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 cover the financing of construction of various railroads and state institutions; improvement of lands owned by the Commonwealth; public defense; public debt; and for temporary loans. St. 1867 c 255 (May 20, 1867) allowed the treasurer to issue registered bonds in exchange for or in lieu of coupon bonds.  Series consists of volumes recording semi-annual interest payments to holders of registered bonds from a variety of different state bond issues.
Arrangement: Arranged by account, thereunder by date interest due
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Scope and Content: The state treasurer was authorized by the legislature to issue scrip or certificates of debt to meet expenses incurred during various construction projects or other state obligations. Often scrip was issued over several years for the same project. Registers of receipt of interest were created to provide an accounting of interest paid.
Arrangement: Arranged by account, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Series title formerly: Registers of receipt of interest on scrip for state construction
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1861, c 216 and St 1862, c 147, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt on behalf of the Commonwealth to meet expenses incurred for the public defense and for the discipline and instruction of a military force.  Registers of receipt of interest were created to provide an accounting of interest paid on the Union Loan Fund at six-month intervals.
Arrangement: Arranged by account, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Spine titles: (1-2) Interest on Union loan (3) Union loan of 1861. Volumes are arranged by the year of the loan, certificate amount, % interest paid/payment dates, and by certificate number: 1861/100 dollars: (v.1) 1862-1871; 1861/500 dollars: (v.2) 1862-1871; 1861/1000 dollars: (v.3) 1861-1872/5%-6% (v.4)1862-1866/6% (v.5) 1866-1872/6%; 1862/500 dollars: (v.6) 1863-1878/5%; 1862/1000 dollars: (v.6) 1863-1867/5% 1867-1875/6%. For additional 6% 1875-1876 see: Registers of interest received on scrip of 1852-1856, 1852-1880 ((M-Ar)1470X (v.4)).
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volumes by date of issue: (1) 1860-1864  (2) 1863-1875; by date of initial interest payment: (3) 1874-1883. Spine titles: Volume 1–Interest book: Troy & Greenfield, 1860; Volume  2–Troy & Greenfield R.R. loan
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Scope and Content: The state treasurer was authorized by the legislature (St 1863, c 218; St 1864, c 65 and c 130) to issue scrip or certificates of debt to finance reimbursement of cities and towns for bounties paid to volunteers enlisted and mustered into military service, until revenue for that purpose was available through the bounty tax (see: Bounty tax reimbursed, 1863-1869 ((M-Ar)2410X)). Registers of receipt of interest were created to provide an accounting of interest paid at six-month intervals on these loans.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by certificate number
Notes: Volumes arranged by loan and interest date:

• 1863/1864-1865
• 1864/1864-1882–500 dollars only
• 1864/1865-1867
• 1864/1867-1868
• 1864/1869-1870
• 1864/1870-1874 (1874-1882)
• 1864/1875-1880
• 1864/1881-1882

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Scope and Content: Massachusetts established hospitals to provide residential care and treatment for mentally ill persons. Authorized by St 1873, c 239, the construction of Danvers Lunatic Hospital (later Danvers State Hospital) was funded per St 1874, c 391, to accommodate the overflow from the Boston Lunatic Hospital (later Boston State Hospital) and the asylum at the State Almshouse at Tewksbury. Established by statute as the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, it was known as the Danvers Lunatic Hospital. It opened in 1878. –The first state-funded institution for the mentally ill in Massachusetts, the State Lunatic Hospital (renamed Worcester Lunatic Hospital (St 1862, c 223, s 1), now Worcester State Hospital) was established per St 1832, c 163 and opened in 1833. A new enlarged facility was authorized by St 1870, c 238. Pursuant to St 1875, c 160, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt to meet expenses incurred during the construction of the new facility, opened in 1877. The original buildings were designated for use by the Temporary Asylum for the Chronic Insane per St 1877, c 227.
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: St 1832, c 166 authorized county commissioners in Massachusetts to grant liquor licenses to innholders and retailers. St 1852, c 322 (revised by St 1855, c 215) established state-wide prohibition, forbidding the sale of all liquor except for medicinal, chemical, or mechanical purposes. This was changed by St 1868, c 141, passed in April of that year, which authorized county commissioners (in Suffolk County specially-elected license commissioners) to issue licenses for the sale of liquor in their respective counties. The act required commissioners to forward half the proceeds of the license fees to the city or town, and the other half to the state treasurer. St 1869, c 191 (Apr. 24) repealed such licensing.  St 1869, c 191 (Apr. 24). St 1869, c 415 (June 19) again severely limited liquor sales, but St 1875, c 99 reinstated the sale of liquor and the license system, with responsibility for issuing licenses given to municipal authorities.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality
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Scope and Content: In Massachusetts the office of county sheriff, established by the 1691 charter of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, has carried law enforcement and correctional responsibilities, including having charge of jails and houses of correction (St 1699-1700, c 9, July 14, 1699), execution of precepts and other processes for the courts (St 1783, c 44, Mar. 12, 1784), and transportation of prison inmates to and from court (St 1983, c 721, s 2); also, at one time, collection of taxes as needed in lieu of the local constable or tax collector (St 1692-3, c 2, June 14, 1692) and distribution and collection of ballots and election returns (St 1833, c 68)
Arrangement: Files for 1776-1805 (box 1) are arranged alphabetically by county.  Files for 1855-1881 (box 2) are arranged chronologically by a numbering system created by the Treasury in the late nineteenth century
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