Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts is the chief legal officer of the Commonwealth.  Series documents the attorney general’s answers to legal queries from the legislature, governor, state secretary, and agencies of the executive branch as provided by MGLA c 2, s 9.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Series also includes the Opinion digest, with summaries for opinions issued Mar. 1979-June 1980
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Scope and Content: The Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission was created for purpose of extending and increasing the water supply to the Massachusetts metropolitan water system (St 1926, c375).  The commission was authorized to purchase or take land in the watersheds of the Swift and Ware Rivers to develop the Quabbin Reservoir.  The commission requested opinions of private consultants regarding property to be taken from the northern portion of the Athol branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad.  These opinions offer estimates of the fair market value of the railroad line.
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Scope and Content: Middlesex County was incorporated on May 10, 1643 (Mass Recs 2:38), continuing under successive governments of Massachusetts, most recently the Commonwealth (1780), as outlined in MGLA c 34.  Administrative powers and duties previously exercised at various times under the laws of the Commonwealth by the county courts of general sessions of the peace, county courts of common pleas, and circuit courts of common pleas, were assigned to commissioners in Middlesex and other counties, per St 1827, c 77 (1828).  The government of Middlesex County in this and other respects was abolished as of the effective date of St 1997, c 48 (approved July 11, 1997)
Notes: Pre-1909 orders currently interfiled with: Dockets ((M-Ar)2151X); 1909-1947 orders were also so interfiled before processing, including meeting minutes (now (M-Ar)2153X) and annual reports (now (M-Ar)2156X)
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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 alphabetically by inmate
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Scope and Content: The Temporary Industrial Camp for Prisoners, receiving inmates from other Massachusetts correctional facilities, was opened in 1904 at Rutland.  When a hospital for tubercular prison inmates, also from throughout the state, was completed at the site in 1907, the combined institutions became the Prison Camp and Hospital.  It was closed in 1934 because of construction of the Quabbin Reservoir; inmates were transferred to the State Prison Colony at Norfolk.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Orders for inmates removed to and from hospital (2) Orders for inmates removed to and from camp; Arranged within each subseries by inmate case no
Restrictions: Criminal offender record information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 6, ss 167-178. Subseries (1) restricted: personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository 
Notes: Transferred to Archives from MCI Norfolk, Mar. 1983
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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) Inmates transferred into reformatory (2) Inmates transferred out of reformatory; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
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Scope and Content: The State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Series was created to administer their admission to the institution as follows:
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Files for 1870, 1876-1878, 1883, 1886, 1889-1890, 1892-1894 only; pre-1889 files fragmentary. Box 1: 1870-1890.  Box 2: 1892-1894. Reel GSU 447: 1870-1892.  Reel GSU 448: 1892-1894
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Scope and Content: The state secretary as record keeper of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts receives orders from the General Court.  Series consists of these orders and related documents.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, boxes 5-6, 93C. Box 1: 1782-1838.  Box 2: 1839-1901, 1941
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Scope and Content: In pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, the first Provincial Congress ordered a committee to inquire and report on the proper time for the province to provide a reserve of powder, ordnance, and ordnance stores (Journals, Oct. 24, 1774).  The committee provided an itemized list of proposed ordnance the following day.  Then the congress appointed a Committee of Supplies to work in conjunction with the Committee of Safety to provide for the reception, support, and provision of any militia that might be formed (Journals, Oct, 26, 1774).  The committee continued in existence for only a few months after the resumption of the General Court in July 1775 (Resolves 1775-75, c 371 (Nov. 9, 1775)).  Its work was assisted by a commissary (Journals, Feb. 11, 1775) and a quartermaster general (Journals, Committee of Safety, Apr. 30, 1775) –During the period of the second Provincial Congress, the Committee of Supplies was empowered to purchase military stores and provisions and to deposit them in suitable places for delivery to the troops by the commissary general (Journals, Apr. 29, 1775). The following day the Committee of Safety was able to report (Journals, Apr. 30, 1775) the  presence of ordnance stores at Cambridge and Watertown (at Edward Richardson’s tavern, to which Capt. Waite Foster had been ordered to care for cannon and entrenching tools–Journals, Committee of Safety, Apr. 22, 1775), supply sites that amassed and delivered weaponry and accouterments to the Massachusetts army.  Soon thereafter, the third congress appointed Major Nathaniel Barber ordnance storekeeper at Cambridge (Journals, June 7, 1775), succeeded by Ezekiel Cheever (Journals, June 27, 1775).  Meantime, four storekeepers of officer rank were authorized (Journals, June 19, 1775).  Following his July 1775 assumption of command of the Continental Army in Cambridge, George Washington reorganized Massachusetts ordnance stores and storekeepers.  In August, he appointed Cheever to the position of Commissary of Artillery, later renamed Commissary of Military Stores of the Continental Army.
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Scope and Content: The office of Controller of County Accounts was responsible for accounts and accounting practices of county officials.  Series was created to administer these and related duties.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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