Scope and Content: Regulation of immigration into Massachusetts was successively the responsibility of the superintendents of alien passengers, 1848-1869 (for Boston, 1848-1863) and more generally the Board of Alien Passengers, 1851-1863; the Board of State Charities through its general agent’s Subdept. of Immigration and Local Business, 1863-ca. 1869 and Subdept. of Immigration, ca. 1869-1879; and the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, 1879-1886, and State Board of Lunacy and Charity, 1886-1891, through their Division of Immigration, Dept. of Indoor Poor, from 1882 under contract to the U.S. Treasury Dept.  Per the federal  Acts of 1891, c 155, immigration authority was transferred from the states to the federal government.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Index to passengers, 1848-1891; arranged alphabetically by first letter of vessel name. (2) Index to ships, 1868-1871; Arranged alphabetically by surname
Notes: Compiled under sponsorship of U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service by U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA), 1935-1937. Forms part of: Alien passenger records. Volume 1: Oct. 1868-Dec. 1869.  Volume 2: Jan. 1870-Jan. 1871
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