Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security (until 2005: Joint Committee on Public Safety), a standing committee of the Massachusetts General Court,  considers all matters concerning laws relating to shipping or otherwise transporting energy sources, the safety of the public, including civil defense, firearms and gun control, fire laws, motor vehicle laws, motor vehicle safety belts (including school buses), the correction system including administration, prisoners’ rights, furloughs, work release, probation, rehabilitation, homeland or Commonwealth security matters, other matters related to federal affairs, including, but not limited to, the prevention of terrorist attacks, the reduction of the vulnerability to terrorism; the minimizing of the damage and recovery from possible attacks that may occur, and the coordination of homeland security related activities of the Commonwealth with those of the Federal Government, including certain confidential and guarded information and other matters referred. It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation.  Legislative files are compiled to document legislation considered by the committee.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year/session, thereunder by chamber, and then by bill number
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Public Service, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning salaries, civil service, and retirement of public employees (including retirement of but excluding salaries of members of the judiciary); collective bargaining for state employees and other public employees; and other matters referred.  Legislative files are compiled to document legislation considered by the committee.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year (biennially from 1997-1998), thereunder by chamber, and then by bill number
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Scope and Content: The Joint Standing Committee on Roads and Canals considered proposed legislation for extending and improving a canal from Northampton to Northfield and for generally improving navigability in the Connecticut River Valley.  Consideration of these bills culminated, following committee report 1827 H 45, in the passage of St 1827, c 128 (1828), which authorized the Hampshire and Hampden Canal Company to construct and maintain a canal from Northampton to the northern border of the Commonwealth.  Legislative files are documents referred to or created by the committee during these considerations.
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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.  Legislative files are compiled to document legislation considered by the committee.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by chamber/bill number
Notes: Files for 1986 lacking
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Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Transportation, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning development, operation, regulation, and control of all means of transportation in the air, on land, or in the water; the imposition of tolls on tunnels and bridges; and other matters referred.  Legislative files are compiled to document legislation considered by the committee.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by chamber, and then by bill number
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Scope and Content: The Water Division of the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) was responsible for both the adequacy of supply and the purity of water provided to the Metropolitan Water District (Boston and surrounding communities).  For this purpose, the division was empowered to construct, operate, and maintain reservoirs, aqueducts, and other waterworks (GL 1932 (Ter Ed) c 92, s 10 et seq.).  Legislative files were created to obtain legislation favorable to the goals of the division.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Legislative files were part of an administrative file that was selectively retained by the Archives.  See also series (M-Ar)569X, (M-Ar)894X, and (M-Ar)895X
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Scope and Content: The Pardon and Parole Commission was established in 1919 to investigate the pardon and parole system of Massachusetts and specifically the granting of pardons by the Governor Charles F. Hurley in 1938 to Raymond L. S. Patriarca, John S. Tartar, and others, and the actions of Governor’s Councillor Daniel H. Coakley, who was impeached and removed from office in 1941.  Series was created during the work of the commission.
Notes: Associated Materials – Sidney A. Aisner papers; Files on impeachment of Daniel H. Coakley: Harvard Law School Library. Cambridge, MA 02138
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration established in 1916, replaced successively by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922 and the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1962.

Arrangement: Arranged by subject

Notes: Combines two series scheduled for previous retention in agency as: Legislative information files; General legislative issues

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Scope and Content: The Council (under the governor except 1775-1780) functioned as the executive counterpart of the upper house of the General Court under the colonial charter, 1629-1686; as the executive (sole) government, 1686-1689; and both as upper house of the General Court and executive body under the revival of colonial government, 1689-1692, under the provincial charter, 1692-1774, and in the later Revolutionary period, 1775-1780.  (There was a rival Council appointed by the English Crown under Gov. Thomas Gage, 1774-1776.)  Under the 1780 Constitution it is an advisory executive body to the governor separate from the General Court.  Legislative records (formerly known as: Court records) document the Council’s legislative function as General Court upper house during the intercharter (1689-1692 only), provincial, and Revolutionary periods.  (For the Constitutional period see below.)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of General Court session
Notes: Records in general are transcripts, some from British State Paper Office made in the 1840s (see finding aid below).  To 1776 many draft originals are in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 81-86. (For details see finding aid below.  Vol. 70, p. 157-158 includes draft minutes of the Council for Safety of the People and Conservation of the Peace, May 11, 1689.  Additional Massachusetts archives collection holdings not yet determined.)  From Oct. 1780 source document is: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Senate journal ((M-Ar)531)
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Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts is the Commonwealth’s chief legal officer.  The Executive Bureau, which includes the attorney general and personal staff, is responsible for the overall supervision of the legal services provided by the office, for budgetary and personnel matters, and for the development of a uniform and consistent legal policy for the state.  Series is created by the bureau to review and enable the attorney general to testify regarding legislation pending in the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder by subject
Notes: Box [1]: Thomas Reilly, 1999-2006
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