New York State Conservation Department Card Index to Administrative Matters and Regulatory and Special Permit Cases

Alphabetical by last name of applicant.

The series is a card file indexing matters of general administration (e.g., personnel appointments), regulatory violations (e.g., "fire cases"), and special permit actions (e.g., "take beaver and dams") handled from September 1, 1930 through December 31, 1937. Cards typically show the name and place of residence of the applicant or person cited for an infraction, a date, a brief description of the action, and a page number. Cards for personnel appointments often show salary information and date of hiring or retirement. The volumes to which the page numbers refer are unknown but references are in the 6,000-7,000 numerical range. There are categories of cards for "General"; "Fish and Game"; "Forestry"' and "Division of Parks" but the overwhelming bulk of cards are straight alphabetical name references.

Included are references to staff hiring as forest rangers, land surveyors, title examiners, clerks, caretakers, laborers, "special protectors", and guides. Typical cases include settling incidents of trespass, campsite violations, and scheduling "additional protection hearings" for varieties of fish and game. There are also requests to hold dog trials, to hunt or fish specific varieties of game, or to access roads. Many cases involve permission to "take" squirrel, deer, or beaver (apparently because of a nuisance situation) or to "take" wood, stone, or other naturally occuring resources from state property.

Container list is available at the repository.

This accretion resulted from a project by Archives staff in 1998 to integrate or accession estrayed or unidentified records.

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