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Displaying 426 Finding Aids
Title
- Statement of lands sold for taxes
Series Number
- B0954
Summary
- This series consists of a published list of lands sold by the Comptroller for unpaid taxes. Each entry gives the sale certificate number; a brief description of the parcel sold; the acres sold; the name of the purchaser; the amount of the bid; and to whom the parcel was conveyed.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- County treasurers' statements of non-resident lands sold for unpaid taxes
Series Number
- B0940
Summary
- This series contains statements that list lands of non-residents sold by county treasurers for unpaid taxes. Each statement gives the lot number; description of the parcel sold; acreage; name of the purchaser; number of acres sold; and amount received by the county treasurer.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Bills for state printing
Series Number
- A1223
Summary
- This series consists of bills compiled by the State Printer's Office for the printing and binding of New York State government publications. Included are a list of the acts, messages, reports and other government publications printed, cost to the State, and date of the bill. Also included are State agency reports and audits of bills questioning a particular charge.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Assorted early records relating to taxes and accounts
Series Number
- B1451
Summary
- This series consists of an assortment of unrelated documents. Many documents date from the establishment of the Office of the Comptroller. Several documents may relate to the comptroller's duties to sell land for payment of delinquent state taxes. Included are certificates of payment to the Treasurer's Office; property inventory and other information on tax sales and quit rents; and a note relating to payment for an elector for president and vice president of the U.S.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Account book of salary payments to government officials and employees
Series Number
- A0840
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of a Cash Book recording salary payments by State Comptroller to the Governor, Chancellor, and other officials and employees of the state.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Index to Comptroller's tax sale records
Series Number
- B0983
Summary
- This series consists of indexes to unidentified comptroller's tax sale records. Information includes tract names and (apparently) purchaser names, with page numbers next to each name. Also included is an alphabetical index to tract name (with lots on parcels entered under each tract). The reference for each entry is to an "old" number, a "new" number, or a "case" number. Several additional volumes include lists of personal or tract names, accompanied by unexplained numeric references.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Assorted records
Series Number
- B0944
Summary
- This series consists of unprocessed records, apparently from the Comptroller's Office. Records include: applications to revoke redemptions; letters and telegrams from appraisers; assessment rolls and lists of construction expenditures; documents on rejection of taxes in 1908 returned from towns; miscellaneous reports and papers; responses to circular letters sent to town clerks; documents pertaining to the tax sales and applications for issuance of deeds.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Tax assessment rolls of real and personal estates
Series Number
- B0950
Summary
- Legislation enacted in 1799 (amended in 1801) established a system of assessing and taxing real and personal property and required tax commissioners or (beginning in 1801) county supervisors to submit to the State Comptroller a copy of the county's tax rolls and a list of unpaid taxes. This series consists of town and city tax assessment rolls (excluding New York City) prepared by county treasurers and filed with the State Comptroller's Office.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- Originals are in fragile condition. Microfilm is first use copy.
Title
- Entry documentation pertaining to the new emission of bills of credit
Series Number
- A1233
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of receipts, currency exchange ledgers, accounts of bills of credit, and cancelled lists of bundles of Continental money regarding the emission of currency by New York State. The receipts detail the cost of new printing plates, advertising costs, and cost of paper to print the new bills on. Also included is information on the amount of new emissions exchange for older notes and lists of bundles of old Continental notes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Statement of bank failures
Series Number
- A1390
Summary
- This series consist of tables that list banks that failed between 1845 and 1876, giving year of failure, name of bank, and (presumably) amount owed to the state. The origin and purpose of the tables are unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Correspondence relating to the publication of notices of lands sold for taxes and unredeemed
Series Number
- A1384
Summary
- This series consists of routine correspondence of the Comptroller's office with newspapers published in Forest Preserve counties, relating to publication of notices of lands sold for taxes and unredeemed.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Auburn Prison accounts and vouchers of agent and warden
Series Number
- A1151
Summary
- This series consists of vouchers and accounts submitted by the Auburn Prison agent to the Comptroller's Office. Each voucher lists date services or materials were provided, amount owed, name of payee, a receipt and the payee's affidavit that the amount is correct. Attached to the vouchers are original bills or invoices. Abstracts for each month list and total the enclosed vouchers.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Vouchers for expenditures on account of canal fund
Series Number
- A1145
Summary
- Vouchers for Canal expenditures submitted for audit by canal officials to the Comptroller, Chief Clerk or Auditor of the Canal Department by Canal officials. The vouchers include name of payee, nature of expenditure, and amount of payment. Attached to vouchers are bills, invoices, orders to pay, and letters. Vouchers for refunds of overpaid tolls are also included.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Minutes and working papers of the board to supervise the repairs upon the State Hall
Series Number
- A1169
Summary
- This series contains Board meeting minutes; correspondence of the Office of the Capitol Commissioner concerning the repairs; specifications for the renovation (including remarks on existing condition of building); lists of vouchers, bills for building supplies; and plans and specifications for elevators.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Vouchers for expenses submitted by Board of Barber Examiners
Series Number
- A1155
Summary
- This series contains vouchers for travel and other expenses incurred by members of the Board of Barber Examiners and submitted to the Comptroller's Office. Also included are receipts and cancelled checks.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- County treasurers' returns of unpaid taxes on non-resident lands
Series Number
- B0941
Summary
- This series consists of returns listing parcels owned by non-residents who had not paid their taxes. Their property was subsequently sold in the tax sales. Each entry on a list states the parcel location, lot number, acreage, assessed value, and amount of tax due. Each list includes the town tax collector's affidavit that the taxes remain unpaid.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Bear bounty affidavits
Series Number
- A1222
Summary
- This series consists of signed affidavits forwarded to the State Comptroller from Greene County officials certifying that the person named killed a bear(s) and is entitled to a ten-dollar bounty. The records contain the name of the Town Supervisor, Justice of the Peace, name of the Town and County, name of person collecting bounty, residence, location where bear was killed, date, amount of bounty, date of affidavit, date when bounty was paid, and the signature of the County Treasurer.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Warrants issued
Series Number
- A1236
Summary
- This series consists of warrants issued by the Comptroller's Office for the payment of mandated State expenses. Later warrants request loans to equip and provide for the State Militia.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Register of decedent estates paying transfer taxes
Series Number
- B0955
Summary
- This series consists of a register of decedent estates paying transfer taxes. Information includes decedent's name; decedent's date of death; name of executor or administrator and his past office address; value of the estate; tax rate (an unexplained letter code); and date of estate appraiser's report.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- List of shareholders in the Hudson River Railroad Company
Series Number
- A0896
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office lists persons who subscribed to stock in the Hudson River Railroad Company. The list includes the town; name of subscriber; and number of shares. An appendix listing names, number of shares, and total amount subscribed, is also included. At the end of the volume are signatures of officers and directors of the company.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.