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Title

Register of bids and payments for land sold for unpaid taxes

Series Number

B0845

Summary

This series documents money received for sale of land for unpaid taxes. Information includes names of successful bidders and the amounts bid for each parcel, by county. Totaled at the bottom of the column is the amount bid, the amount paid and date of payment. Starting with the 1859 tax sale the entries also state the date when the purchaser received the certificate of payment.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

New York State Department of Audit and Control correspondence, speech, and report files

Series Number

B1372

Summary

This series consists of records compiled by the office of New York State Comptroller Arthur Levitt. Records include personal and official correspondence, schedules of Levitt's activities, committee files, subject files, speeches, published opinions of the state attorney general, published annual financial reports of the state comptroller, and special reports of the state comptroller.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Comptroller's subject files

Series Number

18264

Summary

This series contains correspondence, memorandums, newspaper clippings, published and unpublished reports, draft legislation, notices of appointments to boards and commissions, and published articles. These records document issues with which the State Comptroller dealt such as bond issuances, the state's bond rating, campaign finance reform, casino gambling, health insurance and health costs, the Savings and Loan scandal, financing of the Knickerbocker Arena, state pension funds, and agency audits.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Audited accounts of the comptroller

Series Number

A1475

Summary

The series consists of accounts audited by the state comptroller for monies due to the state treasury or owed to individuals or agencies by the state. Each entry includes name, date, brief description with amount due, and account balance. An index appears at the end of the volume.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Audited accounts of payments made by overseers of the poor for support of children born to slaves

Series Number

A0827

Summary

Abandoned children of slaves were to be supported at the state's expense by the local overseers of the poor. This series contains accounts of expenses of overseers of the poor for the maintenance of children of slaves. The accounts include the name of the town and county; names of overseers of the poor; name of master; name and birth date of child; time period for which child was maintained; amount spent and date.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

Original documents are fragile. Digital images are first use copies.

Title

Management Confidential benefits programs files

Series Number

16320

Summary

The series consists of copies of financial information; RFP (Request for Proposal) agreements; correspondence, brochures and other descriptive information; meeting minutes; and marketing and implementation plans for Management Confidential drug, vision, hearing, life, IPP, and other programs not funded through negotiated agreements. The records document decisions and actions of the Governor's Office of Employee Relations (GOER) as participant in the Health Insurance Council, which has policy oversight in such areas.

Creator

• New York (State). Governor's Office of Employee Relations. Employee Benefits Management Division

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

New York State Auditor General fragments from the Auditor General's memorandum book

Series Number

A0173

Summary

This series consists of surviving fragments of the Auditor General's memorandum book, dated approximately 1780. These records are restricted due to severe burn damage.

Creator

• New York (State). Auditor General

Access Restrictions

Restricted due to severe burn damage. Use only under supervison of archivist.

Title

Documents relating to cancellations and redemptions of tax sales

Series Number

B0933

Summary

This series includes denied applications for cancellation of tax sales; comptroller's orders setting aside cancellations; motions and stipulations to set aside cancellations; and denied applications to redeem lands from tax sales. Also included are a few notices to occupants to vacate lands and legal documentation related to an application for cancellation of a tax sale of 760 acres in the Old Military Tract, Townships #1 and # 2 of Essex County.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Subscriptions and redemption statements of canal stock, and lists of bank contracts for canal deposits

Series Number

A1094

Summary

This series consists of three pages listing contracts with banks allowing an interest on deposit of Canal monies at sixty days for 4.5 or 5% interest. Each entry provides the date of the contract; contract number; the name of the bank; and rate of interest.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Registers of unpaid taxes on non-resident lands

Series Number

B0848

Summary

Volumes in this series contain detailed information regarding unpaid taxes on non-resident lands: town, lot number, description, assessed value, amount of unpaid tax, date of sale, person making payment, and amount paid. Abstracted information, apparently used to prepare lists of lands available for tax sales, is also included: years of unpaid taxes; owner; description and location of property; acreage or lot size; and amount owed for each year.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Executive Director's financial records

Series Number

B2584

Summary

This series contains information about the day-to-day operation and finances of the Berkshire Farm Center. Included are copies of published budgets, annual financial statements, and audits. The audits specifically cover the operation of the Berkshire Farm for Boys, the Union Free School District, and the Berkshire Farm Institute for Training and Research.

Creator

• Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Journal of payments by the Department of Taxation and Finance

Series Number

B1950

Summary

This volume appears to be a journal of payments by the Department of Taxation and Finance, audited and approved by the Department of Audit and Control (State Comptroller's Office). Purposes of the payments include state payroll, unemployment insurance, state employees retirement system, and general checking account.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Annual financial reports of towns

Series Number

13326

Summary

The General Municipal Law requires that the chief financial officer of every municipality report its financial condition annually to the state comptroller. Each report in this series contains a statement of financial transactions of the town, broken down according to type of fund (general, library, highway, water, sewer, etc.).

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control. Bureau of Municipal Research and Statistics

Title

Reports of audits by mortgage tax examiners

Series Number

B1603

Summary

The series consists primarily of copies of original reports to the State Tax Commission, produced by mortgage tax examiners, recommending rebates of the mortgage tax or other actions arising from their audits of county mortgage tax records. The examinations pertain to collection of the mortgage tax (taxable instruments); apportionment and distribution of the tax; recording and checking the tax; and accounting for and auditing the tax.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Taxation and Finance. Mortgage and Land Tax Section

Access Restrictions

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

List of patentees referenced in "Revolutionary Manuscripts"

Series Number

A1476

Summary

This series consists of a duplicate index to patentees for lands located on bounty rights issued during the Revolutionary War. The list gives names of patentees in alphabetical order, with page references to their respective locations in volumes 27, 28, and 29 of "Revolutionary Manuscripts."

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this 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

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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.

Title

War of 1812 veterans' certificates of claim awards and related records

Series Number

A0020

Summary

This series consists mostly of affidavits documenting a claimant's right to reimbursement from War of 1812 service in a New York militia or volunteer unit, as well as certificates issued to claimants after the Adjutant General's Office reviewed and adjusted their claims. The bulk of the series documents in-state claimants.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Statement by State Comptroller on bond purchases for sinking funds

Series Number

A1470

Summary

The series consists of a statement and supporting documentation by Eugene M. Travis, State Comptroller, in response to charges printed in the Brooklyn Times newspaper that he wasted public funds on eleven purchases of bonds for various state sinking funds. They were apparently used by Travis in his presentation to a committee investigating the charges.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.