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.
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1863, c 118, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt in the name of the Commonwealth to pay all liabilities incurred in the purchase or manufacture of ordnance or in the building and equipping of iron-clad or other steamers or other fortification for the defense of the Massachusetts coast.  Coupon certificates issued in 1863 and 1864 and valued at 1000 dollars, were due in 1883 with interest paid at six percent semiannually.  Series consists of an interest book recording semi-annual interest payments from 1863-1875. Interest payment records through 1883 are continued in v. 3 of: Interest schedule for temporary loans, 1823-1871 ((M-Ar)1479X).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to Resolves 1855, c 9, the governor and council appointed a commission to revise, collate, and arrange the statutes of the Commonwealth, by collecting those relating to the same subject matter under appropriate chapters, titles, and sections, following the method used in compiling the Revised Statutes of 1836 (see: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Enacted General statutes, 1859 ((M-Ar)1143X)).  Register of receipt of interest was created to provide an accounting of interest paid at intervals of six months on scrip or certificates of debt issued to finance the project by the state treasurer.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by certificate number
Notes: Spine title: Interest book – consol. General statutes, 1860
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1860, c 200 and St 1862, c 15, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt on behalf of the Commonwealth for financing the filling in and improvement of the lands in the Back Bay of Boston.  Pursuant to St 1869, c 446 and St 1874, c 367, the treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt for financing through the Harbor Commissioners of the purchase and subsequent improvement by the Commonwealth of tidal flats in Boston Harbor.  Register of receipt of interest was created to provide an accounting of interest paid at six-month intervals on the Back Bay loans of 1861 and 1862 (payments for 1862-1880) and the Harbor lands loans of 1870 (payments for 1870-1875) and 1874 (payments 1875-1878).
Arrangement: Arranged by account, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: St 1892, c 243 allowed, upon approval of the Massachusetts governor and council, partial or full reimbursement by the state of expenses incurred by towns for the maintenance of mentally ill persons in state institutions.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by quarter
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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.
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1863, c 118, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt in the name of the Commonwealth to pay all liabilities incurred in the purchase or manufacture of ordnance or in the building and equipping of iron-clad or other steamers or other fortifications for the defense of the Massachusetts coast.  Registered bonds, issued 1867-1882 to redeem these certificates per St 1867, c 255 and valued at 1000, 5000, and 10,000 dollars, were due in 1883 with interest paid at five percent per annum.  Bonds valued between 10,000 and 199,000 dollars are also included.
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1857, c 220, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt to redeem scrip issued in 1837, 1838, and 1839 to aid in the construction of the Eastern Railroad (Coupon bonds for the Eastern Railroad, 1837-1867 ((M-Ar)1494X).  Registered bonds, issued in 1867 to redeem those certificates per St 1867, c 255, were borrowed on the Massachusetts School Fund and various other sinking funds and were valued at
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1893, c 408, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip or certificates of debt as registered bonds or with interest coupons attached, designated as the Fitchburg Railroad securities loan, to raise finds to aid in the construction of the Fitchburg Railroad.  The proceeds were to be used to purchase bonds of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, owned by the Commonwealth, and set apart in a sinking fund to redeem previously issued scrip.  Registered bonds, issued from 1893 to 1899 and valued from
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1869, c 446, the state treasurer was authorized to issue scrip in the form of registered bonds or certificates of debt with interest coupons attached, to raise funds to purchase lands for the improvement of the flats in Boston Harbor.  Registered bonds, issued in 1870 and valued at 1000 and 5000 dollars, were due in 1875 with interest paid at five percent per annum.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically
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