Scope and Content: Since 1941 governors of the Commonwealth have issued executive orders, to 1964 (along with administrative orders) usually in conjunction with the Wars Powers Acts of 1941 and 1942 and the Civil Defense Act of 1950; and more recently to effect changes in state agency organization and administration.  As record keeper of the Commonwealth, the state secretary (since 1976 through the Massachusetts Regulations Division or Rules and Regulations Division) maintains and publishes the orders pursuant to MGLA c 30A, s 6.
Notes: In two subseries: (1) Executive orders, 1941-2008; –(2) Administrative orders, 1951-1963;  arranged numerically/chronologically in two sequences –arranged numerically/chronologically
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Scope and Content: The state secretary has since 1917 had responsibility for filings of  regulations promulgated by state agencies.  From 1975 (more formally since 1978) a Rules and Regulations  Division (currently called the Massachusetts Regulations Division) within the secretary’s office has been charged with maintaining these filings and since 1976 with publishing them and other documents in the biweekly Massachusetts register, as mandated by MGLA c 30A, s 6.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Issue 1074 (and supplementary) lacking
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Scope and Content: The Division of Administrative Law Appeals in the Executive Office for Administration and Finance (known until 1983 as the Division of Hearings (or Hearing) Officers) hears appeals filed to contest rates set by the Rate Setting Commission for health care providers in the Commonwealth (Massachusetts Rate Setting Commission. Public hearing records, 1962-1989 ((M-Ar)1951)).  A copy of each of the division’s decision in such appeals must be filed in the state secretary’s office.  Filings were maintained by the Public Records Division until mid-1975, when the Massachusetts Regulations Division (or Rules and Regulations Division) assumed responsibility for them.  Decisions contain letter of transmittal and attested text of the decision, which includes the following information:  appellant, what is being appealed, appeal number, who appeared for appellant and respondent at hearing, name of hearing officer, text of decision, and name of preparer.
Arrangement: Arranged by case number, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: The state secretary has since 1917 had responsibility for filings of regulations promulgated by state agencies, which from 1971 to 1975 was carried out by the Public Records Division.  From 1975 (more formally since 1978) the Rules and Regulations Division (currently called the Massachusetts Regulations Division) within the secretary’s office has been charged with these filings.  Regulation files contain regulations and amendments to regulations transmitted to the secretary’s office for filing and publication in the Massachusetts register and the Code of Massachusetts Regulations in accordance with MGLA c 30A, ss 5-6A.
Arrangement: Arranged by regulation code number, thereunder chronologically in reverse order
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged by application number
Notes: Series includes application numbers 13-4376
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Notes: Also known as: House, 1912, no. 1697. Additional copy found with: Massachusetts.  Minimum Wage Commission. Annual reports ((M-Ar)1318(Subseries)).
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Scope and Content: In 1860 and 1861 the General Court appointed successive joint special committees to consider connecting Barnstable Bay with Buzzards Bay by ship canal or channel.  This final report, submitted in Nov. 1862, was signed by both committees.
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Scope and Content: The commission, consisting of Massachusetts General Court members and gubernatorial appointees, was established per Resolves 1962, c 108, as amended by Resolves 1963, c 118, and Resolves 1965, c 2, for the purpose of making an investigation and study of the laws of the Commonwealth pertaining to education, of the educational institutions of the Commonwealth and their organization, of the various school systems therein, and of the educational laws, programs, and school systems of other states, with a view to elevating educational standards in the Commonwealth, reorganizing the scope of various educational boards and administrators of the Commonwealth, revising and modernizing the organizational and financial structure of schools and school systems, extending the facilities, curricula, and educational goals of the schools and colleges of the Commonwealth, and providing increased financial aid for education.
Notes: Transferred to Archives by the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, July 2010. “June, 1965”
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Scope and Content: In 1986 the secretary of state challenged the City of Boston’s 1985 decennial census results; the Decennial Census Commission was established by the governor to investigate.  This series was created to report to the secretary the commission’s findings on the determinatioin and verification of the Boston census.  The report includes a description of the commission’s proceedings and purpose; findings relating to the city’s census process, to the verification and correction of the census, and to the determination and verification of the city population based on other data; and recommendations, including one that the state decennial census be discontinued and that federal census data be used to set the boundaries for state senatorial and representative districts.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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