Scope and Content: The Joint Committee on Public Service, a standing committee of the General Court, considers all matters concerning salaries, civil service, and retirement of public employees (including retirement of but excluding salaries of members of the judiciary); collective bargaining for state employees and other public employees; and other matters referred.  It drafts, reviews, and holds hearings on proposed legislation, as documented in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
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Scope and Content: The Committee on Ways and Means, a standing committee of the Senate,  considers all legislation affecting the finances of the Commonwealth and other referred matters, as documented in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year
Notes: Files for 1976-1977, 1983 only
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Scope and Content: In connection with a robbery and murders committed Apr. 1920 in South Braintree, Massachusetts, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were indicted Sept. 1920 and prosecuted and convicted in 1921 in Norfolk Superior Court.  After reviews of the trial and conviction by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and by an advisory committee appointed by Gov. Alvan T. Fuller and denial of petitions by defense counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court, the sentence of execution originally imposed on Sacco and Vanzetti was carried out on Aug. 23, 1927.
Notes: Originals presented to Harvard by Henry A. Yeomans and Nora A. Dwyer, 1948; microfilm provided to the Massachusetts Archives to forestall an action of replevin against Harvard by the supervisor of public records on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, per agreement Dec. 12, 1977
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Scope and Content: The Revolutionary War Bicentennial Commission (or Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission) was established in 1964 to plan the observance by Massachusetts of the bicentennial of the historic events preceding the Revolutionary War.  As such it helped to prepare, arrange, and coordinate bicentennial events throughout the state.  Series was created to administer application for and funding of matching grants for cities and towns for bicentennial projects and activities (awarded by the Executive Office of Education, per St 1974, c 686) and to organize and oversee events, contests, and programs sponsored by the commission.
Notes: Transferred to Archives from the Executive Office of Communities and Development
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to Resolves 1969, c 61, a special commission consisting of three members of the Senate, seven members of the House of Representatives, the superintendent of schools of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and twenty-two others was charged with examining the degree of need for granting public aid to nonpublic primary and secondary schools and reporting to the General Court before the first Wednesday of January 1971.  This set of unofficial files, maintained by the archdiocese during the commission’s study, consists of minutes of meetings, transcripts of public hearings, surveys and reports, correspondence, and newspaper clippings and other printed material.
Notes: Records were transferred to the Archives from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston
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Scope and Content: The Hazardous Waste Facility Site Safety Council was an independent Massachusetts state agency responsible in conjunction with the Dept. of Environmental Management and the Dept. of Environmental Protection for overseeing siting of hazardous waste treatment facilities from 1980 to 1996.  Siting process as administered by the council included receiving and reviewing developer’s proposal and facilitating negotiations among developer and affected communities prior to the reaching of a siting agreement declared operative by the council.  Council work was delegated to various working committees or subcommittees; series was created to document their discussions and recommendations.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by committee
Notes: Includes audio cassettes. Subcommittee lists with personnel in box 1
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Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Massachusetts accounts (2) Ordnance accounts; (3) Receipts; arranged within each subseries by account arranged chronologically by date of payment
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by subgrant no
Notes: 1980-1983 files removed from: Reports and studies ((M-Ar)401) Box 1: 1980-1981.  Box 2: 1982.  Box 3: 1982-1983. Box 4: 1983- 1984.  Box 5: 1984-1985.  Box 6: 1986.  Box 7: 1987-1988.  Box 8: 1988-1989.  Box 9: 1989-1991.  Box 10: 1991-1992
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Notes: 1980-1983 files removed to: Juvenile justice grant files ((M-Ar)436)
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