Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts is the Commonwealth’s chief legal officer.  The Executive Bureau, which includes the attorney general and personal staff, is responsible for the overall supervision of the legal services provided by the office, for budgetary and personnel matters, and for the development of a uniform and consistent legal policy for the state.  Series is created by the bureau’s constituent office unit to plan and implement conferences, meetings, and workshops with particular constituent groups.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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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 documents stages and methods of construction through photographic prints, including cyanotypes.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically (1-990)/chronologically (1904-1910)
Notes: lacking no. 87-93, 99, 159-160, 115-122, 181, 217, 230, 243, 265, 352, 355, 379-380, 402, 408, 433, 447, 477, 507, 512-513, 523-524, 544, 549, 556, 576-578, 588-589, 594-595, 603, 620, 625, 640, 682, 726, 751, 753, 759-760, 896, 899, 928, 971, 974
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Banks and Banking, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning banks, banking institutions, credit unions, small loans, consumer credit, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Consumer credit recodification files relate to efforts to formulate and pass a consumer credit recodification law governing consumer credit, licensing, and small loan regulations.
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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 document bridge contracting by summarizing existing commission records.
Arrangement: Arranged by bridge part
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Scope and Content: The Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed inquired into the subject of the unemployed in Massachusetts and measures for their relief by the Commonwealth and its municipalities.  To further its investigations the board conducted a survey of correctional institutions and businesses in Massachusetts to determine whether convict labor interfered with manufacturing interests (St 1894, c 238, s 2), as recorded in this series.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Prison returns (2) Manufacturer returns
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Scope and Content: The Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed inquired into the subject of the unemployed in Massachusetts and measures for their relief by the Commonwealth and its municipalities.  To administer its investigations and other affairs the board’s secretary conducted a variety of correspondence; outgoing mail is recorded in this series in letterpress form.
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Scope and Content: Correspondence was created to develop and support policies of those holding the office of Insurance Commissioner, who were responsible for the regulation of insurance business in Massachusettts.  It is composed of two volumes in which outgoing and incoming correspondence and printed materials have been affixed in scrapbook fashion.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject, thereunder chronologically
Notes: These volumes were discovered after the agency moved to new quarters; no other correspondence has survived
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Scope and Content: The special commission investigating the selection of an official state song was appointed in 1958 and reconstituted in 1961 and 1964.  Headed by Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops Orchestra, the commission ultimately recommended “All hail to Massachusetts,” by Arthur J. Marsh, adopted as the state song by St 1966, c 644.  Series was created to administer the commission’s activities, including corresponding with Marsh and others.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives, from the papers of Arthur Fielder, 1983
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Scope and Content: Savings Bank Life Insurance (SBLI) was a state-regulated program for Massachusetts savings bank insurance departments conceived of and promoted by then Boston attorney and later Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.  St 1907, c 561, drafted by Brandeis, authorized savings banks incorporated in Massachusetts, under the auspices of the bank commissioner and the insurance commissioner, to establish insurance departments for the purpose of issuing life insurance policies.  The statute also established the General Insurance Guaranty Fund (GIGF) to provide protection for policy-holders. From 1919-1991 the program was run as the Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance, Dept. of Banking and Insurance.  It was supported successively by the Massachusetts Savings Insurance League (1906) and the Savings Bank Life Insurance Council (1938, incorporated 1947)
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts, September 18, 2001
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Scope and Content: A survey of the Commonwealth was commissioned by the governor in 1830 to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts.  Surveyors worked separately on the trigonometrical and astronomical phases of the project, with each surveyor corresponding directly with the governor.  The correspondence in this series served as a report on the progress of survey work and informed the governor of future work plans.
Arrangement: Arranged by correspondent, thereunder chronologically
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