Scope and Content: Pursuant to Resolves 1798, c 64 and Resolves 1800, c 143, commissioners were appointed by the governor in 1803 to quiet claims of settlers on undivided lands (allowing for land purchase) and divided lands remaining with the proprietors of the Pejepscot Claim in the District of Maine after referees had fixed the claim’s boundaries.  Series consists of a report of the commmissioners’ work listing settlers on lands awarded to the claim’s proprietors by the referees.
Arrangement: Arranged by location of settler lot
Notes: Report was submitted to the General Court in 1804.  Resolves 1806, Jan Sess 1807, c 60 indicates that it was later transferred to the state secretary’s office. Bound with: Massachusetts. Commissioners Appointed to Give Deeds to Settlers in Lincoln County. Return of deeds given ((M-Ar)93X).  Volume t.p: Settlers on Lincoln County and Pejepscot lands
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Industrial Commission was created in 1929 for the promotion and development of the industries and the industrial, agricultural, and recreational resources of the Commonwealth.  Resolves 1929, c 54 asked the commission to investigate the textile industry and to make recommendations on improving working conditions and alleviating unemployment in that and other industries, including in its considerations the question of providing unemployment insurance.  This report documents the commission’s investigation.
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Scope and Content: Under successive authorizations, the Land Office oversaw the management and sale of public lands in Maine for the Commonwealth during the first half of the 19th century.  As a part of this function, the office administered and recorded the settlement of disputed claims.  This report documents the validation and settlement of claims relating to lands mortgaged by Leonard Jarvis, based on findings earlier determined in a report by George Herbert (Report concerning lands mortgaged by Leonard Jarvis ((M-Ar)87X); see also Joseph Lee’s Memorandum of claims to land in the town of Penobscot ((M-Ar)78X)).  This report, concerning land in Penobscot, Surrey, and Ellsworth, reflects the actual adjustment of claims made by the Land Office for those individuals who had settled on or taken possession of lands mortgaged to Jarvis.
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Development and Industrial Commission, which was to promote and develop industrial, agricultural, and recreational resources of the Commonwealth, was mandated by St 1950, c652 to make an annual report to the governor and General Court and any further reports that were necessary and advisable, containing its findings on the competitive position of Massachusetts industry in the United States and world markets, and including suggestions and recommendations for executive and legislative action as would improve the competitive position of Massachusetts industry.  This report contains the results conducted by the commission to meet the statutory requirements.
Notes: Cover title: A report to the Massachusetts State Development & Industrial Commission Concerning Competitive Position of Massachusetts Industry
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Conservation was established in 1919 and replaced with the Dept. of Natural Resources in 1953.  That department was abolished effective 1975 with its constituent parts distributed among agencies of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1992. Source unrecorded
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Scope and Content: Responsibility for water delivery and sewer systems in the Boston metropolitan area has been successively that of the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); Water and Sewerage Divisions, Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985); and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (since 1985)
Notes: Title page title: Geology of the Wachusett Reservoir area, central Massachusetts, with specific reference to the Wachusett bypass options / prepared by David D. Ashenden
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1819, c 161, an act to provide for separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state, commissioners were appointed to divide public lands and other property between the two states, including military stores (s 1: 2nd).  Series is a report ordered by the commissioners as an inventory of military stores on hand to be divided two to one between Massachusetts and Maine.
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s miscellaneous collection, box 18
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Scope and Content: The Subdivision of Research and Statistics was established in the Division of Aid and Relief (Dept. of Public Welfare) in 1937.  By 1939 it was renamed Bureau of Research and Statistics and by 1940 was an independent unit within the department.  It was renamed successively: Division of Research and Planning (1970), Division of Statistics and Analysis (1971), Office of Research and Planning (mid-1970s), Office of Research and Evaluation (1979), and Office of Research, Evaluation, and Planning (1983)
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject/title
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth was established in 1992 to investigate utilization of resources from the public and private sectors to enhance and improve the ability of state agencies to provide services to gay and lesbian youth, and in the course of its investigations to provide periodic reports to the governor.
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Scope and Content: The Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands was created by the General Court to oversee the management and sale of public lands in the District of Maine.  During the course of its first twelve years, the activities of the committee met with indifferent results.  Consequently in 1795 the General Court directed the committee to suspend all subsequent sales and to prepare a report on its activities from the time of its creation in 1783 (Resolves 1794, Jan 1795 Sess, c 131).  This document, dated June 16, 1795, comprises the report sought by the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged by tables depicting committee activities
Restrictions: Original restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of the Massachusetts Archives only
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