Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Since 1963 the department has been under the supervision and control of the Public Works Commission (or board of commissioners–Highways Commission from 1992), which pursuant to MGLA c 16, s 5 meets regularly to approve all contracts (including specifications and all changes), act as a board of contract appeals, and approve or disapprove all claims made under any contract.  Series is created to administer these functions.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by month
Notes:  Scheduled as: Board records; Also known as: Memoranda of recommendations Files for January-September, 1977 lacking
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Since 1963 the department has been under the supervision and control of the Public Works Commission (or board of commissioners–Highways Commission from 1992), which pursuant to MGLA c 16, s 5 meets regularly to approve all contracts (including specifications and all changes), act as a board of contract appeals, and approve or disapprove all claims made under any contract.  Series is created to administer these functions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Scheduled as: Board minutes
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth. At the behest of the governor, and/or per a federal mandate in connection with receipt and expenditure of federal highway funds, various highway planning documents have been commissioned by and/or prepared for the state highway agency. The following plans are currently contained in this series, listed chronologically. With each is cited the container number and whether it is also available in the Massachusetts State Library.
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Scope and Content: As part of its function to maintain boundary lines of the Commonwealth, the Department of Public Works (specifically, until 1927, its Division of Waterways and Public Lands) was required to perambulate state boundary lines every five years to insure that markers and monuments defining them were in place (GL 1921, c1, s4).  Notebooks contain rough notes taken during perambulations in 1920 (1 v.), 1925 (1 v.), and 1930 (2 v.).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder by state boundary
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Pursuant to MGLA c 81, s 5 and c 160, s 104, the department gives public notice of and holds hearings of all parties interested before laying out a state highway or a state highway railroad crossing.  Series is created to administer hearings.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality, thereunder chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Scheduled as: Public hearing records
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways and bridges in the Commonwealth.  Following the flood of 1936 and the hurricane of 1938, the department sponsored surveys of high-water data by the Massachusetts Geodetic Survey to assist in assessing damage to these facilities.  Series consists of two mimeographed reports created after the 1938 survey (Mass. WPA (Works Progress Administration) Project no. 16565): (1) High water data: floods of March 1936 and September 1938 in Massachusetts–with river descriptions including location/bridge site and high water measurements in 1936 and 1938; flood profile charts give data in graphic form  (2) Storm-tide hurricane of September 1938 in Massachusetts–with statistical tables showing relation of storm tide height to tidal plains and data at tidal bench marks.  Tidal storm data charts give data in graphic form with accompanying maps.
Notes: Running title: 1938 flood and hurricane report; Report date supplied by Library of Congress
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Works and its successor from 1992, the Massachusetts Highway Department, have been responsible for development and maintenance of all state highways in the Commonwealth.  St 1956, c 675 authorized transfer of the land and buildings of the former state prison in the Charlestown district of Boston to the Dept. of Public Works for highway purposes, necessitating an examination of title to the land.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: St 1892, c 338 appointed a commission to investigate the condition of roads in Massachusetts, issue a report, and draft a bill providing for the improvement of the highways. This resulted in St 1893, c 476 (rev. St 1894, c 497), which established the Massachusetts Highway Commission, along with a procedure to designate state highways, and funding to be dispersed by the commission. –With St 1900, c 432 and St 1901, c 433 the commission  (replaced by St 1919, c 350, ss 111, 113 with a Division of Highways within the Dept. of Public Works) was directed to assist counties and municipalities in the construction and maintenance of county and town roads even in towns where there were no state highways. St 1909, c 454 relieved certain towns from payment of the cost of repairs to state highways. Various laws directed the use of automobile fees collected by the state to fund highways and roads. St 1921, c 112 was the first to make reference to amending section 34 of MGL c 90, initiating what is still referred to as the Chapter 90 program. St 1925, c 288 further amended the section, making first reference to a so-called highway fund.  The term was used until St 2009, c 25, s 81 substantially changed the section, directing the fees to a Commonwealth Transportation Fund.
Arrangement: Arranged by U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle numbers
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constituent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series was derived from: Social policy correspondence ((M-Ar)1851X)) and consists of printed and other reports including statistical material submitted by constituent departments to the executive office.  Agencies represented: Dept. of Social Services, Dept. of Youth Services, Office for Children.
Arrangement: Arranged by department
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series is created to oversee and support departmental legislative offices and initiatives.
Arrangement: Arranged by agency, thereunder generally chronologically
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