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 during processing
Restrictions: Evaluative information restricted by statutory provision; MGLA c 4, s 7, cl 26(c) and c 66A.  For conditions of access, consult repository
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Scope and Content: St 1877, c 214 provided that the chief of the State Detective Force appoint inspectors of factories and public buildings. The State Detective Force was replaced by the District Police by St 1879, c 305, which provided that the governor appoint inspectors of factories and public buildings from among their number. The Inspection Dept. of the District Police was established per St 1888, c 113.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by inspector, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: As part of its responsibility for preserving historic structures and sites in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Historical Commission assembles documentation of sites and structures included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places and/or the State Register of Historic Places prior to their renovation, alteration, or destruction, as a means of recording their histories and thus complying with the Federal Historic Preservation Act (1966).  Compliance files include Historic American Engineering Record reports, Historic American Buildings Survey reports, and other reports submitted by architects and contractors.
Notes: Collated: 1982-1993
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Scope and Content: As part of its responsibility for preserving historic structures and sites in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Historical Commission issues posters with photographs of such structures and sites to publicize its mission.  Series currently includes four items  commemorating the commission’s twenty-fifth anniversary, 1988, and four (in duplicate) commemorating its thirty-fifth anniversary, 1998.
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Scope and Content: As part of the Massachusetts Historical Commission’s responsibility for identifying and protecting historic sites in Massachusetts, the commission’s state preservation officer acts as the go-between for individuals and developers seeking federal tax breaks under the Tax Reform Act of 1976 for rehabilitation work done to “certified historic structures” (366 CFR pt 67).  In addition the preservation officer makes recommendations about rehabilitation work to the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior, the federal agencies that oversee the program.  Tax certification files include applications for historic preservation certification (containing name and address of property owner, location of structure, photographs of the interior and exterior of the building before and after rehabilitation work is completed) and correspondence of the state preservation officer with all interested parties regarding the status of these applications.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by varying spans, thereunder alphabetically by municipality
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Scope and Content: The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), as part of its mission to promote planning initiatives addressing statewide historical records needs and issues, funded the Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board (MHRAB)’s 1997-1999 project to write a historical records strategic plan for the Commonwealth. The resulting plan (A community treasure: strategic plan for Massachusetts historical records) served as a road map for the 1999-2001 Massachusetts Documentary Heritage Grant Program, a competitive regrant program funding local projects to promote the documentation, preservation, and use of historical records in Massachusetts. –To fund the program, the MHRAB received –Grants funded reflected MHRAB strategic planning priorities of the identification of, preservation of, access to, awareness of, and education regarding historical documentation in Massachusetts, and of community documentation and collaborations among municipal clerks, public libraries, museums, educators, and historical societies. Projects included: hiring of consultants to survey records and develop local documentation plans, statewide documentation of ethnic and immigrant groups, statewide teacher archival education, community church/religious societies documentation, community economic/manufacturing documentation, agriculture documentation, and appraising municipal video/audio/media collections.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by grant cycle, thereunder by project/locality
Notes: Containers by cycle/grant: Box 1: (1) 1-34. Box 2: (1) 35-39 (2) 1-12 (3) 1-7. Box 3: (3) 8-20 (4) 1-9. Box 4: (4) 10-32. Box 5: (5) 501-525. Box 6: (5) 526-540
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Scope and Content: The Archives Advisory Commission was established in 1973 to advise the state secretary on archival matters and, and as the Massachusetts Historical Records Advisory Board from 1976, to serve as the state-level body for proposals submitted to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant program. Minutes of quarterly meetings document the activities and decisions of the commissions.
Arrangement: 1985-1995: Arranged chronologically in reverse order
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Scope and Content: The Division of Insurance of the Department of Banking and Insurance is responsible for the regulation of insurance business in Massachusetts.  This series was created and compiled to assist the division in developing historical information for speeches and reports and in answering correspondence.  It is composed of clippings, research notes, correspondence, speeches, and unpublished papers pertaining to the history and development of the division and biographical materials relating to commissioners and other staff members.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
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Scope and Content: St 1851, c 342 provided for a board of commissioners in relation to alien passengers and state paupers (as potentially related classes of persons), commonly called the Board of Alien Commissioners and consisting of a Council member appointed by the governor, the state auditor, and the superintendent of alien passengers for Boston. The first duty the act assigned was for the Board to appoint persons to annually visit almshouses and other institutions holding those alleged to be state paupers to determine whether laws pertaining to the status,  support, local settlement, and work requirements of such paupers were being upheld. The commissioners also worked towards the establishment of state almshouses (St 1852, c 275, ss 1-10). St 1863, c 240 transferred these functions to the succeeding Board of State Charities.
Arrangement: In six subseries
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Scope and Content: Under the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886) and the State Board of Lunacy and Charity (1886-1898), the Dept. of Outdoor Poor was responsible for adults in need of state medical or general assistance not committed to state institutions under the board’s jurisdiction and for juvenile wards of the state under three years of age.  Visitors for the department’s unit for the sick state poor were charged with determining the status of and care for foundlings or other deserted children, as had been done earlier done under the Board of State Charities (see: its Massachusetts Infant Asylum case histories, 1871-1879 (M-Ar) 541X)). Attempts were made to identify the parents of the deserted children, in order to procure sources of child support.
Arrangement: Arranged by case no./chronologically
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