Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office maintained these files of correspondence between the governor and federal agencies and members of Congress concerning federal programs and state-federal matters.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder alphabetically by personal or agency name
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Scope and Content: The Greylock Park Association, established by the Massachusetts General Court per St 1885, c 166, was authorized to obtain and hold lands for a public park on Greylock Mountain in the towns of Adams, North Adams, and Williamstown. –St 1898, c 543 established the Greylock State Reservation and the Greylock Reservation Commission, a three person, governor-appointed board of Berkshire County residents responsible for acquiring land and administering the reservation. The act granted the commission the power and authority to care for, protect, and maintain the reservation on behalf of the Commonwealth. The act also required the Greylock Park Association to transfer title to its land to the Commonwealth, whereupon –The commission was specifically placed under the governor’s department by St 1933, c 336. St 1966, c 444 abolished the Greylock Reservation Commission and transferred the management and operation of Greylock State Reservation to the Dept. of Natural Resources.
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Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission, in conjunction with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, sent out field teams to establish and describe triangulation stations and to set monuments designating boundary lines.  These notebooks contain data recorded by such survey teams, for the commission, for the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, which took over the survey in 1901 and completed it in 1914, and beyond that date, for agencies succeeding the board in its responsibility for state surveying: the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, in 1916; the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Department of Public Works, in 1919; the Department of Public Works as a whole, in 1927; and the department’s Division of Waterways, in 1938.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Descriptions of triangulation stations; arranged by volume number, thereunder by locality (2) Horizontal angles; arranged by survey party, thereunder by locality
Notes: Provenance of books marked duplicate unclear
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Scope and Content: A survey of the Commonwealth was commissioned by the governor in 1830 to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts.  For the trigonometrical phase of the survey, teams took angle measurements from primary and secondary stations as recorded in these field notebooks.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by location
Notes: Preservation of the notebooks was required by Resolves 1834, c 73. Volume 17 duplicates information from volumes 1-2
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Scope and Content: A survey of the Commonwealth was commissioned by the governor in 1830 in order to prepare an accurate map of Massachusetts.  As part of the trigonometrical phase of the survey, traverse surveys of roads as recorded in these field notes were carried out to refine measurements of existing town maps.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850.  It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically in order of examination
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Scope and Content: By its constitutional authority to provide advice and consent to the governor, the Council approves the granting of pardons, including commutations and respites (Const Pt 2, C 2, S 2, Art 8).  Pardon files include all relevant information concerning petitions for pardons and commutations that the Governor has denied or that have become inactive (and which therefore do not require Council endorsement but that are nonetheless maintained by the Council). –For 1907-1935 see: Massachusetts. Council. Council pardon files ((M-Ar)328). For a listing of other related series see: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Records of commissions, proclamations, pardons, and other official documents, 1713-1945 (bulk 1747-1936) ((M-Ar)161X)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by varying spans, thereunder alphabetically by petitioner
Restrictions: Correspondence: Evaluative information restricted by statutory provision; for conditions of access consult repository; MGLA c 4, s 7, c 26 (c ) and c 66A
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18, s 2). The commissioner of public welfare served as chair of the Massachusetts Committee for the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth, which organized Massachusetts participation in the conference held in Washington, D.C. in 1950, creating this series.
Arrangement: Arranged by topic
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Scope and Content: Several groups of Massachusetts commissioners worked with their Connecticut counterparts to resolve disputes that surfaced after the Revolutionary War concerning the boundary between the two states.  An agreement was reached on the section of the line west of the Connecticut River in 1803 and on the line east of the Connecticut River in 1826.  These files were created by the various commissioners and compiled by the state secretary to assist in the resolution of the boundary line dispute.
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s: Miscellaneous Collection, box 64
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Scope and Content: In 1825, 1883, and 1885, the General Court authorized the governor of Massachusetts to appoint commissioners who would work with commissioners from New Hampshire to resolve boundary disputes.  The 1825 commission was unable to work out a line acceptable to both states and a boundary marked in 1741 remained in effect.  The commissioners appointed in 1885 reached agreement on the eastern portion of the boundary in 1888 and on the western portion in 1894.  These files were created by the various commissioners and compiled by the state secretary to assist in the resolution of the boundary line dispute.
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s: Miscellaneous collection, box 64
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