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Warrants of survey, powers of attorney, Indian deeds, and other records

Series Number

A1885

Summary

This series contains mostly warrants of survey but includes also a few unrelated legal documents. Colonial governors ordered surveys of all lands for which settlers applied for purchase. The warrants are the governor's orders to the surveyor general to carry out the survey. They provide name of governor; name of surveyor general; for whom land is to be surveyed; acreage and location of land; and date of warrant. The records suffered some burn damage in the 1911 State Capitol fire.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Governor

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Western Division resident engineer's letter book

Series Number

B0731

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Revolving account book of Superintendent of Grain Elevators

Series Number

B0714

Summary

This account book was generated by the office of C.W. Austin, Superintendent of Grain Elevators. There are multiple lists which note companies, names of individuals, and numerical figures. Also recorded in this book is payroll information, including the names of employees and the salaries they received. Information on deposits, balances and "balance on hand" can be found.

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County Vocational Education and Extension Boards correspondence and program files

Series Number

B0475

Summary

Legislation establishing county vocational education and extension boards (Laws of 1926, Chapter 505) required that the Commissioner of Education approve courses offered by the boards. These files contain correspondence, memorandums, reports, charts, application forms, and news clippings about programs and services offered by such boards. For each county there are separate files for correspondence and for plans and reports. The latter files contain applications for approval of proposed services giving information about the service, schools served, number of students served, and provider's staff.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Rural Administrative Services

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Minutes and scrapbooks

Series Number

14085

Summary

The State Legislature established experimentally in 1946 and permanently in 1948 a three-member State Employees' Merit Award Board to plan and administer awards programs for meritorious suggestions and accomplishments. This series consists of the Board's minutes, scrapbooks, and few miscellaneous files. The minutes contain each meeting's date and names of attendees, and a summary of Board actions. Most Board actions concern the disposition of suggestions and administrative matters.

Creator

• New York State Employees Merit Award Board

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Assistant Commissioner's correspondence and subject files

Series Number

11843

Summary

This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, and press releases between the Director of the State Museum, later the Assistant Commissioner for State Museum and State Science Service, and Museum scientists and other staff, administrators and scientists at other institutions, private citizens, and officials in other State agencies. The records document research projects; exhibit planning; acquisition and management of collections; field work; publications; advice to other institutions; education; research grants; professional development; and museum legislation.

Creator

• New York State Museum and Science Service

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Assorted records

Series Number

A4117

Summary

The New York State Soldiers Depot was established to be a place of rest and relief for sick, sounded, furloughed, and discharged New York soldiers during the Civil War. This series includes correspondence, descriptive rolls for individual soldiers, receipts for claims, inventories of the depot's kitchen and dining room, discharge papers, receipts for official records received from the Adjutant-General's Office, certificates of enlistment, matron's reports, list of depot expenditures, receipts for work performed at the depot, and furloughs.

Creator

• New York State Soldiers' Depot

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Inspector General's Office copies of correspondence forwarded from the Governor's Office

Series Number

A4103

Summary

This series consists of copies of incoming correspondence directed to Governor Edwin D. Morgan, originally found in Inspector General's administrative correspondence files. The Executive Chamber probably forwarded these copies to the Inspector General in order to keep him informed of current events or because they dealt with matters which required his attention. One of the Inspector General's major responsibilities was to attend to the organization of the militia, which is what the bulk of this correspondence is concerned with.

Creator

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

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Abstract of military commissions issued

Series Number

13728

Summary

This series provides abstracts of military commissions of officers in the New York State Militia, later National Guard. Information includes: officer's name; office; regiment, brigade or division number; residence; date of commission; and date of rank. Volumes twelve and thirteen of accretion 13728-83 relate to the Civil War commissions.

