New York State Department of State Orders for Publication of Statutes and Notices in Newspapers

Chronological.

The series consists of publication orders and related material sent to newspapers by the Secretary of State to request public printing of documents filed with the department. Orders are pasted in scrapbook style onto lined pages in two bound volumes.

The records include lists of newspapers designated to publish notices, and to publish proposals for public printing payable by the state other than legislative printing (or for legislative binding); transmittal correspondence from the Secretary of State to newspaper publishers requesting publication (typically stating the length of time the notices are to run in the newspaper, and requesting a receipted bill with an affidavit of publication); a manuscript log of mailings; and some printed copies of the published notices. The typescript letters often have the subject or type of the document to be published noted at the margin in manuscript.

Types of documents represented in the orders include session laws, and vetoed senate and assembly bills; concurrent resolutions; notices of court assignments for justices and Appellate Division term dates; orders amending rules of county clerks and the Supreme Court; certificates of filing of commissions and oaths of office; notices of civil service transfers or position appointments; and notices of special elections and certifications of voting returns.

Volume list.

The records were received by the State Library from the Office of the Secretary of State on February 5, 1946. They were found among other records and inventoried by State Library staff in April, 1951.

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