Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1895, c 284 and RL 1902 c 10, s 17, the State House Commission approved state agency requisitions for new furniture and fixtures for the State House and other state office buildings.  Minutes were created to record commission actions and decisions in this area.
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Scope and Content: The Teachers’ Retirement Board administers the Teachers’ Retirement System for public school teachers of Massachusetts. Minutes are created to record and administer its votes on allotment of pensions and related matters Information includes meeting date, time, place, and attendees; and particulars of allotment of benefits to retiring teachers and disposition of benefits for deceased teachers

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Scope and Content: The Worcester City Hospital was established by state mandate in 1871, reconstituted in 1953, placed under the Worcester Health and Hospitals Authority in 1990, and closed in 1991.  It was then placed under interim management of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and since the authority’s dissolution in 1993 has been operated as the center’s City Campus.
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Scope and Content: State responsibility for the insane was assigned to the State Board of Lunacy and Charity per St 1886, c 101. In an era of heavy immigration, Massachusetts sought to relieve taxpayers of the burden of supporting insane persons originating from other states or countries, who were being cared for in Massachusetts state institutions. The board’s Committee on the Removal of Insane Persons out of the State (board chair, vice-chair, and one other board member–first mentioned in the board’s 1894 annual report (p.4)) proposed names of those to be returned to their place of origin; these recommendations were acted on by the board at its monthly meeting and implemented by the Superintendent of Indoor Poor. The State Board of Lunacy and Charity was replaced by the State Board of Insanity in 1898.
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Scope and Content: The Division of Fiscal Affairs and Management of the Board of Regents, under the vice chancellor for fiscal affairs and management, is responsible for overall budgetary planning and facility management for the state system of higher education.  Minutes of the boards of trustees for individual institutions are submitted to apprise the vice chancellor of policy decisions made on the institutional level that will have fiscal ramifications.  These policy decisions then become a factor in preparing the annual budgetary request to the General Court.  The minutes are the primary record of decisions and discussions of policy issues undertaken by the boards of trustees for individual community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Minutes of community colleges (2) Minutes of colleges (3) Minutes of universities; Arranged within each subseries alphabetically by institution, thereunder chronologically
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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 Dept. of Labor and Industries.
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Arrangement: Arranged by agency, thereunder chronologically

Notes: Reels numbered 1-8; duplicates of 1-5, 7-8

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Scope and Content: As part of his responsibility as the supervisor of the Walter E. Fernald State School serving mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts, Dr. Malcom J. Farrel sat as a member of the Advisory Committee on Mental Hygiene and Community Activities of the Department of Mental Health.  The minutes document decisions on applications for federal assistance for community mental health projects.
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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.
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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.
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