Scope and Content: The State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Inmates were placed on trial (often subsequently indentured) with families; per St 1880, c 208, s 1, inmates too young or otherwise handicapped to earn their support were placed on board with families, the state paying attendant costs.  Series was created to administer forwarding of clothing supplier bills to the Dept. of Indoor Poor, State Board of Lunacy and Charity, for clothes furnished to boarded inmates.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of bill
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