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Law Department correspondence
Series
Identifier: 0700.006
Scope and Contents note
One of the functions of the Law Department is to provide formal and informal opinions to the Mayor, the City Council, the Boston School Committee, and City or County Officials and other employees in matters relating to the discharge of their official duties. This collection documents the communications between various city officials and employees and the Law Department regarding these requests. The collection is divided into two series based on the format of the records. The first series...
Dates:
1884-1982 with gaps
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Law Department records
Series
Identifier: 0700.007
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes files kept by the City's Law Department on various issues, cases, questions that came before the department during the 20th century. Significant issues, etc. represented in this collection include the Cocoanut Grove Fire, West End Redevelopment, World War, City Real estate holdings, gifts to the city, bridge construction, City Hospital, City Hall construction and many others. The first series includes a numbered reference file that was kept by the Law Department...
Dates:
1908-1997; Majority of material found within Bulk, 1915-1970
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Legal Opinions of the Corporation Counsel
Series
Identifier: 0700.001
Scope and Contents note
One of the duties of the Corporation Counsel is to provide opinions on the law of any subject or question that may be submitted to him by the Mayor or the City Council and on any subject or question relating to the discharge of their or his duties that may be submitted to him by the School Committee, by any Committee of the City Council, or by four members of the City Council, or by any Officer in charge of a Department of the City government. This series includes the official opinions of...
Dates:
1895-1969 with gaps
Found in:
City of Boston Archives
Transcripts of Special Acts relating to the City of Boston
Series
Identifier: 0700.009
Dates:
1692-1936
Found in:
City of Boston Archives