Scope and Content: As part of its function to maintain and supervise the harbors and wetlands of Massachusetts, the Board of Harbor Commissioners was required to account for its activities and expenditures.  Minute books of weekly meetings document measures taken by the board to protect the harbors and tidewaters and insure the navigability of the harbors.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to oversee Boston Harbor and Back Bay lands, the Commissioners on Public Lands (and their predecessors in this function until 1861, the Commissioners on the Back Bay) kept minute books to record their activities and expenditures.  Minutes of their weekly meetings document actions taken to fill and develop the Back Bay, including gaining rights and title to the area, selling and leasing the lands once filled, and laying streets and sewers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting
Notes: Volume 1, presumably containing minutes of the Commissioners on Boston Harbor and the Back Bay, 1852-1855, is lacking
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Scope and Content: In 1911 responsibility for the care and supervision of Boston Harbor was transferred from the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners to the newly created Directors of the Port of Boston, who were also charged with developing the Port of Boston.  These minutes of their weekly meetings document their activities and decisions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to maintain and supervise the harbors and lands of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, to 1916, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1916-1919, the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Dept. of Public Works, 1919-1927, and the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938) were required to account for their activities and expenditures.  Minute books of weekly meetings document measures taken by commissioners to protect harbors and tidewaters and to insure the navigability of harbors.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting; some chronologically in reverse order within year after 1943
Notes: Additional draft minutes, Apr. 1901-June 1902 (2 volumes), transferred from: Massachusetts. Executive Office of Transportation and Construction. Maps, aerials, photos, plans ((M-Ar)1758)) Docket books retained for 1967-1972 instead of minute books contain ms. annotations and are generally more complete. Minute books for 1939-1942 and 1947-1965 are missing
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Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910.  They were replaced by the Division of Sanitoria in the Department of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names: by 1969, after it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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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.  Minutes of Council meetings record all matters discussed and acted on by the Council.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Dairy Bureau was constituted in 1891 in the State Board of Agriculture (State Dept. of Agriculture in 1918) to regulate manufacture and sale of butter and cheese in Massachusetts. In 1919 it was replaced by the Division of Dairying and Animal Husbandry in the Dept. of Agriculture.  Minutes record date, attendees, and actions of the bureau’s monthly meetings. Series includes copies of letters to board members and letters of recommendation for an inspector position.
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1996, from State Library of  Massachusetts, Special Collections
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Scope and Content: Beginning in 1911, a Homestead Commission studied how to improve housing for the urban working class.  From 1917 to 1919 (after which the function was placed in the Dept. of Public Welfare) it had the power to acquire and sell suburban homesteads to relieve urban congestion.  Minutes document decisions and actions at meetings of the commission.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Includes minutes of 42nd through 84th meetings
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Scope and Content: The Joint Labor-Management Committee was established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1977 (as of 1978) to have oversight responsibility for all collective bargaining negotiations involving municipal police and firefighters.  Minutes record actions at case meetings, held semi-monthly to docket/review status of active and pending cases, assume jurisdiction, schedule arbitration/mediation events, note date of expiration of agreements, and schedule investigation of cases brought by petition; chairman’s meetings, held monthly to discuss financial/administrative issues and problem cases; and special topics meetings, generally in workshop format, held occasionally.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Box 1: Jan. 1985-June 1988. Box 2: July 1988-June 1993. Box 3: July 1993-Dec. 1996. Box 4: Jan. 1997-June 1999
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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).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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