Scope and Content: Under the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886) and the State Board of Lunacy and Charity (1886-1898), the Dept. of Outdoor Poor was responsible for adults in need of state medical or general assistance not committed to state institutions under the board’s jurisdiction and for juvenile wards of the state under three years of age.  When an infant was committed to the board, it was examined and treated by a medical officer of the department, and was often placed at the Massachusetts Infant Asylum (see: Massachusetts. Board of State Charities. Massachusetts Infant Asylum case histories, 1871-1879 (M-Ar) 541X)), or in a temporary home under the supervision of the board and its medical officers.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by first letter of surname
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration was established in 1886; until 1902 it was known as the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation or the State Board of Arbitration.  It was succeeded in 1919 by the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, part of the Department of Labor and Industries.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by docket number
Notes: Logs for 1938-1941 missing
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Discharged prisoners, 1877-1898 (2) Released by permit and discharges, 1898-1915; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Cover title: Inmates released
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Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in the Lincoln County area of Maine.  In conducting the lottery, the managers prepared ticket books consisting of stubs and corresponding tickets.  The stub books comprise the numbered stubs from which tickets had been removed for sale, although in each volume a large number remain attached to the stubs.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically
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Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in Maine.  Lottery chances were sold for townships and lots in in that part of the Lincoln County area between the Penobscot and Schoodic Rivers.  Tickets removed from Lottery stub books ((M-Ar)82X) were presented to those purchasing chances.  Tickets and stubs had corresponding numbers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of certification
Notes: Presented to Cambridge (Mass.) Historical Society by Mrs. William Durant, 1917; transferred to Archives, July 16, 2004
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Environmental Management, which has general care and oversight of the natural resources of the Commonwealth and adjacent waters, maintains series relating to these functions created by earlier agencies.  Series was created by the Division of Metropolitan Planning of the Metropolitan District Commission, an agency mandated for transportation planning, to show population trends in the Metropolitan District (Boston and surrounding communities).
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to oversee, protect, and develop the waterways of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor Commissioners, to 1879, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, 1879-1911, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1916-1919, the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Dept. of Public Works, 1919-1927, and the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938), gathered, created, and maintained maps and plans.  Series includes those filed in accordance with MGLA c 91, regulating structures and activities within tidelands and waterways, as well those created or gathered in support of development and improvement projects. –Included are topographical maps, survey (including U.S. Geological Survey) maps, senatorial district maps, and detailed construction plans, of varying size and medium, including printed, hand drawn, traced, and blueprint.  Topics include harbor lines; soundings in harbors, rivers, and ponds; proposed dredging for channels; town and state boundaries and location of boundary markers; plans for terminal facilities (some including railroad yards); and dry docks, wharves, and bridges.  Information may include authorizing legislation, license or permit no. assigned by Waterways officials, title, cartographer, date, and locality.
Arrangement: In two parts: Part A (W1-574); Part B (W601-6210)
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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.
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Scope and Content: Sylvanus Thayer was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1808, served as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 1817-1833, and was then U.S. Army engineer in charge of construction of fortifications at the entrance to Boston Harbor and of improvements to New England harbors generally; he retired from the Army in 1863 with the brevetted rank of  brigadier-general.  He established the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in 1867, and provided a fund for a public library in Braintree, Mass., his residence.
Notes: Pieces encapsulated. Deposited at Archives on permanent loan by Braintree Historical Society, Apr. 24, 1986
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