Financial disclosure files, 1891-1986.
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Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State
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St 1832, c 166 authorized county commissioners in Massachusetts to grant liquor licenses to innholders and retailers. St 1852, c 322 (revised by St 1855, c 215) established state-wide prohibition, forbidding the sale of all liquor except for medicinal, chemical, or mechanical purposes. This was changed by St 1868, c 141, passed in April of that year, which authorized county commissioners (in Suffolk County specially-elected license commissioners) to issue licenses for the sale of liquor in their...
Massachusetts. Lobbyist Section
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Regulation of the activities of legislative agents in the Commonwealth began in 1890. St 1890, c 456 (amended by St 1891, c 223) divided these regulating duties between the sergeant-at-arms of the General Court and the secretary of the Commonwealth. Under the law's provisions, the responsibility for registering legislative agents was the duty of the sergeant-at-arms. He was required to prepare and keep legislative docket books containing the names, residences, occupations, and dates...
Massachusetts. Public Records Division
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The post of Commissioner of Public Records within the state secretary's office was made permanent in 1892, and was succeeded in 1919 by the post of Supervisor of Public Records. The holder of that office has administered the Public Records Division, known until 1952 as the Division of Public Records. From the description of Annual reports, 1889-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122656233 Civil procedures and record-keeping have been fundamental ingredients of...
