Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Local Affairs, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters seeking enactment of special laws for a certain city or town; establishment of economic, district, and local planning commissions; rent control; zoning laws and rules; and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation. –Files relating to the Cape Cod Commission acts (St 1989, c 716; St 1990, c 2)
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture (as of 2005: Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture), a standing committee of the Massachusetts General Court, considers all matters pertaining to natural resources and the environment: air, water, and noise pollution and control thereof; hunting and fishing; conservation; solid and hazardous waste disposal; sewerage; agricultural and farm problems; and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation. Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation. –Files may contain House and Senate draft and final bills and draft amendments; petitions, statements, and correspondence supporting or opposing legislation; and background materials including reports, memorandums, and copies of laws and legal files.
Notes: Background materials may predate file dates
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Public Safety, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning the safety of the public, including civil defense, firearms and gun control, fire laws, motor vehicle laws, the Soldiers’ Home, and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by year/subject
Notes: Background materials may predate file dates
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on the Judiciary, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning the judiciary, including salaries and recall of judges, and juries and jury duty (but excluding retirement of judges and salaries and tenure of court clerks and court officers), and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Subject files are compiled during the process of drafting and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically/by subject
Notes: Assembled by committee co-chair Senator Alan Sisitsky and transferred to Archives from State Library, January 13, 1983. Background materials may predate stated file span
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Scope and Content: Successive committees of the House of Representatives were appointed to receive, examine, and pass upon accounts submitted for payment for purchases and services approved by the Revolutionary Massachusetts General Court.  From 1780, a joint standing committee of both houses of the Constitutional General Court (by at least 1782 known as the Committee on Accounts) performed the same function.  Approved accounts were forwarded to the Council (for concurrence as of 1776), which issued warrants for payment by the Treasury.  Series represents an accounting record for the period before 1786, at which time a settled procedure of account rolls (Account roll submissions ((M-Ar)9X); Account rolls (M-Ar)2268X)) was instituted.  It parallels a chronological set of accounts (Account journals, 1775-1786 ((M-Ar)2236X)), containing some but not necessarily all of the same data.
Arrangement: Arranged within each volume by county/town, thereunder by date
Notes: Label inside front cover, v. 1: “Accounts passed by the Courts Committee on Accounts since the Council undertook to record them at Watertown Dec 7th 1775 [i.e., per Resolves 1775-76, c 426] up to the 25th October 1780, the time when the new constitution took place.  Posted in this book to each respective town.  Also to sundry persons the towns not mentioned.”
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Scope and Content: The Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed inquired into the subject of the unemployed in Massachusetts and measures for their relief by the Commonwealth and its municipalities.  It was to cooperate with county and municipal authorities in devising methods of distinguishing confirmed vagrants from those willing to work (St 1894, c 239, s 4).  To further its investigations in this area, the board tracked the flow of tramps lodged overnight by police in Massachusetts towns, as recorded in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by month, thereunder by town
Notes: Collated 1895
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Scope and Content: The Board to Investigate the Subject of the Unemployed inquired into the subject of the unemployed in Massachusetts and measures for their relief by the Commonwealth and its municipalities.  To further its investigations the board held hearings at which private and public sector employers and union officials from throughout the state testified in response to a series of set questions regarding levels of employment/unemployment and wages/trade-union benefits paid, 1892-1894, as recorded in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by hearing date
Notes: Lacks pages 222-295, 1531-1552, 1611-1688
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Scope and Content: A survey of the Commonwealth was commissioned by the governor in 1830 in order to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts.  For the trigonometrical phase of the survey, teams took angle measurements from primary and secondary stations and recorded them in field notebooks ((M-Ar)764X).  This series, consolidating measurements from those notebooks, consists of computations of the triangles establishing the exact location of the stations.
Arrangement: Arranged by station number
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Scope and Content: The Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code, established in 1953, submitted a report to the General Court in Jan. 1954, consisting of draft legislation (1953 H 2400) eventually adopted as St 1957, c 765 (MGLA c106).  Included with the report was this appendix, consisting of official comments of the commission that were in fact those of the code’s sponsoring organizations, the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.  Since the comments were eventually to be included in the annotated version of Massachusetts General Laws, this copy of the appendix,  consisting of edited printed copy, was filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives on Jan. 27, 1954 but not reprinted as part of the commission report.
Notes: Title page: Appendix B to Report to the Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code
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Scope and Content: The Board of Directors (Commissioners) of Internal Improvements was authorized by St 1827, c 116 (1828) to investigate rail routes from Boston west to the Hudson River and south to Providence, appointing engineers to survey and stake out such routes, accepting land gifts and grants, entertaining proposals of individual or corporate contributions, and negototiating with governments of or parties within the states of New York and Rhode Island.  The board was required to present to the legislature an account of all monies expended in these activities (s 5).  Vouchers show disbursement of funds for goods and services supplied to the board and board personnel.
Notes: Label title: Accounts & vouchers of the Commissioners of the Board of Internal Improvements rendered January session 1829
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