Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities (1966) and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council (1980) were abolished and succeeded in their functions by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990.
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities was established to maintain a continuing study of the cultural resources of the Commonwealth and was responsible for initiating, publicizing, and allocating grant funds to arts programs.  Its Task Force on Public Financing of the Arts and Humanities was formed in 1978 to develop plans for expanding public aid to the arts and humanities in Massachusetts, to be embodied in legislative proposals.  Series was created to administer affairs of the task force.
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Scope and Content: The State House Building Commission was established in 1913 to oversee construction of east and west wing additions to the State House; in 1916 it was abolished and succeeded in this function by the State House Commission.  Administrative files were created by these agencies to fulfill the responsibility.
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Scope and Content: The State Office of Affirmative Action is responsible for enforcing the Governor’s Code of Fair Practices as it pertains to employment within the Executive Department without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, language, sex, age, or handicap, and related equal opportunity and affirmative action policies. Executive offices and their constituent agencies are required annually to report related employment statistics for their staffs as documented by this series (Exec Order 227, Feb 25, 1983) Files contain agency complaint profile and summary, goal setting worksheet, and statistical breakdown of employees by job category overall and by hires, promotions, transfers, and terminations; also by salary range. Copies of the state office’s enabling executive orders and annual reports are also included
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by executive office, thereunder chronologically by year, and then by constituent agency
Notes: Scheduled as: Annual reports.
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Scope and Content: The Board of Tax Appeals established in 1930 within the Department of the State Treasurer, was replaced in 1937 by the Appellate Tax Board within the Department of Corporations and Taxations (Department of Revenue from 1978).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, number 148. Report for 1941-1945, 1964 missing
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Scope and Content: The Civil Service Commission was established in 1884.  It was abolished in 1919 and its functions transferred to the Division of Civil Service.  It was revived as a separate body in 1939 and reconstituted in the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1974.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, number 53. Reports for 1892, 1916, 1934 missing
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Commission, established in 1946, was renamed Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in 1950.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, number 163. Reports for 1954 missing
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically

Notes: Public document, no. 119. –Report for 1921 missing

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Scope and Content: The Comptroller’s Bureau, established in 1922 within the Commission on Administration and Finance, was replaced in 1963 by the Comptroller’s Division within the Executive office for Administration and Finance, and in 1986 by the Office of the Comptroller.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Reports for 1951-1985 have title: Massachusetts financial report. 1996 report in 2 volumes. Public document, no. 140. Reports for 1949, 1958-1959, 1967-1970, 1979-1984, 1990 missing
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Scope and Content: The post of Superintendent of Buildings was established in 1919 and renamed State Superintendent of Buildings in 1938.  In 1962 it was placed at the head of the Bureau of State Buildings (Executive Office of Administration and Finance), replaced in 1980 by the Bureau of State Office Buildings.
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