Scope and Content: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was incorporated by St 1848, c 307 to build a railroad eastward from the termination of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad near Troy, New York to unite with the Connecticut River Railroad near Greenfield, Massachusetts.  Establishing this line required tunneling through the Hoosac Mountain.  The project was to have been completed in seven years, but the company was placed into receivership by St 1854, c 226.  Commissioners of a sinking fund, including the state treasurer and auditor and the treasurer of the company, were appointed for the investment, care, and management of the company’s monies.  A six-year extension was granted for completing the railroad but because of setbacks in construction of the tunnel, the project was not finished until 1876.  The property, known as the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel (St 1862, c 156), was consolidated with that of the Fitchburg Railroad Company (St 1887, c 52), although the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company itself continued in existence to 1890.
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Scope and Content: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was incorporated by St 1848, c 307 to build a railroad eastward from the termination of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad near Troy, New York to unite with the Connecticut River Railroad near Greenfield, Massachusetts.  Establishing this line required tunneling through the Hoosac Mountain.  The project was to have been completed in seven years, but the company was placed into receivership by St 1854, c 226.  Commissioners of a sinking fund, including the state treasurer and auditor and the treasurer of the company, were appointed for the investment, care, and management of the company’s monies.  A six-year extension was granted for completing the railroad but because of setbacks in construction of the tunnel, the project was not finished until 1876.  The property, known as the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel (St 1862, c 156), was consolidated with that of the Fitchburg Railroad Company (St 1887, c 52), although the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company itself continued in existence to 1890.
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Scope and Content: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was incorporated by St 1848, c 307 to build a railroad eastward from the termination of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad near Troy, New York to unite with the Connecticut River Railroad near Greenfield, Massachusetts.  Establishing this line required tunneling through the Hoosac Mountain.  The project was to have been completed in seven years, but the company was placed into receivership by St 1854, c 226.  Commissioners of a sinking fund, including the state treasurer and auditor and the treasurer of the company, were appointed for the investment, care, and management of the company’s monies.  A six-year extension was granted for completing the railroad but because of setbacks in construction of the tunnel, the project was not finished until 1876.  The property, known as the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel (St 1862, c 156), was consolidated with that of the Fitchburg Railroad Company (St 1887, c 52), although the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company itself continued in existence to 1890.
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Scope and Content: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was incorporated by St 1848, c 307 to build a railroad eastward from the termination of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad near Troy, New York to unite with the Connecticut River Railroad near Greenfield, Massachusetts.  Establishing this line required tunneling through the Hoosac Mountain.  The project was to have been completed in seven years, but the company was placed into receivership by St 1854, c 226.  Commissioners of a sinking fund, including the state treasurer and auditor and the treasurer of the company, were appointed for the investment, care, and management of the company’s monies.  A six-year extension was granted for completing the railroad but because of setbacks in construction of the tunnel, the project was not finished until 1876.  The property, known as the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel (St 1862, c 156), was consolidated with that of the Fitchburg Railroad Company (St 1887, c 52), although the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company itself continued in existence to 1890.
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts General Court, per Resolves 1901, c 91 (appropriation approved per St 1901, c 532), authorized the expenditure of up to one thousand dollars by the state treasurer to obtain portraits of all treasurers who served the Commonwealth from 1780 to 1899, to be hung in the his offices. Funds still unspent at the end of that session reverted to the Treasury per RL 1902, c 6, s 31; a second appropriation (St 1903, c 204) replaced the funds needed to complete the project, as contained in this series. –The treasurer contracted with the Notman Photographic Co. to complete photographic reproductions of existing painted portraits, silhouettes, daguerreotypes, photographs, or other images of past treasurers and began correspondence with these treasurers or their descendants, historical societies, and museums in an effort to locate such images.  The Boston Evening Transcript, Feb. 15, 1902, published an article on this effort, after which the treasurer requested similar articles from other newspapers, including the New Bedford Standard and the New Bedford Mercury.  (Treasury correspondence from the project is in:  Massachusetts. Treasury Dept. General outgoing correspondence, 1830-1915 ((M-Ar)18X); copies are included with the present series.) –As original images were located, they were photographed by Notman as enlarged platinum prints in uniform size, embellished with India ink and watercolor by artist James Louis Weston, and mounted in identical frames.  Apparently only twenty-six of the thirty-two portraits authorized were actually produced (four are missing) because of an inability to locate original images.  Two additional treasurer portraits produced by Notman  to similar specifications but not authorized by the original legislation are of Edward S. Bradford, 1900-1905, under whose direction the collection was completed, and Frederick Mansfield, 1914-1915.
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Scope and Content: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was incorporated by St 1848, c 307 to build a railroad eastward from the termination of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad near Troy, New York to unite with the Connecticut River Railroad near Greenfield, Massachusetts.  Establishing this line required tunneling through the Hoosac Mountain.  The project was to have been completed in seven years, but the company was placed into receivership by St 1854, c 226.  Commissioners of a sinking fund, including the state treasurer and auditor and the treasurer of the company, were appointed for the investment, care, and management of the company’s monies.  A six-year extension was granted for completing the railroad but because of setbacks in construction of the tunnel, the project was not finished until 1876.  The property, known as the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel (St 1862, c 156), was consolidated with that of the Fitchburg Railroad Company (St 1887, c 52), although the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company itself continued in existence to 1890.
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1863, c 118, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt in the name of the Commonwealth to pay all liabilities incurred in the purchase or manufacture of ordnance or in the building and equipping of iron-clad or other steamers or other fortification for the defense of the Massachusetts coast.  Coupon certificates issued in 1863 and 1864 and valued at 1000 dollars, were due in 1883 with interest paid at six percent semiannually.  Series consists of an interest book recording semi-annual interest payments from 1863-1875. Interest payment records through 1883 are continued in v. 3 of: Interest schedule for temporary loans, 1823-1871 ((M-Ar)1479X).
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to Resolves 1855, c 9, the governor and council appointed a commission to revise, collate, and arrange the statutes of the Commonwealth, by collecting those relating to the same subject matter under appropriate chapters, titles, and sections, following the method used in compiling the Revised Statutes of 1836 (see: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Enacted General statutes, 1859 ((M-Ar)1143X)).  Register of receipt of interest was created to provide an accounting of interest paid at intervals of six months on scrip or certificates of debt issued to finance the project by the state treasurer.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by certificate number
Notes: Spine title: Interest book – consol. General statutes, 1860
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1860, c 200 and St 1862, c 15, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt on behalf of the Commonwealth for financing the filling in and improvement of the lands in the Back Bay of Boston.  Pursuant to St 1869, c 446 and St 1874, c 367, the treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt for financing through the Harbor Commissioners of the purchase and subsequent improvement by the Commonwealth of tidal flats in Boston Harbor.  Register of receipt of interest was created to provide an accounting of interest paid at six-month intervals on the Back Bay loans of 1861 and 1862 (payments for 1862-1880) and the Harbor lands loans of 1870 (payments for 1870-1875) and 1874 (payments 1875-1878).
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