Scope and Content: The Metropolitan District Commission (1894-1896) was established to investigate the advisability of establishing a general government for the city of Boston and surrounding cities and towns.  The commission created the journal of its expenses and receipts as a chronological record of the use of its appropriation.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Four pages (September 1894-April 1895) were cut from volume
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Scope and Content: The Corrections Special Unit of the Division of Capital Planning and Operations is responsible for planning, design, and construction of capital projects for correctional facilities.  Record drawings are created by architects and contractors to plan construction of these facilities.
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration of Medicine, established in 1894, was placed within the Division of Registration (Dept. of Civil Service and Registration) in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration and Discipline in Medicine as of 1976, renamed the Board of Registration in Medicine again in 1979.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by letter, thereunder chronologically by year, and then alphabetically by name
Notes: Cover title: Register, Board of Registration in Medicine, no. 1
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Scope and Content: Per St 1778-79, c 49 (May 1, 1779), the Massachusetts General Court authorized the confiscation and sale of absentee estates for the benefit of the government. Resolves 1778-79, c 312  (Sept. 23, 1779) appointed various county committees to sell at public auction estates confiscated from prominent Loyalists named in the resolve. County committee actions, reflected in resolves passed Oct. 1779-May 1780, included sales, suspended sales, leases, and receipts deposited into the Treasury. Some records for these committees are found in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State.  Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 280. –Resolves 1780, Oct Sess, c 95 (Nov. 29, 1780) appointed committees for each county to take charge of absentee real estate and personal effects from the Committee of Sequestration and to sell the same at public auction. Resolves 1783, Jan 1784 Sess,  c 132 (Mar. 16, 1784) suspended sales of absentee estates and directed the committees to settle their accounts by June 10. As the treaty ending the Revolutionary War prohibited further confiscations, St 1783 c 69 (Mar. 24, 1784) specified that any absentee property not already sold or claimed for debt should be returned to its original owner.
Arrangement:  In two subseries: Journal; arranged chronologically, Ledger; arranged by estate, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Title derived from ledger title page; Cover title: Committee for Selling Absentees Estates in the County of Suffolk
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Scope and Content: In 1776 the Massachusetts General Court appointed a Committee of Sequestration to inventory, lease, and otherwise manage estates abandoned by Loyalists, primarily in Boston, and to forward their confiscated goods or proceeds from their auctioning to state authorities, until its charge was withdrawn in 1781. Series documents chiefly the first and last of these functions. –Vol. 1, 1776-1778, includes inventories of personal and real estate by absentee, listing items such as furnishings, buildings, slaves, books, by room, store, or other location where found. Sheriff William Greenleaf is noted in some entries as the seller at auction. Absentees include Thomas Hutchinson, Lewis Deblois, Gilbert Deblois, and Edward Lyde. Cover title: Absentees’ estates. –Vol. 2, 1776, lists articles delivered to the commissary by order of the committee, and from whose holdings they were taken (many from the Debloises or Edward Lyde). Items include tools, compasses, locks, lead, files, paper, and pans. Notations indicate that Commissary General Francis Abbott received items as of July 1, 1776 and Commissary General Richard Devens after that date. The volume is signed by Jonathan Browne, committee chair. Another version of this record is found in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 280, p.121 et seq., along with other records of the committee, such as inventories, receipts, vouchers, and accounts. Caption title: Account of sundry articles sold to the commissary.
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Scope and Content: The Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, chartered by the English Crown in 1629, sat as a General Court, which after the 1630 emigration to America became the government of the Massachusetts Bay colony.  It consisted of freemen (company stockholders), represented from 1634 by elected deputies (as a legislative lower house); and the governor, deputy governor, and assistants chosen by the freemen.  Series consists of public documents created during the period of the colonial charter (1629-1686) and revival of colonial government (1689-1692)–and a few related earlier items–reflecting the legislative, executive, and judicial phases of that government, with the exception of judicial documents specifically pertaining to the activities of the assistants sitting in their judicial capacity as the Court of Assistants.
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Scope and Content: The director of campaign and political finance administers through this office the laws of the Commonwealth regulating political campaigns.  Political committees organized to promote the success or defeat of a question placed before the  people in a state ballot must report the status of their finances to the director sixty days before the election and on the fifth and twentieth days of the months thereafter, until the election and then until the balance in their accounts is zero.  The director is charged by MGLA c 55, s 3 to examine these filings for accuracy and compliance with law, and to investigate violations.  This series contains Campaign finance reports (CPF 102) and correspondence relating to filing or failure to file.
Arrangement: Arranged in chronologically progressive sequences, thereunder by identification number
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1895, c 284 and RL 1902 c 10, s 17, the State House Commission approved state agency requisitions for and the sergeant-at-arms procured new furniture and fixtures for the State House and other state office buildings; they were succeeded in these functions in 1919 by the superintendent of buildings. Registers were created to record contracts awarded for procurement of such furnishings
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume 1, 1915-1918; Volume 2, 1918-1920
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration of Medicine, established in 1894, was placed within the Division of Registration (Dept. of Civil Service and Registration) in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration and Discipline in Medicine as of 1976, renamed the Board of Registration in Medicine again in 1979.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration in Dentistry, established in 1887, was replaced by the Board of Dental Examiners in 1915, placed within the Division of Registration in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration in Dentistry again in 1977.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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