Scope and Content: During the late provincial, Revolutionary, and early Constitutional periods, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts reimbursed physicians for services to  inmates of the almshouse maintained for the town of Boston by its overseers of the poor, so long as such inmates were certified as not being inhabitants of any town of the state (St 1766-67, c 17).  Accounts kept by the physicians were so certified by the almshouse master and chair of the town selectmen and then submitted for approval, in earlier years directly to the governor and council for drawing of a warrant for payment by the state treasurer, later to the Committee on Accounts of the General Court, which then forwarded them to the governor and council.
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