Scope and Content: Under the direction of the state archivist, the Massachusetts Archives is responsible for securing, preserving, and managing noncurrent records of the Commonwealth determined to possess archival value.  The state secretary’s responsibility for such records, grounded in the Constitution (1780), was not specifically delegated until 1897, when the third clerk of the secretary’s office was designated as chief of the Archives Division (St 1897, c 351).  Series documents discussion in the public press of the mission, operations, and holdings of the Massachusetts Archives, and display of such holdings at the Commonwealth Museum; also related issues regarding public records and archival materials throughout the Commonwealth.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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