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Displaying 426 Finding Aids
Title
- Employee position and salary roster of state agencies
Series Number
- A0801
Summary
- A typed carbon copy list of employees of the various State agencies. Each entry includes: title of position; incumbent's name; date when entered the service of the state; and date of entrance in the specific appointment in the agency.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's Office outgoing correspondence
Series Number
- A1075
Summary
- This series contains outgoing correspondence from the Comptroller's Office to county treasurers, individuals, law firms and state agencies. Subjects include taxation or payments for services and requests for clarification on reports. Some volumes are missing.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Registers and correspondence relating to highway maintenance and repair
Series Number
- A1061
Summary
- This series consists of three registers, and correspondence from the Office of the Comptroller relating to the maintenance and repair of highways. The first register contains entries for monies expended by the State Engineer for the improvement and repair of public highways. The second and third registers are concerned with taxes levied for the maintenance and repair of highways. There is also one folder of incoming correspondence of the State Comptroller relating to the maintenance and repair of highways.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Letters, petitions, printed bills, and other documents submitted to the Governor concerning legislation
Series Number
- A1049
Summary
- The series from the Comptroller's Office consists of miscellaneous letters, petitions, printed bills, and documents submitted to the governor relating to proposed legislation. Most documents date from 1970-1974 and resemble the modern bill jacket. Similar records are found in Series A1069, Senate Bill Files.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Scrapbook relating to canal matters
Series Number
- B1820
Summary
- This series consists of documents relating to the construction and repair of the state's canal system. Included are proceedings of the Board of Canal Commissioners; correspondence between several offices and agencies responsible for canal administration; and a small amount of financial information regarding awards of the Board of Canal Appraisers, awards of the Canal Board, appropriations, and expenditures.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Register of canal boat name changes
Series Number
- A0814
Summary
- This series, arranged chronologically, records original name of boat as registered; hailing place; new name; new hailing place (often different from original); and date.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Report of indebtedness of cities and villages
Series Number
- A1048
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of a schedule of indebtedness of cities (except New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Albany, and Troy) and villages. Also included are letters transmitting the amount of debt, addressed to the Comptroller by presidents of villages.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledger of the repayment of the loan of 1792
Series Number
- A1074
Summary
- This series consists of a ledger from the office of the Comptroller continuing entries relating to the repayment of the loan of 1792. Entries are arranged by debtor and list payments of principal and interest. Accounts are listed in pounds until about 1815 when they are entered in American currency.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Receipts for payment and certificates of commutation of quit rents
Series Number
- B1612
Summary
- Quit rents were a remnant of feudal dues that were levied during both the colonial and early statehood periods. Quit rents were very unpopular and were finally abolished by the Constitution of 1846. This series consists of certificates (printed forms) that document payments and commutation of annual quit rents. Type of information provided is consistent throughout the series, including patent number; payee; patentee; lot number or other description; acreage; amount, interest, and total paid; and date of certificate.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Accounts of taxes owed to the state for road construction and marsh drainage
Series Number
- B1607
Summary
- This series consists of registers of taxes collected for projects carried out according to special legislation. These laws authorized projects to open, construct, or improve roads and to drain swamp land throughout the state. Volume 1, labeled "Road Taxes," covers authorizing laws from 1811-1830. Volume 2, labeled "Marsh and Road Tax B," covers authorizing laws from 1829-1845.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Affidavits of publication of comptroller's notices
Series Number
- A0974
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of affidavits of publication of notices. Each affidavit has a copy of the advertisement attached. Affidavits are mostly for sale of lands for arrears in taxes or quit rents, or to announce sale of state stock. Also included is an affidavit of publication of the official canvass of the general election of 1832 in the Albany Argus.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Record of certificates and affidavits of veterans of the War of 1812
Series Number
- A1303
Summary
- This volume from the Comptroller's Office lists payments of claim certificates for war services made to veterans of the War of 1812. Information includes claim number; claimant name and residence; certificate number; dollar amount of certificate; amount awarded on certificate; amount awarded under apportionment of 1870, total amount awarded; date of receipt; date paid; where or to whom payment was delivered; and occasional remarks.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledgers for state stock
Series Number
- A1465
Summary
- This series consists of two volumes, one containing accounts of principal, the other of interest, for the issue of state stock totaling $1,600,000. Each page contains names of stockholders and entries of debits and credits for principal or interest. There is a separate paperbound index to names of stockholders.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Report on taxation of state land within the Forest Preserve
Series Number
- A1471
Summary
- The series consists of a report, supporting memoranda, and statement on taxation within the Forest Preserve. The files discuss gains/loses to the state on taxes, returns of taxes, or loss of land titles through cancellation of land sales. Also included is a memorandum relative to taxes on lands of non-residents and on state-owned "wild land." and a statement of towns where state-owned lands exceeds 25% of the total acreage of each town.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's Office ledger 'K'
Series Number
- A1317
Summary
- This series consists of a general ledger, containing accounts of receipts and disbursements for virtually every state office, department, commission, institution, fund, and activity. Receipts are usually given summarily as from a general or special fund, but there is often columnar breakdown of different categories of expenditures.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Letter to Superintendent of Banking Department with memorial protesting illegal practices of savings banks in Buffalo
Series Number
- A0975
Summary
- This letter from H.E. Howard to the Superintendent of the Banking Department urges correction of abuses by savings banks in Buffalo. The Comptroller was formerly responsible for regulating banks.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Reports, correspondence and entry documentation relating to inspection of potash
Series Number
- A0961
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports of Samuel Cooper, Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes in New York City for 1828 and 1829. Both reports consist of a chronological table of ashes inspected during the year, giving for each shipment of ashes the head mark (firm name or initials), number of barrels of potash scrapings, and fee charged; a "recapitulation" is at the end.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Documents supporting orders for cancellation of tax sales
Series Number
- B0929
Summary
- This series consists of affidavits stating the grounds for cancellation of a Comptroller's tax sale. Grounds for cancellation were prior payment of taxes, erroneous tax assessment, or occupancy of the premises sold. The affidavits of occupancy include descriptions of farming or lumbering on the parcel sold. From the 1880's on the series also includes applications for cancellation of a tax sale and Comptroller's orders for cancellation.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts of debt subscription certificates
Series Number
- A1262
Summary
- This series consists of accounts detailing debt subscription certificates for a loan to the United States. The records contain information under columns headed: by whom presented; by whom subscribed; date of certificates; number of certificates; by whom issued; to whom issued; commencement of interest; amount of each certificate; depreciation; amount of principle; rate of interest; interest computed to December 31, 1791; amount of interest; total amount of principle and interest.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Registers of rejected property descriptions
Series Number
- B0849
Summary
- This series consists of registers describing non-resident property on which taxes were owed which the Comptroller's Office "rejected" because the descriptions were incomplete, inconsistent, inaccurate or for another technical reasons. The descriptions were used to produce accurate lists of lands to be advertised for sale. Reasons for rejection are stated in the margin in red ink. Descriptions may include a brief description of property; location; acreage; valuation; taxes owed or type of tax owed.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.