Scope and Content: The Senate clerk maintains an account of actions taken by the Senate of the Massachusetts General Court for each day of the legislative session.  Record of proceedings is called the journal (Senate rules, 6), which is printed daily. –Proceedings of the upper house of the General Court, designated under the 1780 Constitution as the Senate, are recorded in this series for the constitutional period only.  Archival set consists of (1) ms. proceedings for legislative years 1780/81-1885  (2) printed proceedings for 1868 onward (1868-1885, 1975, v. 1, 1982, v. 2, 1983, v. 1, 1989, v. 2, 1997/98, v. 3 not official copies;  2003/2004, 2005/2006, 2007/2008, v. 1-2 only).  For details see finding aid.  Also included, 1917-1919, is: Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (see: Administrative files of the Constitutional Convention of 1917 ((M-Ar)54X)) –For ms. proceedings of the upper house and the General Court generally during the colonial period, 1629-1686, see: Massachusetts. General Court. Proceedings of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay ((M-Ar)1700X).  For the later intercharter, provincial, and Revolutionary periods from 1689 see: Massachusetts. Council. Legislative records ((M-Ar)1701X), which series continues through 1837, duplicating this one.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, biennially from 1995-1996
Notes: St 1939, c 508, s 3 (amending St 1844, c 153) places custody of Senate clerk’s files with the state secretary after the legislative year
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