Scope and Content: The Dept. of Mental Health is responsible for mentally ill persons in Massachusetts (and for mentally retarded persons until 1986, when the Dept. of Mental Retardation was established) through a comprehensive program of services and facilities. The department conducts research to assist in its planning, review, and delivery of services to clients and to prepare reports mandated by the legislature, including collection of data about clients and statistics from public and private institutions providing residential care. This includes gathering data on the use of restraint and seclusion as a therapeutic procedure for patients endangering themselves or others, institutionalized at facilities under the department’s jurisdiction.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: To establish accurate Massachusetts town boundaries, beginning in 1885 the Topographical Survey Commission sent out field teams to establish and describe triangulation stations and to set monuments designating boundary lines.  These volumes of resulting horizontal directions, triangle sides, and geographical positions are based on the field notebooks of the survey teams.  Calculations were verified, adjusted, and prepared by the U.S. Coast Survey and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality
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Scope and Content: The Joint Special Committee on the Financial Condition of the Commonwealth, appointed by order of the Massachusetts General Court, in June 1865 requested from each municipality a statement of its indebtness on account of the Civil War, for future reference should the federal government assume responsibility for such indebtness.  Returns from cities and towns contain their responses to this request.
Arrangement: Arranged by county, thereunder alphabetically by municipality
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Scope and Content: The annual compilation of statistics of manufactures in the Commonwealth was mandated by St 1886, c 174, which provided for their collection, tabulation, and publication by the Bureau of Statistics of Labor (later the Bureau of Statistics) as: Annual statistics of manufactures.  The function continued from 1919 under the Division of Statistics of the Dept. of Labor and Industries.  These returns are forms sent out by the division to every manufacturer in Massachusetts, which were filled out and signed by the manufacturer. –Also included is a copy of an industry classification list, which organizes types of industry by classification group number and explains products produced by each industry.  An alphabetical index to product type is in front.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Returns of annual statistics; Arranged chronologically, thereunder alphabetically by city. (2) Returns to be examined. Arranged by industry classification number
Notes: Also known as: Census of manufactures
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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.
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Scope and Content: Successive committees of the House of Representatives were appointed to receive, examine, and pass upon accounts submitted for payment for purchases and services approved by the Revolutionary Massachusetts General Court. From 1780, a joint standing committee of both houses of the Constitutional General Court (by at least 1782 known as the Committee on Accounts) performed the same function. Approved accounts were forwarded to the Council (for concurrence as of 1776), which issued warrants for payment by the Treasury.
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Scope and Content: An orderly book, a collection of daily orders and court martial proceedings, was kept by the adjutant or clerk of each military unit (e.g., company, regiment, brigade) of the Continental Army or Massachusetts militia during the Revolutionary War.  While not normally viewed as state public records, a few of those orderly books relating to Massachusetts units of the period have been deposited at various times with the state secretary
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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(1) Orderly book of Col. Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment, Apr. 27-July 12, 1775. Camp at Cambridge. Collection of orders signed by Samuel Osgood, brigade-major to Gen. Artemus Ward, and Lieut. Christian Febiger, regimental adjutant. Located in: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War ((M-Ar)57X), v. 59, p. 575-651.

(2) Orderly book of Sgt. Maj. Amos Bailey, Col. Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment, July 17-22, 1775. Camp at Cambridge. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 59, p. 551 (i.e., 8 p.).

(3) Orderly book of Capt. Abijah Wyman’s Company, Col. William Prescott’s Regiment, July 7-Dec. 30, 1775. Camp at Cambridge. Presented by Henry P. Kendall, 37 Chestnut St., Brookline, Mass., date unknown. 1 v.

(4) Orderly book of Col. Loammi Baldwin’s (formerly Gerrish’s) Regiment, Jan. 1-Apr. 12, 1776. Camp at Cambridge, Boston, and New York. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 77 (i.e., entire volume).

(5) Orderly book of Col. Ephraim Wheelock’s Regiment, Aug. 18-Nov. 26, 1776. Regiment formed part of Brig. Gen. James Brickett’s Brigade of Massachusetts Militia, camp at Ft. Ticonderoga. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 75, p. 1 – 98.

(6) Orderly book of Capt. Jonathan Houghton’s Company, Col. Jonathan Smith’s Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, Aug. 9-26, 1776 (not continuous). Regiment formed part of Brig. Gen. John Fellows’s Brigade, camp on Long Island. Book kept by Cpl. Nathan Longely. Located in: Muster rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 55, file I, p. 1-14.

(7) Orderly book of Capt. Samuel Sawyer’s Company, Col. Jonathan Smith’s Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, Aug. 22-Nov. 27, 1776. Regiment formed part of Brig. Gen. John Fellows’s Brigade, camp on Long Island and various points around New York City. Located in: Massachusetts archives collection ((M-Ar)45X), v. 293, p. 124 (i.e., 197 p.).

(8) Orderly book of Enoch Titcomb, adjutant of Brig. Gen. Jonathan Titcomb’s Brigade of Massachusetts Militia, Aug. 8-Sept. 4, 1778. Camp at Providence and Rhode Island. Located in: Massachusetts archives collection, v. 327, p. 37 (i.e., 58 p.).

(9) Orderly book of Col. Rufus Putnam’s 5th Massachusetts Regiment, July 8-Oct. 17, 1779. Camp at West Point, Constitution Island, and various places in Westchester County, N.Y. Presented by Rev. Staples, July 19, 1891. 1 v.

(10) Orderly book of Col. John Crane’s 3rd Artillery Regiment, Jan. 27-Mar. 21, 1780. Camp at Morristown, N.J. 1 v.

(11) Orderly book of Lieut. John Davis, adjutant of Col. William Shepard’s 4th Massachusetts Regiment, May 27-July 11, 1782. Camp at Newburgh, N.Y. Cover title: Garrison orders, Highlands, Newburgh. 1 v.
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Scope and Content: As part of their function to supervise the waterways of Massachusetts, the Division of Waterways of the Department 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, and the Department of Public Works as a whole, 1927-1938) conducted surveys of rivers, ponds, and harbors.  Survey notebooks contain computations needed to map rivers.
Arrangement: Arranged by name of river or section
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Arrangement: Arranged by material type, thereunder chiefly chronologically
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Scope and Content: Cushing Hospital in Framingham, Mass., intended for the care and custody of elderly persons, was purchased by the Commonwealth from the federal government in 1955, opened in 1957 under the Dept. of Mental Health, transferred to the Dept. of Public Health in 1984, and closed in 1991. Round the Square as a hospital staff newsletter recorded messages from the superintendent, institutional news of general concern, as well as professional and volunteer activities and personal milestones of staff members.  It was preceded/succeeded by various other similar publications, 1979 and 1990, scattered numbers of which are filed with miscellaneous publications in: Annual reports with real property records and miscellaneous publications, 1947-1991 ((M-Ar)1318S).
Notes: Transferred to Archives by the Public Health Museum, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 2016. From Mar. 1988 subtitle reads: a publication for the employees of Cushing Hospital.  Holdings: Feb. 1982-Oct. 1989. Somewhat irregular, chiefly published monthly. Issues for 1981, Jan. 1982, Mar. 1983, and Jan.1985 lacking
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