Report on State Administration and Expenditures: Submitted to the General CourtWright & Potter printing Company, state printers, 1922 - 102 pages |
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accounting system adminis ADMINISTRATION AND EXPENDITURES Administration and Finance Administrative Cabinet administrative departments agency Agriculture annual appointed appropriation ASSO auditing Auditor Banking Berkeley Berkeley BOSTON budget CALIFORNIA LIBRARY central purchasing chapter 350 character cities and towns civil service clerical collected Commission recommends commissioner in charge COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS COMMR Corporations and Taxation cost curtailment CUSTOM HOUSE TOWER Department of Public departmental director division duties Education efficiency employees engineering examination executive existing EXPENDITURES TENTATIVE ORGANIZATION fees functions further GARDNER W head highways House increased inspection institutions Insurance Labor and Industries MASS DEC MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION matters Mental Diseases ments Metropolitan District Commission necessary ORGANIZATION PLAN DEPARTMENT ORNIA partments patients personnel present Department proposed Public Health Public Safety Public Utilities purchasing bureau recom registration reorganization responsibility revenue sanatoria supervision Supervisor of Administration supplies TENTATIVE ORGANIZATION PLAN tion transfer UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA URIEL CROCKER
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Page 2 - No member of said council shall receive any compensation for his services. The council and the several members thereof shall be allowed from the state treasury such expenses for clerical and other...
Page 1 - ... persons, not members of the general court, to be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council.
Page 2 - ... of Boston be constituted a joint board to investigate further a comprehensive system or systems of rapid transit in the Dorchester district of the city of Boston, with feeders from the Hyde Park district and other places, and to report its conclusions and recommendations, with drafts of such legislation as it may deem expedient, to the next annual session of the General Court not later than the tenth day of January. Various conferences and hearings have been held upon this resolve and a report...
Page 7 - On or before January first, nineteen hundred twenty-one, the executive and administrative work of the commonwealth shall be organized in not more than twenty departments, in one of which every executive and administrative office, board and commission, except those officers serving directly under the governor or the council, shall be placed. Such departments shall be under such supervision and regulation as the general court may from time to time prescribe by law.
Page 2 - Upon the filing of such report the existence of the commission shall terminate. The commission shall be furnished with rooms in the state house, and may require by summons the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers before it relating to any matter under investigation, and may administer oaths to witnesses testifying before it.
Page 7 - ... Massachusetts Highway Commission. The Board consists of the same members as last year. Mr. William D. Sohier of Beverly was reappointed by Governor Coolidge and 'qualified on March 21, 1919. By an amendment to the Constitution, which was adopted by the people, the Legislature was required to reorganize the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth into not more than twenty departments. In 1919 the Legislature, by chapter 350 of the General Acts, provided for a Department of Public...
Page 2 - Departments shall detail from time to time such officers and employees as may be requested by said commission in their investigations. Said commission or any subcommittee thereof shall have power to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths, and such process shall be issued and such oaths administered by the chairman of the commission or subcommittee, and the commission may report, by bill or otherwise, to their respective Houses of the Fifty-third Congress. All necessary expenses of said...
Page 68 - ... self-support or support by political subdivisions to a greater extent than has this State. Comparative statistics for the year 1918, taken from the latest United States census report previously referred to, show that Massachusetts spent $2.89 per capita for charities, hospitals, and corrections, which is more than any other State in the United States, and more than twice the average of all States, which is $1.28. The greatest difference lies in the care of the insane, for which Massachusetts...
Page 1 - Ihe commission shall choose its chairman, and shall be known as the Commission on State Administration and Expenditures. It shall be the duty of the commission to investigate and consider the administrative organization of the state government, the functions and duties of the several departments, and the possibility of promoting greater efficiency and economy, including: (1) whether the provisions of Article LXVI of the amendments to the constitution and of the laws for the reorganization of the...
Page 3 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representative* of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.