Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872.  The State Primary School, opened at the almshouse in 1866 and continuing after its closing until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  St 1855, c 366 required an annual report of deaths by the institution superintendent (in lieu of the town clerk) to the state secretary, based on: Death register, 1854-1895 ((M-Ar)413X), which is in turn is derived from these certificates, surviving only from the period after the almshouse closing.
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872.  The State Primary School, opened at the almshouse in 1866 and continuing after its closing until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  St 1855, c 366 required an annual report of deaths by the institution superintendent (in lieu of the town clerk) to the state secretary, based on this series, continued after the almshouse closed.
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts General Court, early in the state’s constitutional period, reaffirmed the sheriff’s traditional role as keeper of the county jail (St 1783, c 44; MGLA c 126, s 16). He was mandated to keep a calendar of prisoners (St 1784, c 41; MGLA c 127, s 5) and to house debtors separately from those charged with crime (St 1784, c 41; MGLA c 127, c 22), presumably leading to the practice, at least in Suffolk County, of keeping separate calendars for the two groups until 1943.  Series lists those in the debtors category.
Notes: Vols. 1-2 have cover title: Sheriffs kalendar. Vol. for Sept. 1820-June 1823 lacking. Vol. 1-3, 1799-1812, also include: Criminal calendar, 1799-June 1814 (for later vols. see series (M-Ar)409X)
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration was established in 1886; until 1902 it was known as the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation or the State Board of Arbitration.  It was succeeded in 1919 by the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, part of the Department of Labor and Industries.
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission was created for the purpose of extending and increasing the water supply to the Massachusetts metropolitan water system (St 1926, c 375).  The commission was authorized to purchase or take land in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware rivers to develop the Quabbin Reservoir.  This included disinterment, transfer, and reburial from cemeteries in the areas to be flooded to the Quabbin Park Cemetery and other locations.  Deeds of release are the legal transfer of cemetery plots by the owners to the commission, and the authorization for removal and transfer to the new location.
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Scope and Content: Commissioners appointed pursuant to Resolves 1811, c 34 to review surrendered claims and determine compensatory grants to nonresident proprietors in Lincoln County, District of Maine, met in late 1811 and 1812 to receive testimony of proprietors and town settlers, submission, and deeds of release.  Deeds of release transferred title from nonresident proprietors to the Commonwealth.
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s: Miscellaneous collection, box 26
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Scope and Content: In 1980 the Board of Regents of Higher Education assumed the powers and duties of the Board of Higher Education, the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges, and the Board of Trustees of State Colleges.  Degree approval files of these predecessor agencies were transferred to the Board of Regents Division of Academic Affairs at that time and have been used by the board to carry out its functions of approving new degree programs and participating in systemwide planning activities.
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The Construction Division manages departmental construction projects.  Series was created by the department through that division to plan and implement the construction of that part of the Boston central artery known as the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from the Bostonian Society, August 12, 1999
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The Construction Division manages departmental construction projects.  Series is created by the department’s public information unit/affairs and contract photographers to provide visual documentation for monitoring of construction contract activities.
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Dept., have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  The departmental public information/affairs unit provides photographic services to departmental units responsible for engineering, construction, maintenance, safety studies, and traffic control, resulting in creation of this series of photographic aerial views of highway construction.
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