Creator

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

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School supervision files

Series Number

A3040

Summary

These files contain field reports of visits by bureau staff to schools around the state. Also included are correspondence, memorandums, meeting programs, and other records. The records contain detailed information about the conduct of home economics classes in individual schools, provision of guidance to home economics educators, curricula, teacher training, equipment and facilities available, and professional conferences.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Home Economics Education

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Photographs and plans of Roberts Hall, East Roberts Hall, and Stone Hall, Cornell University

Series Number

B0926

Summary

This series of photographs and plans documents interiors and exteriors of Roberts Hall, East Roberts Hall, and Stone Hall, the original buildings of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Binders contain information on the history of the three buildings and the complex. Also included are chronological history tables, floor plans, and elevations.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Educational Facilities Planning

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Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) project files

Series Number

14286

Summary

These files document the Adirondack Park Agency's function of implementing the Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan through evaluation of proposed development projects. Many such projects, including the Loon Lake Estates project, had a significant environmental impact beyond their immediate area. The files contain correspondence, maps, plans, permits, hearing records, press clippings, deeds, public comments, administrative decisions and rulings, inspection reports, and litigation documents. Also included are photographs depicting sites being considered for and at various stages of development.

Creator

• Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.)

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State Architect's Approvals of Special Fund estimates

Series Number

B0339

Summary

This single volume contains letterpress copies of approvals of special fund estimates submitted to the state architect for review as required by Section 65 of the State Insanity Law. All of the special fund estimates in the volume pertain to the construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of state hospital buildings and grounds.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Architecture

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Education Department Bureau of School District Organization subject and administrative files

Series Number

B0477

Summary

These files document the Bureau's field activities and policy development relating to centralization and reorganization of school districts; district superintendents; legislative proposals; administration of programs specified in legislation; professional organizations; racial imbalance in elementary and secondary schools; state financial aid for education; vocational education. They also address procedures and departmental policy on the formation of central school districts, vocational education and enlarged city school districts.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of School District Organization

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Annual reports of bridge companies

Series Number

B0267

Summary

This series consists of bridge company annual reports including company name; filing date; dates articles of association filed; description of bridge, including: river it spans, town and county, length, width, height, and type; toll rates; capital stock data; cost of company property (bridge, toll house, right of way); indebtedness; receipts, payments, and yearly dividends; balance on hand; name of newspaper in which annual report published; names of company officers; and address of company.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Incoming correspondence from county treasurers

Series Number

A1051

Summary

This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of routine letters inquiring about laws on assessment and collections of taxes and redemption of lands sold for unpaid taxes, enclosing accounts, and other financial business between the comptroller and county treasurers.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Market and Consumer Information Service Utica regional livestock market reports

Series Number

A0720

Summary

Quotes for prices paid at Burton's Livestock Auction, Vernon, New York and Welch's Livestock Auction, West Edmeston, New York, were reported by the Senior Marketing Representative for the Utica State Office Building. The prices paid are per hundredweight except for cattle replacements which are sold by the head. The reports cover market prices for steers and heifers, cattle, dairy type slaughter cattle, calves, and dairy replacements.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets. Market and Consumer Information Service

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Western Division letter books

Series Number

B0690

Summary

This series is comprised of letter books used by the Western Division Engineer's Office to record copies of letters sent by division, resident, and assistant engineers. The letter books cover a wide variety of topics ranging from repairs and improvements of the Western Division of the Erie Canal, contracts with workers, repairs of lift bridges, estimates, and progress reports.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Governor executive orders

Series Number

13685

Summary

Executive Chamber staff maintained this file of photocopies of the governor's Executive Orders ordering the State Attorney General to carry out special prosecutions in New York, Bronx, Queens, Kings, and Richmond counties in cases of corruption by public servants. The bulk of the series consists of amendments citing cases to be prosecuted in each county. Also included are executive orders numbers 1-189 issued by Governor Mario M. Cuomo.

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Incoming correspondence of the Assistant State Paleontologist, State Paleontologist, State Geologist, and State Museum Director

Series Number

A4208

Summary

This series consists mostly of correspondence received by John M. Clarke, paleontologist and geologist while employed by the State Museum. Also included are a few letters to James Hall; letters received by "Professor Rupert Jones"; and notes and maps of amateur paleontologist Olof O. Nylander concerning paleontological research done in Maine.

Creator

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

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