Scope and Content: The Joint Board on Metropolitan Improvements investigated public works and transportation issues relating to the Boston Metropolitan District.  The secretary of the Metropolitan Park Commission served as the secretary to the board and maintained its correspondence.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Scheduled under and transferred to Archives, Nov. 1989, by Parks Division, Metropolitan District Commission
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts Resolves 1846, c 117 appointed Commissioners on Idiocy to inquire on: the condition of idiots in the commonwealth and if anything can be done for them. The commission’s report, written by Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, led to the establishment by Resolves 1848, c 65 of the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children, located at the Perkins Institution. The school was incorporated as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth (St 1850, c 150), located near Perkins in South Boston, with Howe serving as president until his death in 1876. It was renamed the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded by St 1883, c 239, reflecting the establishment of a separate asylum department for those beyond school age or not capable of being helped by the school’s instruction. Funds for the construction of a new facility in Waltham were provided by Resolves 1888, c 82, and occupation of the new site began in 1890, with the South Boston facility closing in 1892. St 1925, c 293 renamed the institution the Walter E. Fernald State School, in honor of the superintendent of the school, 1887-1924. A 2003 gubernatorial initiative to close the Fernald School (known as the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center since 1993) by 2007 was contested during the subsequent decade, until the institution was shut down permanently in Nov. 2014.
Restrictions: Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The State House Building Commission was established in 1913 to oversee construction of east and west wing additions to the State House.  Outgoing correspondence was created in fulfilling this responsibility.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872.  The State Primary School, opened at the almshouse in 1866 and continuing after its closing 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 consisting of letterpress copies of replies to correspondence to the institutions’ superintendent was maintained to administer them.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Vols. 28-30 transferred to: Correspondence concerning placement applications ((M-Ar)916X)
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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 respond to comments and inquiries regarding the mission of the attorney general’s office.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Formerly designated as series N314. Box 1: Thomas Reilly, 1999-2002. Box 2: Thomas Reilly, 2002-2006
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically
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