Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) was responsible for the supervision, maintenance, policing, and use of land for the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities), including maintenance of its roads and sewers.  The duties of the general superintendent were to supervise the work at each reservation and to report to the MPC secretary.  Outgoing correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) includes reports to the secretary, and correspondence with the supervisors of each reservation and with officials in towns in which reservations were located.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: In 1896 the post of General Superintendent was replaced with a Superintendence Dept
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission, since 1919 has been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities), including maintenance of its roads and sewers.  The Law Office maintained correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) with the Attorney General to provide information concerning land taking, right-of-way, title examinations, appraisals, contracts, and personnel issues, as well as for requesting opinions on these issues for pending cases and on other legal questions not answerable by the Law Office.
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919 have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of the Metropolitan Park District (Boston and Surrounding communities), including maintenance of its roads and sewers.  The secretary for the MPC and later the MDC oversaw the operation of all departments.  Outgoing correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) was created to transact commission business including landtaking, contracts, permits for use of parks, pending legislation, and personnel matters.
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919) has been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities), including maintenance of its roads and sewers.  The secretary for the MPC and later the MDC maintained correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) with Commission’s Law Office and the Attorney General’s Office on legal issues relating to routine operations of the agencies.
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919 have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintenance, policing, and use of the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston, and surrounding communities), maintenance of its roads and sewers.  Part of the responsibility of the secretary of the MPC (later of the MDC) was to transmit administrative orders: to the General superintendent until 1896 when this pedition was abolished and then to a Superintendence Department.
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) was responsible for acquiring land in the Commonwealth to develop a park system in the Boston metropolitan area for public use.  The Claim Dept. settled claims for payment of property taken.  General correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) from the claim agent is addressed to individuals or legal counsel for individuals whose land has been taken, and concerns settlement of the claim.  Correspondence also includes appraisals and reports detailing claims.  For correspondence after 1901 see: Outgoing general correspondence from the Law Dept. ((M-Ar)1122X)
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919) have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition of land for the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities).  To arrange for land taking and finalize the transfer of land, the Law Department Conveyancing Department (Division) maintained correspondence (recorded in letterpress copybooks) with property owners and their attorneys, registers of probate, tax collectors, and with the secretary of the MPC to determine title, execute deeds, settle taxes, settle boundaries and transfer title to land taken.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Scheduled as: Land title search Correspondence
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Scope and Content: Edward Howe Forbush was elected Ornithologist to the State Board of Agriculture in 1894, named State Ornithologist by the state board in 1908, and became director of the Division of Ornithology  (Dept. of Agriculture) in 1919.  Resolves 1921, c 5 authorized the publication of Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States for the purpose of studying the economic value, geographical distribution, and life history of the birds of New England
Arrangement: Arranged by plate number: 1-37, 39-42, 44-93
Notes: Digital surrogates available. Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Agriculture, 1930.  On loan to Museum of Science, Boston, 1930-1961
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Scope and Content: When the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) was established in 1919 as a successor to the Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) and the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, the Engineering Dept. of the MDC’s Parks Division continued the functions of the Engineering Dept. of the MPC.  Known also as Park Engineering, Parks Engineering, and the Parks Engineering Dept., it was designated at least as early as 1953 as the Division of Parks Engineering, until absorbed into the Engineering Division by 1975.
Arrangement: Arranged by project
Notes: Some items in box 14 transferred from: Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission. Construction Division. Water and sewer construction photographs ((M-Ar)889X). Revere Beach Reservation/Lynnway photo album, 1905-1910. Gift of Leonard R. Piazza, Revere, Dec. 2013
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan Park Commission (MPC) (1893-1919) and its successor the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) (since 1919) have been responsible for oversight of the acquisition, maintainance, policing, and use of the Metropolitan Parks District (Boston and surrounding communities).  Among the secretary’s duties was granting of permits to municipalities, private businesses, and individuals for use of parks and waterways under the jurisdiction of MDC.  The secretary maintained this copy as the official record of the permit and forwarded a copy to the superintendent of the MDC park or reservation.
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