Scope and Content: Resolves 1829, c 83 (1830) authorized the governor of Massachusetts to purchase land for the construction of a lunatic hospital and to appoint a three-person board of commissioners to oversee its construction.  (The institution was established as the State Lunatic Hospital per St 1832, c 163, and is presently known as Worcester State Hospital.)  The commissioners, empowered to make contracts and to appoint agents to superintend construction, were to present their accounts to governor and council for auditing and payment.
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 2
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