Scope and Content: The State Examiners of Plumbers were established under the State Board of Health in 1909 (State Dept. of Health, 1914-1919, Dept. of Public Health from 1919).  It was reorganized as the Board of State Examiners of Plumbers in 1925 within the Division of Registration and superseded by the Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters in 1977.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Register of master plumbers (2) Register of journeyman plumbers; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
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Scope and Content: Public accountants have been registered as certified in Massachusetts successively by the Bank Commissioner (St 1909, s 399, s 1), the Dept. of Banking and Insurance (St 1919, c 350, s 45), and the Board of Registration of Certified Public Accountants (St 1923, c 470, s 1), which was succeeded in 1963 by the Board of Public Accountancy. Series consists of a card file covering the certifications made up that point, each entry containing the name, address, and certificate number and date of issue.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically
Notes: Box 1: A-G. Box 2: H-P. Box 3: Q-Z
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration of Medicine, established in 1894, was placed within the Division of Registration (Dept. of Civil Service and Registration) in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration and Discipline in Medicine as of 1976, renamed the Board of Registration in Medicine again in 1979.
Arrangement: Arranged by application number
Notes: Series includes application numbers 13-4376
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Notes: Partly scheduled as Annual reports
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Scope and Content: The Board of Gas Commissioners, established in 1885, was renamed Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners in 1889.  That body was abolished in 1919, when its functions were combined with those of the Public Service Commission in the Dept. of Public Utilities.
Arrangement: Arranged by docket number
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration of Medicine, established in 1894, was placed within the Division of Registration (Dept. of Civil Service and Registration) in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration and Discipline in Medicine as of 1976, renamed the Board of Registration in Medicine again in 1979.
Arrangement: Arranged by category, thereunder alphabetically by physician
Restrictions: Restricted series: Personal and personal medical information restricted by statutory provision; MGLA c 4, s 7, cl 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access, consult repository
Notes: Box 1: Deceased physicians as of Aug. 1987. Boxes 2-3: Physicians no longer in board system as of Aug. 1987.  Files closed, 1990-1997. Boxes 4-9: Deceased physicians. Boxes 10-18: Retired physicians. Boxes 19-20: Resigned physicians
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Scope and Content: Savings Bank Life Insurance (SBLI) was a state-regulated program for Massachusetts savings bank insurance departments conceived of and promoted by then Boston attorney and later Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.  St 1907, c 561, drafted by Brandeis, authorized savings banks incorporated in Massachusetts, under the auspices of the bank commissioner and the insurance commissioner, to establish insurance departments for the purpose of issuing life insurance policies.  The statute also established the General Insurance Guaranty Fund (GIGF) to provide protection for policy-holders. From 1919-1991 the program was run as the Division of Savings Bank Life Insurance, Dept. of Banking and Insurance.  It was supported successively by the Massachusetts Savings Insurance League (1906) and the Savings Bank Life Insurance Council (1938, incorporated 1947)
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts, September 18, 2001
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Scope and Content: The Board of Railroad Commissioners was established in 1869.  The board assumed additional functions of the Highway Commission and became the Public Service Commission in 1913.
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