Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1936, c 429, the Dept. of Public Works (DPW) filed with the office of the state secretary a report tabulating county, city, and town bridges in the Commonwealth damaged by the 1936 floods.  The report was used as a basis for selecting reconstruction projects.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by municipality
Notes: T.p.: City and town bridges damaged or destroyed by floods in March 1936. Two copies of report included
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Scope and Content: The state secretary as record keeper of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts received a report addressed to the governor regarding inoculation against smallpox in the town of Milton.  Series consists of transcripts of documents
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 20
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Scope and Content: The State Prison was opened in 1805 at Charlestown, Boston, as a successor to the prison on Castle Island.  During 1878-1884 the prison was closed and inmates kept at Concord.  With that exception, Charlestown remained the Massachusetts state prison until replaced by Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, 1955-1956.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Notes: Series may have been separated at an early date from: Executive correspondence ((M-Ar)116X), which contains similar matter. — Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 3. –formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 207
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Scope and Content: As secretary to the governor of Massachusetts until 1861, the state secretary kept copies of executive correspondence.  This 1809 draft letter from Gov. Christopher Gore to the Marquis de Somoruelos, governor of Cuba, requests that James Drake, John Murdock, and John Reynolds of Havana be ordered to take depositions from Felix Quintera, Mates Leal, and Madame de St. George in the case of Jonathan Amory, appellant, and Nathaniel Fellows, appellee, before the Supreme Judicial Court.
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 1
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Scope and Content: Under the provisions of St 1854, c 95, persons confined in a jail or house of correction who were diagnosed with mental illness could be removed to a lunatic hospital or other suitable location if ordered by the governor, with transport assigned to the county sheriff. St 1880, c 250 authorized the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity (State Board of Lunacy and Charity, 1886, State Board of Insanity, 1898) to designate two persons to examine state prison and reformatory inmates alleged to be insane and report to the governor, who could issue warrants  to prison superintendents or wardens for their transfer to state lunatic hospitals (state insane hospitals from 1898). St 1909, c 504, s 105 transferred power to issue warrants to the superior court in the county where the prison was located.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 100. –Separately written warrants previously held as a separate series ((M-Ar)158X) Box 1: 1855-1886. Box 2: 1887-1890.  Box 3: 1891-1899.  Box 4: 1900-1903.  Box 5: 1904-1905.  Box 6: 1906-1909.
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Scope and Content: The governor sends to the state secretary for review, legislation that may impact the state secretary’s responsibilities or laws of the Commonwealth under which the secretary has jurisdiction. Series includes requests, responses, copies of legislation, proposed amendments, and a periodic log tracking receipt at and return from the secretary of such legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by two-year legislative session, in volumes (usually single year). Vols. in chronological order, each with initial log sheets and associated files in reverse chronological order
Notes: Contents: Box 1. 1999/2000-2007/2008. Box 2. 2009/2010- 2011/2012. Box 3. 2013/2014
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Scope and Content: Resolutions of the General Court deal with matters of a temporary nature, such as congratulations or memorials to Congress.  Certified copies of joint resolutions (i.e., of both chambers) have been sent to Congress to certify ratification by the legislature of amendments to the U.S. Constitution (US Const Art 5).  Copies contained in this series are engrossed on parchment and may also include signatures of the House and Senate clerks and state secretary.  Original papers are found in: House unpassed legislation ((M-Ar)230) or: Senate unpassed legislation ((M-Ar)231)
Notes: The state secretary is custodian of this and other foundation records of the Commonwealth
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Scope and Content: County commissioners were required by St 1840, c 90 to submit a return to the state secretary of information concerning the highways constructed in the preceding year.  Returns reported estimated and actual costs of construction for new highways and alterations.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 42
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Scope and Content: By various acts intended to regulate the inspection of goods sold in or exported from the Commonwealth, appointed public inspectors were required to submit annual reports to the state secretary.  Returns contain quantity, quality, and weight of article inspected and the names of individual businesses.
Arrangement: Arranged by inspector title, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, boxes 35-41
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Scope and Content: In order to gather information about poll tax policies, the state secretary surveyed colleagues in the other states.  Series consists of letters in response to the secretary’s queries.
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 57
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