New York State Banking Department Financial Records

Arranged roughly by subject.

The series includes a wide variety of records relating to bank administration, operations, and accounting. The records document the state's activist supervision of banks under the Safety Fund Act, passed in the aftermath of the Panic of 1837. Included are disciplinary letters; files on sealing and burning of notes; diaries of financial transactions; fund ledgers, daybooks, and blotters; certificates of securities; register's receipts of impressions; powers of attorney; transfer books; savings bank expense books; certificates of association of banks of deposit and discount; records of certificates of organization and authorization of private banks, bankers, brokers, and credit unions; journals; registers of receipt and disposal of notes; ledgers of notes in circulation; security registers; journals of bank notes, stocks, and bonds; and ledgers for general and miscellaneous accounts.

This series was transferred under records disposition numbers 10511 and 3898.

This series is an amalgamation of records separately accessioned in 1980 as Archives series B1115-B1180 and B1192-B1195. The 70 individual series were withdrawn and combined as series A0700 when volumes were reboxed by Archives staff in January 2000.

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