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.

Notes: “Report on investigation of affairs at the State Farm in Bridgewater, June 4, 1931”

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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Emergency Committee on Unemployment was created to provide relief to the unemployed during the Depression.  The committee set policy and organized relief efforts in cities and towns to furnish employment, clothing, shelter, education, recreation, and moral support to the unemployed.  The report is a typescript copy detailing the formation and structure of the committee, its policies and programs, and descriptions and syllabi from cooperative educational and vocational programs.  Program reports also contain some correspondence and committee financial records.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1819, c 161, an act to provide for separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state, commissioners were appointed to divide public lands and other property between the two states, including military stores (s 1: 2nd).  Series is a report ordered by the commissioners as an inventory of military stores on hand to be divided two to one between Massachusetts and Maine.
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s miscellaneous collection, box 18
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Scope and Content: The Subdivision of Research and Statistics was established in the Division of Aid and Relief (Dept. of Public Welfare) in 1937.  By 1939 it was renamed Bureau of Research and Statistics and by 1940 was an independent unit within the department.  It was renamed successively: Division of Research and Planning (1970), Division of Statistics and Analysis (1971), Office of Research and Planning (mid-1970s), Office of Research and Evaluation (1979), and Office of Research, Evaluation, and Planning (1983)
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject/title
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Consumer Affairs was established in 1969 as of 1971, and renamed Executive Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation in 1983.
Notes: Partly scheduled as Annual reports
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth was established in 1992 to investigate utilization of resources from the public and private sectors to enhance and improve the ability of state agencies to provide services to gay and lesbian youth, and in the course of its investigations to provide periodic reports to the governor.
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Scope and Content: The Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands was created by the General Court to oversee the management and sale of public lands in the District of Maine.  During the course of its first twelve years, the activities of the committee met with indifferent results.  Consequently in 1795 the General Court directed the committee to suspend all subsequent sales and to prepare a report on its activities from the time of its creation in 1783 (Resolves 1794, Jan 1795 Sess, c 131).  This document, dated June 16, 1795, comprises the report sought by the General Court.
Arrangement: Arranged by tables depicting committee activities
Restrictions: Original restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of the Massachusetts Archives only
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Scope and Content: The House of Representatives of the Massachusetts General Court, primarily through its Committee on (Contested) Elections, reviewed credentials of those representatives whose elections were contested to determine the right of a representative to his seat.  Cases before the committee were those where the validity of the election process or the eligibility of members in regard to conduct, character, or property ownership were questioned.  The committee’s reports were filed with House records and referred to as precedents when further decisions were required.
Arrangement:  In four subseries: (1) Journal of the Committee on Contested Elections, 1780-1834 (bulk 1780-1811)  (2) Draft of book on contested elections, 1834  (3) Papers on contested elections, 1783-1843  (4) Papers for individual town cases, 1777-1843; Within each subseries, arranged chronologically
Notes: Series removed from: Massachusetts. Office of the secretary of State.  House unpassed legislation ((M-Ar) 230), dockets 1134 and 4512-4521 (drawers 82-84).  Additional materials from that series (and from: Senate unpassed legislation ((M-Ar)231)) removed for filming only, as part of subseries (3), 1816-1849, and subseries (4), 1816-1825, then refiled. Box 1: Subseries (1-3), subseries (4), 1777-1809. Box 2: Subseries (4), 1809/1810-1812/1813. Box 3: Subseries (4), 1813-1843
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Scope and Content: The Board of Gas Commissioners, established in 1885, was renamed Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners in 1889.  That body was abolished in 1919, when its functions were combined with those of the Public Service Commission in the Dept. of Public Utilities.
Arrangement: Arranged by docket number
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Health as part of its function to control and prevent disease required municipal boards of health to notify the board of the occurrence of a case of smallpox within twenty-four hours (St 1883, c 138).  Reports record this required information, as well as similar information from other state agencies.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Massachusetts reports; arranged chronologically; (2) Other reports; arranged chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Spine title: Notices–malarial fever and smallpox
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