Scope and Content: Resolves 1949, c 28 established a special commission to be called: Market Authority, consisting of legislative and gubernatorial appointees, including the commissioner of agriculture ex officio, to investigate handling of essential fresh foods and to improve market facilities for such handling.  St 1950, c 748 followed the commission’s report to the legislature with establishment of the Massachusetts Marketing Authority with similar membership but including Boston officials as well, as a body politic and corporate, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth, to acquire land for a modern market project for named communities of metropolitan Boston, through the issuance of revenue bonds.  St 1951, c 714 amended the preceding act to apply only to the city of Boston, which would acquire the marketing project when revenue bonds were paid.  This being accomplished, the authority was abolished per St 1953, c 248.  Series includes letters, maps, plans, photographs, newspaper clippings, lists of popular food-related items in Boston and their prices, minutes, and reports.
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1996, from State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections
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