The following excerpt is from an article by Joshua Miller, posted in the July 29, 2014 edition of bostonglobe.com
A top [Massachusetts] state official today defended the $6.2 million the Legislature has set aside to be spent for the engineering, design and construction of a new vault in the state archives building.
Secretary of State William F. Galvin said the current vault in the archives building, under his jurisdiction, was running out of space and a new secure, climate-controlled subterranean vault was needed to house Massachusetts’ most important documents, from Paul Revere and John Adams memorabilia to colonial land records to important court documents.
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