Scope and Content: Three commissioners were appointed by the governor pursuant to St 1853, c 191, to superintend construction of a fire-proof addition to the State House on its north side.  Plans showing completed work were submitted with a report to the legislature (1854 S 76) which was followed by legislation authorizing completion of the project (St 1854, c 462).
Notes: In triplicate
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Scope and Content: Responsibility for water delivery and sewer systems in the Boston metropolitan area has been successively that of the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) and Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (1889-1901); Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); Water and Sewerage Divisions, Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985); and Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (since 1985)
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Scope and Content: Resolves 1935, c 50 authorized the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) and the Dept. of Public Works, acting as a joint board, to investigate the laying, construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of various ways, bridges, beaches, and recreational facilities in the Boston metropolitan area.  The board’s report, filed with the General Court on Dec. 4, 1935 (1936 S 100), was accompanied by these plans, made by the MDC’s director of park engineering.
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Scope and Content: The architectural firm Desmond and Lord collaborated with that of John Carl Warnecke and Associates, becoming Warnecke-Cannon, later known as Cannon.
Notes: Presented to Archives, Apr. 9, 1985, by Warnecke-Cannon
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Scope and Content: Legislation passing the House and Senate of the General Court is sent for engrossing, signed by the speaker of the House and the Senate president, and forwarded to the governor for signature.  A pocket veto occurs when the governor fails to sign a bill passed near the close of the session, leaving the legislature no opportunity to override this action.  Pocket vetoes include the bill packet and engrossed act.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by legislative session, thereunder by bill number
Notes: Series is entered under the Governor’s Legislative Office as the unit that coordinates gubernatorial interaction with the General Court.  Files from 1970-1974, 1976-1980 were transferred to Archives from Massachusetts Regulations Division
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Scope and Content: Middlesex County was incorporated on May 10, 1643 (Mass Recs 2:38), continuing under successive governments of Massachusetts, most recently the Commonwealth (1780), as outlined in MGLA c 34.  Administrative powers and duties previously exercised at various times under the laws of the Commonwealth by the county courts of general sessions of the peace, county courts of common pleas, and circuit courts of common pleas, were assigned to commissioners in Middlesex and other counties, per St 1827, c 77 (1828).  The government of Middlesex County in this and other respects was abolished as of the effective date of St 1997, c 48 (approved July 11, 1997)
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Scope and Content: The Governor’s Office of Human Resources was established by Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1983 to act as a liaison between the governor and human service agencies in Massachusetts in the public and private sectors.  Series was created to advise the governor on human services issues and policy and to communicate the governor’s point of view on issues and policy to state executive offices and other agencies, gubernatorial commissions, federal agencies, advocacy groups, and private organizations.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by issue or agency, thereunder alphabetically by program or issue; additional files on the homeless in boxes 21-22, additional files for 1988-1990 in boxes 23-24.
Notes: Scheduled as two series: Policy development subject files and: State agency administrative files
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Scope and Content: The director of campaign and political finance administers through this office the laws of the Commonwealth regulating political campaigns.  Political committees organized to enhance the political future of a principle must report their finances to the director three times during an election year and annually in other years, until the balance in their account is zero.  The director is charged by MGLA c 55, s 3 to examine these filings for accuracy and compliance with law, and to investigate violations.  This series contains Campaign finance reports (CPF 102) and correspondence relating to filings or failure to file.
Arrangement: Arranged in chronologically progressive sequences, thereunder by identification number
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the state agency responsible for operation and maintenance of commercial aviation, maritime, and (to 2009) certain bridge facilities in and around the Port of Boston.  The engineering unit of its engineering division manages procurement and implementation of Massport design and construction contracts and monitoring of approved projects from proposal to completion, including requesting bids and proposals, and selecting designs and contractors.  Series supports these activities as reference until project completion. –Files may contain legal notices, bids, correspondence, change orders, daily reports, minutes, conformed copy of contract, payment record, and photographs; also as-built plans, summaries, specifications, and land disposition vital records.  Topics include consultant selection, design review, and environmental clearances. –Currently archived files include items relating to lands at or near the Port of Boston, some originating from before the Authority’s establishment in 1956.  Holdings are as follows: acc. 2014/08–Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Shipbuilding Division: (1) Bethlehem-Hingham shipyard plans, 1944; (2) Fore River Yard plans, 1943-1944; (3) Boston yards plans, 1944; (4) Boston yard property maps, 1958. Boston Army Supply Base: (5) Utility atlases and operating plans, 1919 (U.S. War Dept. Construction Division); (6) Survey of condition of structures, 1963 (MassPort). (7) Work summary for transportation systems studies for Third Harbor Tunnel, 1984 (MassPort). (8) Commonwealth Ice and Cold Storage Co. Blueprints, 1913. –acc. 2014/15–(boxes 1-4) Mystic River (1947)/Maurice J. Tobin Memorial (1967) Bridge linking Charlestown and Chelsea: land-taking, engineering, environmental, toll study files, including plans and photographs; (box 5) financial feasibility studies (2008) re possible transfer of Metropolitan Highway System from Massachusetts Turnpike Authority  to Massachusetts  Port Authority;  possible transfer of Tobin Bridge from Massachusetts Port Authority to Dept. of Transportation (accomplished by St 2009, c 25, which also transferred Massachusetts Turnpike Authority  functions to the department).
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), responsible for maintaining the Mystic River (later Tobin) Bridge from Boston to Chelsea, Massachusetts, was authorized by St 1964, c 682 to construct connections between that bridge and another high-level bridge to be constructed over the Charles River between Leverett Circle, Boston proper, and City Square, Charlestown, by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC); cost of the project was to be divided between the two agencies.  Project files were created by the authority’s research/planning division in the course of interagency planning for the proposed bridge.
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