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Displaying 426 Finding Aids
Title
- Accounts and receipts of Commission for Settling Claims for Land Ceded to Vermont
Series Number
- A0807
Summary
- This series consists of accounts and receipts for services rendered or for money paid out by the Commissioners for Settling Claims for Land Ceded to Vermont for office supplies and newspaper advertisements addressed to potential claimants. The Commission was responsible for settling claims of persons who had received land grants from New York in what is now Vermont.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- List of taxes paid to road districts
Series Number
- A1339
Summary
- Tax money was collected for highways and later redistributed through the Comptroller's Office. This series records tax money distributed to different road districts by the Comptroller. It also indicates the laws by which various road districts were created, as well as the laws affecting the district.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Stock certificate receipt book
Series Number
- A1311
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office contains receipt books for stock by the state, and for funding of various loans. Each entry gives number of the stock certificate; species of stock ("Million Loan," other canal loans, and miscellaneous loans to the state); amount of stock; and signature acknowledging receipt of stock certificate.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Payroll ledgers of the State Legislature
Series Number
- A1305
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of accounts of pay to members of the Assembly and Senate. Each account gives legislator's name and county of residence, warrant number and amount on debit side and days of attendance and mileage on credit side. Also included are ledgers providing the names, titles, pay rates, mileage reimbursement, and disbursement dates for members of the State Assembly and Senate and their staffs.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Journal of surveyor general's accounts
Series Number
- A1463
Summary
- This series contains accounts of the State of New York with Simeon De Witt, Surveyor General. Debits are on the left hand folio and credits on the right. Most of the expenses recorded are for surveys of tracts of unappropriated lands and for newspaper advertisements of land sales.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Wolf bounty affidavits
Series Number
- B1775
Summary
- This series consists of affidavits signed by town supervisors and justices of the peace certifying that the person named killed a wolf or wolves and is entitled to a ten-dollar bounty. Records contain the name of the Town Supervisor, Justice of the Peace, name of the Town and County, name of person collecting 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
- County treasurers' correspondence and notices of lands to be sold for unpaid taxes
Series Number
- B1990
Summary
- This series consists largely of correspondence from county treasurers in the form of published notices clipped from local newspapers about upcoming sales of lands for unpaid taxes. Also included is correspondence notifying the comptroller of pending sales of land mortgaged to the Loan Commissioners. Other rare topics include cancellation of taxes and withdrawal of certain land from sales.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledger of duties paid by auctioneers
Series Number
- A1304
Summary
- This series consists of accounts of the State Comptroller with auctioneers for payment of duty and tax. Each account gives name of auctioneer and county of residence, duty and tax due entered on debit side, and payments on credit side.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Fragments of unidentified account books
Series Number
- A1462
Summary
- This series consists of fragmentary, unidentified books. Parts of at least six distinguishable accounts are present. Listings appear to represent amounts attributed for loan/warrants; apportionment of state school funds; canal revenues/loans; and land assessments.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Stock transfer book
Series Number
- A1310
Summary
- This series consists of volumes of stock transfer books kept by the Comptroller's office, recording transfer state stock (including canal stock) from one individual or firm to another. Each entry lists: number and value of stock certificate; number of transfer; date; names and addresses of assignor and assignee; species of stock; and signature of assignor and witness.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts for enlargement and improvement of the Erie Canal
Series Number
- A1265
Summary
- This volume contains accounts for work and materials furnished on contract and for repairs. Information includes: location of contract (lock or section), name of contractor, and type of work or material furnished with quantity and value. At the end of the volume are regulations, resolutions and copies of reports and accounts related to enlargement of the canal submitted by the chief engineer, first division. An alphabetical index to contractors is located at front of the volume.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Daily journal
Series Number
- A0966
Summary
- This journal from the office of the Comptroller lists various financial transactions made from May 1, 1797 to October 27, 1802. The comptroller was responsible for drawing up warrants for all monies to be paid by the Treasurer, keeping the financial records of the state, investing the state's funds, and borrowing money on the credit 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
- Index to claims for the war account
Series Number
- A0806
Summary
- This series consists of an index to claims submitted for the organization, equipment and maintenance of New York State troops. An auditing board, consisting of the Inspector General, Advocate General, and the Quartermaster General was established by law to review these claims. The index contains information on name and book in which claim information appears. The whereabouts of book indexed by this volume is unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Treasurer's certificates of money paid into the treasury
Series Number
- A1259
Summary
- This series contains certificates issued by the Treasurer's Office stating that a certain individual paid a specific sum of money into the State Treasury. The records contain the name of the individual; the amount of money paid into the Treasury; what the money was paid for; the date; and the signature of the Treasurer.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Registers of cancelled tax-sales
Series Number
- B1615
Summary
- This series provides summary information on cancellation of tax sales held to sell lands for unpaid taxes. While tax-sales for as early as 1800 are referred to, and a few cancellations are included for as late as 1946, the cancellations generally date from 1818-circa 1930. Usual causes for cancellation include errors in tax assessment, mistakes in payment records before the tax-sale, and redemption payments made after the tax-sale was completed.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Affidavits of occupancy of lands to be sold by the state
Series Number
- A1067
Summary
- This fragmentary series includes legal documentation (of which affidavits of occupancy form the bulk) relating to state sale of land, presumably for unpaid taxes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- County treasurers' statements of conveyance and redemptions of non-resident land sold for unpaid taxes
Series Number
- B0938
Summary
- This series consists of lists of non-resident lands sold for unpaid taxes and subsequently conveyed or redeemed. Each list gives the lot number; description of the parcel sold; acre sold; date of conveyance or redemption; to whom the parcel was conveyed or by whom it was redeemed; and amount paid if redeemed.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's ledger of accounts with county agricultural societies
Series Number
- A1298
Summary
- State appropriations for county agricultural societies were authorized by L. 1841, Ch. 169; L. 1845, Ch. 169; L. 1845, Ch. 60; and L. 1848, Ch. 299. This series contains ledgers of accounts kept by the Comptroller's office for state aid to agricultural societies; and reports submitted to the Comptroller by treasurers of county agricultural societies.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register of incorporated companies
Series Number
- A1289
Summary
- This series contains a listing of incorporated gas, insurance and railroad companies and banks (both state and national). Entries include the name of the corporation, chief officer(s)' name, place where to direct communications amount of authorized capital stock; and , for some gas companies the amount actually paid in. Only the entries for insurance and railroad companies are filled in completely.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
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- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Insurance company bonds and reports of agents
Series Number
- A0829
Summary
- Agents of Fire Insurance Companies were to make annual reports of all premiums received, pay 10% of these to the state treasury, and were required to deliver on demand to the comptroller a bond declaring intent to do so or pay a $1,000 penalty. This series, which documents this requirement, contains premium reports and bonds of agents. Also included are lists of stockholders and annual financial reports of various companies.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.