Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919) have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities), including maintenance of its roads and sewers.  Correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) from the MPC secretary to the MPC engineer and later from the MDC secretary to the MDC director of park engineering transmits information and instructions for work assignments from commission meetings and from other commission departments.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919) have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of land for the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities).  Correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) successively from the secretaries of the MPC and MDC to the landscape architect transmits instructions for work assignments for the design and maintenance of landscaping and for preparation of plans for land taking.
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
Notes: Cover title: Political letters. Outgoing correspondence of William E. Brigham, secretary of the New England Reciprocity League, concerns the league’s activities in behalf of tariff reciprocity, a primary political concern of Eugene N. Foss. This letterpress copybook bears the printed label of B.F. Sturtevant Company, of which Foss was treasurer and general manager
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Scope and Content: The Continental Congress appointed John Allan as agent (later superintendent) of Indian affairs in the Continental Army’s Eastern Department, including New England, the St. John River region, and Nova Scotia generally (Journals, Jan. 14-15, 1777). Later that year, at the urging of Allan and others, and at the request of Congress (Journals, May 13, 1777), the State of Massachusetts Bay’s General Court authorized the raising of troops at Machias to protect settlers of its Eastern (Maine) District and appointed Allan colonel of Indian troops serving the state in the area (Resolves 1777-78, c 277, Sept. 16, 1777), and, the next day, also named him colonel of the troops just raised (c 281) –In these various federal and state posts Allan was to maintain good relations with the Indians who lived in the region to ensure their loyalty to the state and to the Revolutionary American cause, by setting up and supplying truck houses, protecting the Indians, and consulting with them to learn their concerns.  The state funded Allan’s activities, expecting ultimate reimbursement from the federal government.  Col. Allan wrote extensively to the Council, the General Court’s upper chamber, to gain recognition for Indian loyalty, forward intelligence on British actions, and ensure adequate supplies for the Indians and for colonial troops in the Machias region.
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Agriculture (1852) was successively replaced by the State Dept. of Agriculture (1918), the Dept. of Agriculture (1919), and the Dept. of Food and Agriculture (1975)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Removed from volumes in 1983; provenance unclear
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office maintained these files of correspondence between the governor and Massachusetts municipal officials.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality
Notes: Also known as: MSD 1/401
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office maintained these files of correspondence between the governor and citizens or officials of other state and foreign countries.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) General (2) States (3) Foreign countries
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Scope and Content: In 1934 Massachusetts established the Milk Control Board within the Dept. of Agriculture; in 1941 the Division of Milk Control was established under the supervision and control of a reconstituted Milk Control Board, replaced by the Milk Control Commission in 1953. Both bodies were abolished in 1983.
Arrangement: Arranged by marketing area
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Scope and Content: By its constitutional and statutory authority to provide advice and consent to the governor, the  Council approves, among others, the appointments of judicial and quasi-judicial officers, the adjournment or prorogation of the General Court, the granting of pardons, and warrants authorizing expenditures from the Treasury.  Council files contain letters and memoranda submitted by state agencies and offices communicating their intent to take actions that require the approval of the governor and his council as well as resolutions and orders issued by the governor and council.  The content of the files varies over time as do the actions that require approval. –Petitions relating to slavery removed from individual files for digitization and now stored separately. –Correspondence consists of copies of letters from Council executive secretary communicating Council actions to appointees or other affected state officials. –Related records, 1913-1973, are in: Special reports and hearing transcripts ((M-Ar)774)
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Files; arranged chronologically (2) Correspondence, 1953-1960; arranged alphabetically by state agency, thereunder chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Boxes numbered: 0-249
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Scope and Content: The Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council was an independent Massachusetts state agency responsible in conjunction with the Dept. of Environmental Management and the Dept. of Environmental Protection for overseeing siting of hazardous waste treatment facilities from 1980 to 1996.  Siting process as administered by the council included receiving and reviewing developer’s proposal and facilitating negotiations among developer and affected communities prior to the reaching of a siting agreement declared operative by the council.  The full council met one or more times monthly to coordinate these activities; series was created to record its proceedings and votes.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Includes audio cassettes. Files for Sept. 1987-June 1989 lacking
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