Scope and Content: Per St 1864, c 239, any person having charge of money or property, as trustee under act of incorporation by Massachusetts, or any corporation other than a bank having money or property in trust, was to make an annual report to the state secretary of the amount and condition of trust, with amount paid from or on account of such trust, such returns to be consolidated in a printed report from the secretary to the legislature.  St 1865, c 143 and c 271 regulated procedures and penalties for enforcing the act, which was repealed by St 1866, c 75.  Series was created to preserve such returns in preparation for the printed report.
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 33
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