Scope and Content: As part of its responsibility for the education and training of mentally retarded youth, the Commonwealth, pursuant to Resolves 1851, c 44, paid tuition costs for indigent families at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded (known until 1883 as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth).  The school in turn was to admit, at no charge, thirty indigent children approved by the governor.  Applications filed by parents or guardians were forwarded to the governor for authorization upon recommendation by the secretary of the Board of Education.  Authorized applications were recorded in this register by the state secretary.  Entries document that the approved application was sent to the director of the school with a request for admission. –Also included in the volume is a request from Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind for a transfer of students from its Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children (the first Massachusetts School’s predecessor) in 1851 and a list of beneficiaries authorized by the governor from September 1886 to June 1887.  The list includes date, name, age, parent or guardian, and town of residence. –Applications for those listed in this series are found in Applications for admission to the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded ((M-Ar)156X).  For later admissions see: Walter E. Fernald State School. Applications for admission, 1918-1947 ((M-Ar)958X).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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