Scope and Content: St 1780, c 25 (Mar. 7, 1781) required all Massachusetts auctioneers to post bond with the state treasurer, in the amount of one thousand pounds with two sureties. After periodic renewals, the act’s provisions were repealed by St 1789, c 59 (Mar. 9, 1790), which instituted certificates of approbation, such to be obtained by each auctioneer from town selectmen and submitted to the state treasurer for a license.  (Licensing was reduced to a municipal function per St 1795, c 8 (June 16, 1795).)  Series consist of signed and sealed bonds (Mar. 1781-Mar. 1790) stating the legal obligation to pay the amount of bond if the act’s requirements (including a one per cent semi-annual tax on auction proceeds) were not fulfilled.
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Scope and Content: St 1762-63, c 24 (Feb. 24, 1763) established bonds for court clerks of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay to ensure responsible maintenance of court records; bonds of Superior Court clerks were to be delivered to the provincial treasurer. –St 1782, c 9 (July 3, 1782) established the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and allowed the justices to appoint clerks, who were to be duly sworn.  St 1786, c 57 (Feb. 16, 1787) required such clerks to post bond to the state treasurer, to ensure the proper keeping and indexing of court records. –Per St 1796, c 95 (Mar. 11, 1797), clerks for the Court of Common Pleas were also appointed to service the records of the Supreme Judicial Court sessions in their respective counties.  They were to be appointed by that court and were required to post bond with the treasurer. –St 1811, c 8 (June 18, 1811) provided for appointment of court clerks by the governor and council, requiring them to post bond to the treasurer.  St 1830, c 129 (Mar. 19, 1831) again put clerk appointments with the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, not specifying bonding requirements.
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Scope and Content: During the late provincial, Revolutionary, and early Constitutional periods, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts reimbursed physicians for services to  inmates of the almshouse maintained for the town of Boston by its overseers of the poor, so long as such inmates were certified as not being inhabitants of any town of the state (St 1766-67, c 17).  Accounts kept by the physicians were so certified by the almshouse master and chair of the town selectmen and then submitted for approval, in earlier years directly to the governor and council for drawing of a warrant for payment by the state treasurer, later to the Committee on Accounts of the General Court, which then forwarded them to the governor and council.
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Scope and Content: As early as the seventeenth century, the Massachusetts legislature provided pensions to soldiers wounded or disabled while in military service. Throughout the Revolutionary War, pensions continued to be issued at the state level to members of the Continental Army, as authorized by the Continental Congress. In addition, Massachusetts also provided post-war bonuses (bounties) in the form of monetary payment or a grant of land in Maine to veterans meeting certain requirements. Because so few individuals were disabled in service or qualified for bounties, the state granted pensions or bounties to only several hundred individuals. From 1789 pensions were funded by the federal government, from 1792 new pensions were administered by it, and from 1806 veterans of state troops and militia were also eligible. From 1818, Congress expanded pension eligibility for Revolutionary War service beyond invalidism, adding thousands to the rolls. However, to qualify, veterans often needed to obtain certificates of service from the state.
Arrangement: Arranged within each volume alphabetically by first letter of surname
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Scope and Content: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company was incorporated by St 1848, c 307 to build a railroad eastward from the termination of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad near Troy, New York to unite with the Connecticut River Railroad near Greenfield, Massachusetts.  Establishing this line required tunneling through the Hoosac Mountain.  The project was to have been completed in seven years, but the company was placed into receivership by St 1854, c 226.  Commissioners of a sinking fund, including the state treasurer and auditor and the treasurer of the company, were appointed for the investment, care, and management of the company’s monies.  A six-year extension was granted for completing the railroad but because of setbacks in construction of the tunnel, the project was not finished until 1876.  The property, known as the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel (St 1862, c 156), was consolidated with that of the Fitchburg Railroad Company (St 1887, c 52), although the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company itself continued in existence to 1890.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume 1 (Journal): 1849-1855. Volume 2 (Cash): 1855-1863. Volume 1 also includes unidentified entries, 1829
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