Returns of estimates for expenditures of government departments, 1875-1885.

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Returns of estimates for expenditures of government departments, 1875-1885.

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Department heads and other Massachusetts state officials making estimates for appropriations needed for the coming calendar year were required by St 1872, c 349 to report them to the state secretary on or before Dec. 15 of each year, as filed in this series. The secretary would embody these estimates and his own in a document presented to the General Court in January (H 1)

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