Treasurer and Receiver General (Record Group TR)

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The Treasurer and Receiver General, a constitutional officer, is custodian of all state funds, and is responsible for receiving state agency receipts and revenues, making payments, issuing and marketing state bonds, and arranging state investments. With material dating back to the 18th century, this voluminous record group covers all aspects of the state's financial records. Other records in the TR record group include deeds for property owned by the Commonwealth, documents relating to bonuses for veterans, and records of the Arts Lottery Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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Description: The Treasurer and Receiver General, a constitutional officer, is custodian of all state funds, and is responsible for receiving state agency receipts and revenues, making payments, issuing and marketing state bonds, and arranging state investments. With material dating back to the 18th century, this voluminous record group covers all aspects of the state's financial records. Other records in the TR record group include deeds for property owned by the Commonwealth, documents relating to bonuses for veterans, and records of the Arts Lottery Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Digital Origin: Materials accessible in the Digital Repository are only those records in digital format. All other original materials are located at the Massachusetts Archives.

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Massachusetts Cultural Council

St 1989, c 653, ss 14-16 abolished the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and the Massachusetts Arts Lottery Council, combining their functions in the Massachusetts Cultural Council, effective 1990. Appointed by the governor and placed in the office of the state treasurer, the council is mandated to review facilities, activities, and needs of public and private institutions in the Commonwealth and fund programs concerned with the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences; to serve as administrator of funds received by the Commonwealth under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 (PL 89-209); and to administer the State Arts Lottery Fund, allocating its monies to regional and local arts councils. The council's functions are currently described in MGLA c 10, ss 52-58.

William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth