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Displaying 426 Finding Aids
Title
- New York State Comptroller's Office tax sale notices to occupants of lands sold
Series Number
- B0945
Summary
- This series consists of tax sale notices to occupants of lands sold and summary information derived from tax sale notices. Notices record name of occupant, date of tax sale, location of premises sold, purchase price, and date of conveyance. Bound volumes in accretion B0945-99 provide summary information taken from the original notices found in accretions B0945-85 and B0945-99A.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register of court cases relating to trust funds
Series Number
- A1344
Summary
- This series documents money received through Court action. Information includes title of action or proceeding; court in which proceeding took place (Surrogate or Supreme); date received; and amount received. There is an index in the front, which arranges the information alphabetically by county. This information was apparently collected by the Comptroller in conjunction with his duty of overseeing the finances of the state.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Forms and instructions in relation to accounts of collectors of tolls
Series Number
- A1436
Summary
- This volume contains sample forms and instructions for use by collectors of tolls on the canal system and cites relevant statutes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Case file of securities deposited in the Comptroller's Office
Series Number
- A1350
Summary
- This series consists of bound standard forms, identified as securities deposited in the State Comptroller's Office. Information includes the name of the person whose estate is being settled; a list of securities received (par value, description, denomination due, coupons due); the date of withdrawal; and witnessing by the Deputy Commissioner.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Specifications of an index for searching records or books
Series Number
- A1185
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office contains an early example of "forms management". It contains an outline of an improved method of indexing books of judgments, deeds, mortgages, etc., devised by William Stebbins, and files by him in the U.S. Patent Office preparatory to taking out a patent.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Correspondence and maps relating to tax searches and correction of property descriptions
Series Number
- B2528
Summary
- The State Comptroller's Office compiled these records in the process of performing tax searches on parcels of private land proposed for purchase as additions to the Adirondack Forest Preserve. A smaller quantity of records of these same types were submitted to the comptroller's office by supervisors of local tax districts for the purpose of correcting "imperfect" property descriptions.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Index book to mortgages, land sales, and bank accounts of loan commissioners
Series Number
- A1451
Summary
- The volume (labeled variously as "Loan Commissioner Book" and "Index Book Y") combines an index to names of mortgagees (referenced to pages in an unspecified ledger) with lists of sale of state lands in accordance with Chapter 413 of the Laws of 1897, as amended in 1898, and bank accounts held by unidentified loan commissioners. Neither the purpose nor the author of the entries is known.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Proof of publication of list of wild, vacant and forest lands owned by the state
Series Number
- B1263
Summary
- This series contains information about vacant land owned by the State of New York in Clinton County. The records were compiled pursuant to Chapter 711 of the Laws of 1893, which allowed the Comptroller to advertise a list of the wild, vacant, and forest lands for which the State held title. The Comptroller's notice as to ownership lists towns, lot numbers, a brief description of the land, and the number of acres.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Outgoing correspondence replying to inquiries about records of soldiers of the Revolutionary War
Series Number
- A1363
Summary
- This series contains letterpress copies of replies sent by the comptroller's office in response to inquiries regarding Revolutionary War soldiers. The letters provide information derived from records that were ultimately transferred to the State Archives.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this series.
Title
- Statements and receipts for interest due to holders of New York State stock issued to aid the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad Company
Series Number
- A1405
Summary
- This series contains semi-annual statements of interest due to holders of state stock issued to aid construction of the Hudson & Berkshire Railroad. Each entry gives the amount of stock, stockholders' names, amount of interest, date paid, and signature of the stockholder or attorney.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Annual statistical reports of cargoes cleared at various canal ports
Series Number
- A1175
Summary
- These tables submitted by canal toll collectors provided quantity (feet, pounds, barrels, etc.) of freight passing up or down the canal. Commodities included: lumber, timber, shingles, lime, beer, oats, wool, iron, brick, cheese, butter, flour, ashes, wheat, salt, and "sundries." Reports are fragmentary but cover Albany, Troy, Whitehall, Utica, and Rochester for 1830, and for 1832 for West Troy, Utica, Rochester, and Buffalo.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Estimates of blank forms required by Superintendents of Repai
Series Number
- A1161
Summary
- Estimates of blanks forms required for sixteen or seventeen month periods were submitted to the Chief Clerk or Auditor of the Canal Department. They list the number of forms on hand and the number required, in various categories. The series is an interesting early example of "forms management" and provides names and locations of superintendents of repair.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- New York State Prison financial records
Series Number
- A1149
Summary
- This series consists of abstracts and vouchers submitted to the State Comptroller for audit by the agent of Newgate Prison. Also included are balance sheets; pay rolls; inventories of property; lists of materials purchased; accounts of work done in prison factory, for prison construction, and for sheriffs for delivering prisoners; and "final accounts" on closing of the prison in 1828.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Assorted records
Series Number
- A0525
Summary
- The series is an unrelated records created or received by the Comptroller's office. Included are school warrants, oaths of office, town meeting minutes; executive clemency applications; statements of votes for presidential and vice presidential electors by county boards of canvassers; indexes of conveyances in the Office of Register of the City and County of New York ; correspondence regarding payment of state franchise tax; estimates for prison repairs requiring special fund appropriations and state hospital inventories.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Appropriations cash book
Series Number
- B0975
Summary
- This series appears to consist of cash paid pursuant to Legislative appropriations. State expenditures include arsenals, asylums, bridges, clerical salaries, courts, fuel, normal schools, the natural history survey, governor's expenses and salary, prisons, Legislative expenses, military statistics, the new Capitol, printing, etc. Entries give date, name of payee, authorizing law, amount, and balance in each account.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Tax assessors' atlases
Series Number
- B0961
Summary
- This series contains tax assessors atlases of counties, boroughs, cities, and towns. The bulk of the records are assessors atlases of counties and towns in Kings and Richmond counties. They were apparently prepared to determine land ownership for the purpose of tax assessment. Also included are 38 published atlases of counties, boroughs, cities, and towns, most of which were annotated with lot numbers and names of owners, for the purpose of tax assessment.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Entry documentation relating to escheats
Series Number
- A0849
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence, rent receipts, and repair, improvement, and maintenance bills relating to the rental of escheated property. When the title to property failed from defect or lack of heirs, the land then reverted, or escheated, to the people of the state. The state then appointed temporary administrators, often local judges, to supervise the rental and maintenance of the property until possible heirs could be identified, or other disposition of the land.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Draft of index to first volume of "Laws of New York 1777-1786,
Series Number
- A0875
Summary
- This series is an alphabetical index to names and subjects in the Laws of New York from 1777 to 1786. The first page indicates that the index is to Loudon's Edition. This probably refers to an edition of the laws printed by Samuel and James Loudon's publishing firm.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- U.S. Deposit Fund reports and lists
Series Number
- B1063
Summary
- This series consists of documents relating to the Comptroller's administration of U.S. Deposit Fund. Included are: summary report of transactions of county loan commissioners; report of lands rented by county loan commissioners; register of lands acquired throughout foreclosure of U.S. Deposit Fund mortgages; lists of mortgages in force; index to mortgagors; requests for reduction in principal of mortgages; lists of active and closed mortgages; mortgage schedules; miscellaneous letters; court papers; lists and reports relating to mortgages.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Highway money system reports by county boards
Series Number
- A1375
Summary
- This series consists of reports of tax levied for the repair of highways by the Board of Supervisors for the respective counties. Information includes town name; assessed valuation and equalized valuation of real estate in the town; assessed valuation of real estate exclusive of all incorporated villages; assessed valuation of personal property exclusive of all incorporated villages that maintain their highways as separate road districts; highway tax; extraordinary repairs; and total tax.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.