Scope and Content: Massachusetts has administered water works and sewage disposal for the Boston metropolitan area successively through the Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (Metropolitan Sewerage Commission) (1889-1901) and the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985). Since 1985, the sewerage works functions have been assigned to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the water works functions have been shared by the MWRA (distribution) and the Metropolitan District Commission (to 2003) and the Dept.  of Conservation and Recreation (since 2003) (water supply reservoirs and their watershed management).
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission. Permit No. 42 is missing. Some licenses by the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and by the Dept. of Public Works, Division of Waterways are missing
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Scope and Content: Middlesex County was incorporated on May 10, 1643 (Mass Recs 2:38), continuing under successive governments of Massachusetts, most recently the Commonwealth (1780), as outlined in MGLA c 34.  Administrative powers and duties previously exercised at various times under the laws of the Commonwealth by the county courts of general sessions of the peace, county courts of common pleas, and circuit courts of common pleas, were assigned to commissioners in Middlesex and other counties, per St 1827, c 77 (1828).  The government of Middlesex County in this and other respects was abolished as of the effective date of St 1997, c 48 (approved July 11, 1997)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: In its statutory role (MGLA c 28A) as advocate for services to children in Massachusetts, the Office for Children administered a task force on child care affordability established per St 1986, c 206, s 53, chaired by the office director, with membership from the legislature, Dept. of Social Services, Child Care Coalition, and agubernatorial appointee.  The task force, reauthorized by St 1987, c 199, s 77 and St 1989, c 244, s 54 and continuing to meet through 1991, documented the cost of child care relative to working family annual income.  The office’s Child Care Affordability Project consisted of a task force report, funded by the office and United Way of Massachusetts, and a pilot Affordability Scholarship Assistanco Program for families whose income exceeded eligibility requirements for state subsidy.  St 1990, c 521 (approved 1991) established a Child Care Affordability Scholarship Assistance Fund to be administered by the task force.  Series was maintained by the office’s licensing unit to administer task force proceedings and related office projects.
Notes: Some materials predate formal constituting of task force
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Scope and Content: In its statutory role as advocate for services to children in Massachusetts, the Office for Children establishes regulations for licensing or approval of day care and substitute care providers (MGLA c 28A, s 4(c)).  The office holds hearings prior to adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations as required by law (MGLA c 30A, s 2).  Series is created by the office’s licensing unit to administer hearings and collate resulting comment.
Arrangement: Arranged by program, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: In its statutory role as advocate for services to children in Massachusetts, the Office for Children establishes regulations for licensing or approval of day care and substitute care providers (MGLA c 28A, s 4(c)).  Series is created by the office’s licensing unit to develop and obtain such regulations.
Arrangement: Arranged by program, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Correction is responsible for administering the state correctional system and providing custodial and rehabilitative services to persons sentenced to state correctional institutions.  Lists of capital punishment cases at state prison facilities (i.e., Castle Island, Charlestown, and Walpole) were created by the central office of the department to compile statistics.
Restrictions: Lists of persons serving life sentences are restricted. Criminal offender record information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 6, ss 167-178. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in the Lincoln County area of Maine.  With the drawing of the lottery in October 1787, prize lots were distributed among the holders of chances.  This series details the transfers of land made on the basis of the drawing.
Arrangement: Arranged principally by township, thereunder by lot number
Notes: Spine title: Lottery lands
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Scope and Content: The Board of Education was established in 1837.  It was replaced in 1919 by the Dept. of Education under the control of the Advisory Board of Education, which was superseded by the Board of Education (not to be confused with the earlier body of that name) in 1947.
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Scope and Content: To assist the Office of the Secretary of State in fulfilling its responsibility to administer laws and regulations governing the activities of legislative agents (lobbyists) employed by special interest groups, the Public Records Division, specifically from the 1980s through its Lobbyist Section, registers and maintains a docket of vital information on each legislative agent, as required by MGLA c 3, s 41.  Prior to 1974 these records were maintained by the sergeant-at-arms of the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year. –thereunder chronologically by registration date; –thereunder alphabetically by agent.
Notes: Also known as: Docket books; Dockets. –Unboxed vols. (1973-1974) shelved as box 21
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Scope and Content: In fulfilling its responsibility to administer laws and regulations governing the activities of legislative agents (lobbyists) employed by special interest groups, the Office of the Secretary of State maintains filings of itemized expenditures of employers and receipt of money by agents. By the 1970s the activity had been delegated to the Public Records Division, and from the 1980s more specifically to the division’s Lobbyist Section.
Arrangement: In three subseries:  (1) Financial disclosures of employers  (2) Financial disclosures of organizations without agents  (3) Financial disclosures of agents; arranged within each subseries chronologically by year, thereunder alphabetically by organization or agent
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