New York State Governor Annual Reports to the Governor and Legislature

This series contains reports from a wide variety of state agencies, offices, commissions, schools, hospitals, and other institutions as well as private organizations required to submit such reports to the governor. From annotations written on some reports (e.g. "has been sent to legislature"; "need not be transmitted"), some items of correspondence found in the series, and the fact that some reports are addressed to the legislature, it appears that these are the governor's copies of reports that were intended to be seen by both the governor and the legislature.

The haphazard manner of filing of these reports indicates that the governor's office made no serious attempt to organize and utilize these reports. It is possible that these materials were removed from other series for reference by the governor's office and were never refiled.

A0580-97: This accretion consists of reports of "sundry commissions" not transmitted to the legislature. Institutions represented include Office of the Board of Commissioners of Pilots; New York State Reformatory at Elmira; New York State School of Clay-working and Ceramics at Alfred University; Society for The Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New York; State Printing Board; Board of Embalming Examiners; Probation Commission; Board of Pharmacy; State Prison Improvement Commission; State Superintendent of Elections for the Metropolitan Elections District and the State Water Supply Commission.

Of special note is a fragment of an unidentified alphabetical index which may pertain to agencies or subjects for which reports were filed with the governor or legislature. Entries are present for letters H, I, K, and W. The fragment is undated and unattributed.

A0580-97: This accretion resulted from a project undertaken by Archives staff in 1997 to accession or reintegrate estrayed or unidentified records.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.