Scope and Content: Per order of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Sept. 15, 1842 (House Journal 1842, p. 349), the state secretary was to prepare a series of questions to ascertain the condition of pauper lunatics and idiots in the Commonwealth, to be distributed to county commissioners, overseers of local houses of correction and of the poor, selectmen, and mayors and aldermen. Printed forms require information as of the year ending Jan. 1, 1843 and are divided into:
Arrangement: Arranged by county, thereunder alphabetically by municipality
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