Returns of expenditures by state police before court in 1873, 1874.

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Returns of expenditures by state police before court in 1873, 1874.

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Per order of the Massachusetts Senate (120 S 1874), the state secretary was to determine from clerks of the superior, municipal, district, and police courts, and from trial justices in the counties, the amount of expenditures, costs, and fees paid or incurred in prosecutions instituted or conducted by the state police (i.e., the local constabulary collectively; cf. GS 1860, c 18, ss 60-70) during 1873. Series consists of printed forms containing responses from judicial officials to the secretary's request for that information.

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