Scope and Content: As part of their function to oversee Boston Harbor and Back Bay lands, the Commissioners on Public Lands (and their predecessors in this function until 1861, the Commissioners on the Back Bay) kept minute books to record their activities and expenditures.  Minutes of their weekly meetings document actions taken to fill and develop the Back Bay, including gaining rights and title to the area, selling and leasing the lands once filled, and laying streets and sewers.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting
Notes: Volume 1, presumably containing minutes of the Commissioners on Boston Harbor and the Back Bay, 1852-1855, is lacking
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Scope and Content: In 1911 responsibility for the care and supervision of Boston Harbor was transferred from the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners to the newly created Directors of the Port of Boston, who were also charged with developing the Port of Boston.  These minutes of their weekly meetings document their activities and decisions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to maintain and supervise the harbors and lands of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Dept. of Public Works and its predecessors in this function (the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, to 1916, the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands, 1916-1919, the Division of Waterways and Public Lands of the Dept. of Public Works, 1919-1927, and the Dept. of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938) were required to account for their activities and expenditures.  Minute books of weekly meetings document measures taken by commissioners to protect harbors and tidewaters and to insure the navigability of harbors.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date of meeting; some chronologically in reverse order within year after 1943
Notes: Additional draft minutes, Apr. 1901-June 1902 (2 volumes), transferred from: Massachusetts. Executive Office of Transportation and Construction. Maps, aerials, photos, plans ((M-Ar)1758)) Docket books retained for 1967-1972 instead of minute books contain ms. annotations and are generally more complete. Minute books for 1939-1942 and 1947-1965 are missing
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Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910.  They were replaced by the Division of Sanitoria in the Department of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names: by 1969, after it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration in Dentistry, established in 1887, was replaced by the Board of Dental Examiners in 1915, placed within the Division of Registration in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration in Dentistry again in 1977.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Board of Gas Commissioners, established in 1885, was renamed Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners in 1889.  That body was abolished in 1919, when its functions were combined with those of the Public Service Commission in the Dept. of Public Utilities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume numbered 1-13; volume 6 (1903-1906) lacking
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Scope and Content: The Board of Railroad Commissioners was established in 1869.  The board assumed additional functions of the Highway Commission and became the Public Service Commission in 1913.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume 1 – Index volume only
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Scope and Content: The Board of Registration of Medicine, established in 1894, was placed within the Division of Registration (Dept. of Civil Service and Registration) in 1919.  It was replaced by the Board of Registration and Discipline in Medicine as of 1976, renamed the Board of Registration in Medicine again in 1979.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Minutes for 1930-1942 lacking
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Agendas (2) Minutes. Arranged within each subseries chronologically.

Notes: Incomplete. Subseries (1) includes: Jan. 1953-June 1954, 1956, 1960-1962, Jan. 1963. Subseries (2) includes: Oct. 1958-Jan. 1960, Mar. 1962-Jan. 1963.

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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Consumers’ Council was an independent state agency serving as public advocate for consumer interests from 1963 to 1981, advising on and representing consumer interests to the state government, promoting consumer education, and from 1970 overseeing the unit pricing of packaging in retail stores.  Minutes of council meetings were created to record council activities and decisions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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