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Scope and Content: The Board of State Charities was established in Massachusetts in 1863, replacing the Board of Alien Commissioners, and was succeeded in 1879 by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity.
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Notes: No. 1-2: Public document, no. 19; succeeding reports: Public document, no. 17. Holdings: 1864-1869, 1871-1878 (no. 1-6, 8-15); 1870 (no. 7) lacking. Appendix 1 (1 volumeolumes): Report of the General Agent, no. 6-15 (1869-1878). Appendix 2 (1 volumeolumes): Ancillary documents, 1833-1865. Report of the commissioners…on the subject of the pauper system, Jan. 1833. Abstract of the returns…concerning the condition of pauper idiots and lunatics, Jan. 1843. Memorial [of Dorothea L. Dix] to the legislature of Massachusetts, Jan. 1843. [Report on public charitable institutions] (1843 H 38), Feb. 1843. Report of the Special Joint Committee [on] Public Charitable Institutions, 1858. [Additional copy of Board’s first annual report, Oct. 1864.] Special report of the Board of State Charities on the state almshouse system (1865 S 28), Feb. 1865.
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Scope and Content: The Bureau of Statistics of Labor, established in 1869, was renamed the Bureau of Statistics in 1909, and abolished in 1919.
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Notes: Public documents, number 15
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Notes: Public document, no. 71
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Notes: Reports for 1958, 1959, 1962 missing
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Notes: Report for 1863: Public document, no. 14. Report for 1864: Public document, no. 13
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Agriculture, established by Massachusetts in 1852, was replaced successively by the State Dept. of Agriculture in 1918 and the Dept. of Agriculture in 1919. That body was renamed the Dept. of Food and Agriculture in 1975.
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Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1996, from State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections. Reports to 1922 printed; reports from 1941 are typescript. Report year from 1941 ends June 30. Reports for 1856, 1877, 1886, 1908, 1923-1940 lacking
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Scope and Content: The Commissioners of Prisons were established in 1870. They reconstituted as the Board of Commissioners of Prisons in 1879, and were succeeded in turn by the Board of Prison Commissioners in 1901, the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons in 1916, and the Department of Correction 1919.
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Notes: Public document, no. 115
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Scope and Content: The Department of Education was established in 1919, superceding the Board of Education and the Bureau of Immigration.
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Notes: Public document, number 2
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Scope and Content: The Department of Environmental Management M.G.L., ch. 21, s. 1, exercises general oversight over the natural resources of the Commonwealth, develops policies for their management, and administers parks and historic sites that have come under its jurisdiction. The commissioner of environmental management is responsible for preparing the departmental annual report (MGLA c 21, s 3 c). The annual report is a statement of departmental accomplishments during the preceding year and relates goals to be met in the coming year. Prior to 1987, the annual report was published.
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Notes: Scheduled as: Unpublished annual reports. Reports for 1975-1976, 1978, 1983 missing
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