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.  It was to cooperate with county and municipal authorities in devising methods of distinguishing confirmed vagrants from those willing to work (St 1894, c 239, s 4).  To further its investigations in this area, the board tracked the flow of tramps lodged overnight by police in Massachusetts towns, as recorded in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by month, thereunder by town
Notes: Collated 1895
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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 held hearings at which private and public sector employers and union officials from throughout the state testified in response to a series of set questions regarding levels of employment/unemployment and wages/trade-union benefits paid, 1892-1894, as recorded in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by hearing date
Notes: Lacks pages 222-295, 1531-1552, 1611-1688
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Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts was authorized by Resolves 1930, c 4 and c 13 to make an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the pension awarded to Oliver B. Garrett as a member of the Police Department of the city of Boston (following an accident on August 2, 1927) and related matters, and to conduct public hearings thereon.  Series consists of transcripts of those hearings, including testimony and exhibits.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: As chief legal officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the attorney-general, at that time Henry C. Attwill, participated in and accrued files relating to the prosecution of Elizabeth M. Skeels, tried in 1919 for the murder of Florence M. Gay, who died of arsenical poisoning in 1917.  Skeels was acquitted.  Series contains trial transcript (Essex Superior Court Criminal Session, Judge Webster Thayer presiding), depositions, autopsy reports, and other court exhibits and filings, as well as correspondence and background materials on court cases stemming from similar circumstances.
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Scope and Content: The Board of Gas Commissioners, established in 1885, was renamed Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners in 1889.  That body was abolished in 1919, when its functions were combined with those of the Public Service Commission in the Dept. of Public Utilities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes:  Volumes 1-5: Proceedings. Volume 6: Exhibits
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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 administer transition in the office following a general election.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by transition, thereunder by office unit/topic
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Scope and Content: A survey of the Commonwealth was commissioned by the governor in 1830 in order to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts.  For the trigonometrical phase of the survey, teams took angle measurements from primary and secondary stations and recorded them in field notebooks ((M-Ar)764X).  This series, consolidating measurements from those notebooks, consists of computations of the triangles establishing the exact location of the stations.
Arrangement: Arranged by station number
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Scope and Content: The Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code, established in 1953, submitted a report to the General Court in Jan. 1954, consisting of draft legislation (1953 H 2400) eventually adopted as St 1957, c 765 (MGLA c106).  Included with the report was this appendix, consisting of official comments of the commission that were in fact those of the code’s sponsoring organizations, the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.  Since the comments were eventually to be included in the annotated version of Massachusetts General Laws, this copy of the appendix,  consisting of edited printed copy, was filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives on Jan. 27, 1954 but not reprinted as part of the commission report.
Notes: Title page: Appendix B to Report to the Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code
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Scope and Content: Since 1919 the Dept. of Public Utilities has been responsible for regulating Massachusetts gas, electric, water, telecommunications, and transportation utility companies (currently pursuant to MGLA c 25).  It requires annual returns in the form of financial statements from these companies, specifically per St 160, s 242 (railroads), St 161, s 138 (street railways), St 164, s 63 (municipal gas and electric), St 164, 83 (gas and electric), St 165, ss 2, 7 (water), and St 166, s 11 (telephone and telegraph).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Containers numbered by agency as: 1001-1066, 1073-1077, 1079-1080. –Appendix: Boston Consolidated Gas Company and Old Colony Gas Company, utilities whose annual returns would fall within the scope of this series, although not specified by name in its finding aid, were subsidiaries of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, which published the periodical: Associate. Issues from 1946 to 1986 are available in the Archives reference library. For detailed holdings see appendix finding aid
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Scope and Content: The Victim and Witness Assistance Board, established by Massachusetts’s Victim Bill of Rights (St 1983, c 694, effective 1984–see currently MGLA c258B), is chaired by the state attorney general. The board governs the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance (MOVA), created in 1984 as the executive office of the board (Minutes, Aug. 28 and Oct. 24, 1984; Apr. 29,1985). The office and board review and approve federal and state grant funds given to programs to help victims (and witnesses) of crime, provide direct support to such victims through information, referrals, and counseling, and work in the areas of advocacy, legislation, public policy, training, education, and outreach.
Notes: Box 1: 1984-June 1987. Box 2: July 1987-July 1990. Box 3: Aug. 1990-May 1994. Box 4: June 1994-1996. Box 5: 1997-1999
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