court before the first Wednesday of January 1971.  This set of unofficial files, maintained by the archdiocese during the commission’s study, consists of minutes of meetings, transcripts of public hearings, surveys and reports, correspondence, and newspaper clippings and other printed material.
Notes: Records were transferred to the Archives from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
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Scope and Content: In Nov. 1775, the Massachusetts General Court established a committee to supply wood and hay to the Continental Army; in fact, since a separate committee was later appointed to administer a resolve directing towns to supply hay, committee records pertain only to wood.  Since wood deliveries were complete by the spring of 1776, subsequent records relate to financial transactions only.
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Dept. of Community Affairs, established in 1968, was followed successively in 1996 by the Division of Housing and Community Development (Dept. of Economic Development) and in 1997 by the Dept. of Housing and Community Development.
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Scope and Content: The Cambridge Bridge Commission was established in 1898 to administer construction of a bridge spanning the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge, to be known as the Cambridge (later Longfellow) Bridge.  Series was created to prepare for determination of proportion of construction costs to be paid by the Boston Elevated Railway Company to Boston and Cambridge.
Arrangement: Arranged by bridge part
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