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Title

Index to laws and court decisions affecting the state comptroller

Series Number

A1461

Summary

The series consists of an informal, handwritten subject index to laws pertaining to responsibilities of the state comptroller. Laws dating from 1784 to 1915 are referenced. The creation date is unknown, but entries are by several hands, perhaps added over time, and represent a working copy. Subjects are wide-ranging and in keeping with this historically important office. Quite often there is a precis of the legislation with its citation.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Unidentified indexes

Series Number

A1467

Summary

This series consists of at least six distinct indexes; most are partial or fragmentary. They reference names of banks, companies, or individuals to (account?) books or other unidentified records.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Name index to executive pardons, respites, commutations, restorations of citizenship and certificates of good conduct

Series Number

B1201

Summary

This series serves as a name index to executive pardons, respites, commutations, restorations of citizenship, and certificates of good conduct in series 13253. It likely indexes other record series created by the Department of State that document executive clemency actions, as well. Information includes name, type of clemency granted, date clemency granted, and file number. Crime, date of conviction and county where convicted are sometimes included.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State. Bureau of Miscellaneous Records

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Registers and index to incoming correspondence

Series Number

A3310

Summary

This series consists of two daily registers of correspondence received by the State Board of Health and one volume that serves as a partial name index to the registers. Registers list name, title (of medical professionals), and place of residence or location of business of persons from whom correspondence was received each day. Registers list the same categories of information regarding letters that were filed on a given day. Occasional notes appear in the margins indicating number of notices sent to druggists, presidents of villages, supervisors of towns, or local boards of health on a given day.

Creator

• New York (State). Board of Health

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Index to unidentified canal accounts, and papers for an "Albany Lottery"

Series Number

A3256

Summary

This series consists of an index, with a few personal names, to unidentified canal accounts. Included in the volume is a letter requesting attendance at the comptroller's office for an audit of the treasurer's accounts. Additional documents refer to the potential offering of an "Albany City Lottery" and include a list of prize money.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Index of post-1800 enrolled decrees

Series Number

J0088

Summary

This series is an outdated partial index to Enrolled Chancery Decrees After 1800. It was superseded by J0064, Index of Enrolled Decrees After 1800. File numbers, therefore, no longer refer to actual enrolled decrees since new file numbers were assigned in the subsequent index. Entries include complainant, defendant, solicitor and decree file date. Entries before 1830 also include the object of the suit and the nature of the decree; this information is not included in J0064, Index of Enrolled Decrees.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Index maps and aerial photo indices

Series Number

B2314

Summary

This series consists of map and photographic print indexes created or collected by the Department of Transportation and its predecessor agencies. Although many of the projects associated with this series are identified, none of the records indexed by the series are held by the New York State Archives. Record types chiefly consist of aerial photographs and annotated maps showing flight paths and numbers identifying photographs taken at each point in the flight.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Index to Barge Canal aerial photographs

Series Number

B2315

Summary

This series indexes the aerial photographs depicting the Barge Canal System (series 22424), and was created to provide a current inventory of canal property.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Unidentified indexes to institution records

Series Number

A3137

Summary

These indexes provide no indication of, or insufficient information to determine, which records they index. None of the volumes index any existing institution records. Each index includes inmate name; and page number(s). Records are restricted.

Creator

• New York (State). State Industrial School

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).

Title

Location index to card index drawers for patents and deeds

Series Number

A4698

Summary

Location descriptors in Series A4686, Location Index to Colonial Patents; A4687, Location Index to State Patents; and A4690, Location Index to Deeds and Other Miscellaneous Documents Recorded or Filed by the Secretary of State and Office of General Services, are indexed by this series.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Science and State Museum

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication of inter-library loan.

Title

Subject card indexes to instructional photographic images

Series Number

A3132

Summary

These 18,000 cards consist of two subseries, each indexing one subseries of Series A3045, Instructional Lantern Slides: 1) Catalog of images for use in educational slide sets, arranged by alpha-numeric catalog number, and 2) Subject index to unclassified images, in three alphabetically arranged sections: general (subject or country), major countries or continents, and U.S. states.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Visual Instruction

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Indexes of property owners in Sacandaga Reservoir area and map accession numbers

Series Number

B2786

Summary

This series consists of one microfilm roll containing several indexes relating to the files of the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District (HRBRRD). The first section indexes the tracts of land acquired by HRBRRD prior to the creation of the Sacandaga Reservoir (today called the Great Sacandaga Lake). The second section indexes various maps created for the use of HRBRRD staff.

Creator

• Hudson River-Black River Regulating District (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Sing Sing Prison list of foreign born incarcerated individuals

Series Number

B0146

Summary

The Statistical Department of Sing Sing Prison compiled a country-by-country list of foreign-born incarcerated individuals containing the following information: consecutive number; age; date of admittance; country; crime; sentence; and disposition. This appears to have been created by the prison administration for their own reference use.

Creator

• Sing Sing Prison

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Assembly Public Information Office transcripts of Assembly debates

Series Number

L0016

Summary

This series consists of verbatim transcripts of debates in the Assembly during the 1974-1977 legislative sessions. The debates contain the names of speakers and a complete record of what was said on the floor of the Assembly.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Public Information Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Defendant index to enrolled decrees, in re papers, and other case files

Series Number

J2019

Summary

This series consists of a card file indexing part of Series J0061, Enrolled Decrees, In Re Papers, and Other Case Files, relating to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Circuits, Court of Chancery. Some cards, pertaining to divorce cases, cannot be attributed to a circuit. Cards generally list defendant and a cross-reference to a file or case number. Some cards list plaintiff; type of action; file date and names of solicitor/counselor. 5th Circuit cases pertain almost solely to naturalizations.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Index to cases

Series Number

J2031

Summary

This series consists of an index of names of parties in court cases and reference page numbers of unspecified volumes. Records cited in the indexes are unknown.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Admission and discharge registers

Series Number

B2368

Summary

The registers in this series contain handwritten entries of admissions, discharges, and case observations, among other critical patient information. Data includes name, date of admission, age, county and/or municipality of origin, date of commitment, maintenance, and staff remarks. The indexes in this series record the patient's name, casebook volume and page number(s), existence of clinical records, burial record, autopsy record, or prescription record, or date of discharge.

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.

Title

Governor Thomas E. Dewey index to central subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B1852

Summary

This photocopy of the "Register of the Thomas E. Dewey Papers, 1902-1971" compiled by John L. Figel, indexes the Central Subject and Correspondence files of Governor Dewey found in accretions 13682-55 and 13682-55A.

Creator

• New York (State). Governor (1943-1954 : Dewey)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Card index to abstracts, check rolls, and vouchers for canal expenditures

Series Number

B1846

Summary

This series indexes bundled expenditure records in Series A0013, Abstracts, Check Rolls, and Vouchers for Canal Expenditures. The index is arranged by canal, then by year, and then by name of superintendent of repairs.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Department of Transportation Map Information Unit county index maps

Series Number

B2285

Summary

This series consists of maps, plans, and aerial photographs created by the Map Information Unit apparently for the purpose of creating or updating county maps. The material was created by several private companies and is commonly annotated. Indexes may not be present for all counties.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Map Information Unit

Access Restrictions

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