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 to communicate the attorney general’s position on public policy issues.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Boxes 1-2: James Shannon, 1987-1990. Box 3: Thomas Reilly, 1999-2005 (bulk 1999-2000)
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Arrangement: Arranged by agency.

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Scope and Content: As part of a survey of the Commonwealth commissioned by the governor in 1830 in order to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts, geographic locations of base points were determined by calculations made from trigonometrical and astronomical measurements taken in the field.  This series contains two notebooks of data calculated by Simeon Borden from trigonometrical survey field notebooks; an 1838 final report with calculations by Robert Treat Paine, the astronomical surveyor; and an 1846 published monograph of latitude and longitude tables based on the trigonometrical and astronomical work, with partial ms. draft.
Arrangement: Arranged by type of data
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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.  Before it may receive or expend monies, a political committee for county or statewide office must file a statement of organization with the director, including a statement of acceptance signed by the committee’s treasurer, who thereby qualifies for the office (MGLA c 55, s 2).
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) –(2) political action committees, 1982-1995; (3) Wards, towns, cities, 1984-1999; Arranged alphabetically by candidate name; (boxes 1-3) –arranged numerically (box 4) –arranged alphabetically by locality: Democratic (boxes 5-6), Republican (boxes 7-8)
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Scope and Content:  The Office of Geographic Information in Massachusetts (known also as the Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS) and renamed in 2014 as noted below) has been the designation for the unit of geographic information assigned to the collection, storage, and dissemination of geographic data. MassGIS manages, maintains, and provides access through web mapping services and data download to the state’s geographic information database. –MassGIS was developed by the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA). Appropriations bill St 1985, c 140 (item 2050-0200) funded a feasibility study for a geographic information system for environmental data under the Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council division of EOEA. St 1987, c 199 (item 2050-0200) funded the implementation of the geographic information system. The Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council ceased to meet as a body after St 1995, c 38, s 2 (item 2000-0100), and its functions were transferred to the office of the Secretary of Environmental Affairs. St 1998, c 194, s 63 established within the EOEA an Office of Geographic and Environmental Information, the name later shortened as above. –In 2010, the Secretary of Administration and Finance convened a task force to determine the future of MassGIS. Due to its increased focus on non-environmental agencies, the recommendation was made to move MassGIS to the Administration and Finance secretariat’s Information Technology Division (ITD). St 2010, c 56, s 10D transferred the core functions of MassGIS from EOEA to the ITD. In 2014, the ITD was replaced by the Office of Information Technology (MassIT) as the state’s lead executive agency for technology and innovation, at which time the geographic unit was officially renamed Bureau of Geographic Information (St 2014, c 165, s 2/MGLA c 7D, s 5).\

Arrangement: 4 subseries

Notes: Accessioned as State orthophoto files

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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 by category, thereunder alphabetically by physician
Restrictions: Restricted series: Personal and personal medical information restricted by statutory provision; MGLA c 4, s 7, cl 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access, consult repository
Notes: Box 1: Deceased physicians as of Aug. 1987. Boxes 2-3: Physicians no longer in board system as of Aug. 1987.  Files closed, 1990-1997. Boxes 4-9: Deceased physicians. Boxes 10-18: Retired physicians. Boxes 19-20: Resigned physicians
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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 manage procurement and testing of construction supplies of steel.
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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: 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.  Subject files are created to provide background for these activities.
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning commercial, industrial, and mercantile establishments; industrial development; consumer protection; discrimination in employment; mobile home parks; and other matters referred. It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation. Subject files are compiled by and for the committee during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation to create a portfolio of background information, related research, and news concerning topics brought to the committee’s attention through legislation and hearings. –Files contain background materials on subjects concerning proposed legislation drafted and reviewed by the committee. Documents include fiscal and annual reports, brochures, pamphlets, correspondences, and newspaper clippings. Major subjects for the 1970s include gay rights and job security; for the 1980s, discrimination against women in the workplace;  for the 1990s, temporary disability.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
Notes:  Files for 1973-1977, 1987-1989, 1992-1993, 1999. For similar materials for these and other years see: Hearing files ((M-Ar)1118). Pre-1992 files chiefly transferred from that series. Box 1: 1973-1977. Box 2: 1987-1989. Box 3: Box 1989-1993. Box 4: 1999
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