Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the Governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office gathered information to assist the governor in answering correspondence relating to municipal affairs, as maintained in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Notes: Also known as: MSD 1/402
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Scope and Content: The Office of State Planning was formed in 1975 (along with the Management Bureau) by splitting into two units the Office of State Planning and Management of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance.  It became the Governor’s Development Office ca. 1979, was renamed Governor’s Office of Economic Development ca. 1983, and was terminated by 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by municipality
Notes: Transferred from Executive Office of Economic Affairs, where stored after agency reorganization. Files for M-O, W-Y only.  Remainder presumed lost or destroyed
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Scope and Content: Under the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886) and the State Board of Lunacy and Charity (1886-1898), the Dept. of Outdoor Poor was responsible for adults in need of state medical or general assistance not committed to state institutions under the board’s jurisdiction and for juvenile wards of the state under three years of age.  When an infant was committed to the board, it was examined and treated by a medical officer of the department, and was often placed at the Massachusetts Infant Asylum (see: Massachusetts. Board of State Charities. Massachusetts Infant Asylum case histories, 1871-1879 (M-Ar) 541X)), or in a temporary home under the supervision of the board and its medical officers.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by first letter of surname
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration was established in 1886; until 1902 it was known as the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation or the State Board of Arbitration.  It was succeeded in 1919 by the Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, part of the Department of Labor and Industries.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by docket number
Notes: Logs for 1938-1941 missing
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Discharged prisoners, 1877-1898 (2) Released by permit and discharges, 1898-1915; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Cover title: Inmates released
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Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in the Lincoln County area of Maine.  In conducting the lottery, the managers prepared ticket books consisting of stubs and corresponding tickets.  The stub books comprise the numbered stubs from which tickets had been removed for sale, although in each volume a large number remain attached to the stubs.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically
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Scope and Content: The Land Lottery, created by the General Court in 1786 to accelerate the sale and settlement of public lands in the District of Maine, was commissioned to conduct a lottery for the twin purposes of raising revenues and distributing land in Maine.  Lottery chances were sold for townships and lots in in that part of the Lincoln County area between the Penobscot and Schoodic Rivers.  Tickets removed from Lottery stub books ((M-Ar)82X) were presented to those purchasing chances.  Tickets and stubs had corresponding numbers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of certification
Notes: Presented to Cambridge (Mass.) Historical Society by Mrs. William Durant, 1917; transferred to Archives, July 16, 2004
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