Scope and Content: The state treasurer was authorized by the legislature to issue scrip or certificates of debt in the name of the Commonwealth to aid the construction of various railroads throughout Massachusetts.  Transcript of payment of interest was created by the treasurer from information regarding payments on such debt submitted by the treasurers of the Andover and Haverhill Railroad Corporation (St 1837, c 188) and the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company (St 1837, c 84) .
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Scope and Content: The treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts is the sole receiver, custodian, and payer of state funds.  Treasurer’s incoming correspondence (this series) and: Treasurer’s outgoing correspondence ((M-Ar)2269X) document the activities of the Commonwealth’s first eleven treasurers; some records predate the 1780 Constitution, but most are from the terms of treasurers Ivers, Hodgdon, and Davis (1782-1797)
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Scope and Content: The treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts is the sole receiver, custodian, and payer of state funds.  Treasurer’s incoming correspondence ((M-Ar)1804X) and: Treasurer’s outgoing correspondence (this series, in letterbook format) document the activities of the Commonwealth’s first eleven treasurers; some records predate the 1780 Constitution, but most are from the terms of treasurers Ivers, Hodgdon, and Davis (1782-1797)
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Scope and Content: HISTORICAL NOTE: The post-Revolutionary Massachusetts legislature endeavored to collect taxes levied to pay war debt and other state expenses, particularly burdening farmers in the western part of the state.  Angered by foreclosures and imprisonment imposed for tax delinquency and not receiving satisfaction for grievance petitions filed with the legislature, the protesting farmers rioted and closed courthouses under the leadership of Revolutionary veteran Daniel Shays.  The state militia was called out to suppress Shays’ Rebellion in Sept. 1786, in Jan. 1787 a state army was formed for the purpose, and by February the insurgents were defeated. –The state treasury did not have sufficient funds for the quartermaster general and commissary general to supply the army formed to fight the rebellion.  In Jan. 1787, the legislature not being in session to authorize loans or to otherwise secure funds, a group of voluntary contributors met on the date the state army was established (Jan. 4) and pledged monies for the cause. (For initial list of subscribers see: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 189, p. 64-66.)  St 1786, c 50 (Feb. 6, 1787) authorized the borrowing of 40,000 pounds and the issuing of notes to reimburse the contributors at 6% interest.  Notes dated beginning Mar. 1 , 1787 were repaid in three dividends (25% July 1787, 10% Feb. 1788, 20% July 1788), with the total eligible for repayment in Jan. 1789.
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Scope and Content: St 1789, c 47 (Mar. 2, 1790) established a lottery to raise the sum of £10,000 for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  The 1790 lottery was divided into drawings or classes, some performed monthly (with top prizes ranging from
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Scope and Content: As early as the seventeenth century, the Massachusetts legislature provided pensions to soldiers wounded or disabled while in military service. Throughout the Revolutionary War, pensions continued to be issued at the state level to members of the Continental Army, as authorized by the Continental Congress. In addition, Massachusetts also provided post-war bonuses (bounties) in the form of monetary payment or a grant of land in Maine to veterans meeting certain requirements. Because so few individuals were disabled in service or qualified for bounties, the state granted pensions or bounties to only several hundred individuals. From 1789 pensions were funded by the federal government, from 1792 new pensions were administered by it, and from 1806 veterans of state troops and militia were also eligible. From 1818, Congress expanded pension eligibility for Revolutionary War service beyond invalidism, adding thousands to the rolls. However, to qualify, veterans often needed to obtain certificates of service from the state.
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