Bills rendered for support of sick state paupers, 1855-1858.

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Bills rendered for support of sick state paupers, 1855-1858.

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The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872. The institution managed an annual budget to sustain its operations. Attendant financial records include bills and correspondence between almshouse and municipalities relating to medical expenses incurred in caring for and transporting sick paupers.

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Massachusetts. State Almshouse (Monson, Mass.)

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St 1852, c 275 authorized the building of three state almshouses for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth as certified by overseers of the poor or other local authorities, each with a superintendent and three inspectors who could bind out minors as apprentices. St 1853, c 352 appropriated funds for almshouses in Bridgewater, Monson, and Tewksbury, which opened in 1854. St 1855, c 366 provided for recording by the almshouse superintendent of birth and deaths and the making ...