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Title

Index to canal plans, drawings, and blueprints

Series Number

B1883

Summary

This series consists of a card file index to Series B1567, Canal Plans, Drawings, and Blueprints, 1849-1920. The index is arranged roughly by canal name and/or by type of structure (such as bridges, locks, feeders, and dams). Index entries for plans destroyed are marked.

Creator

• New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Annual village constitutional tax margin statements

Series Number

12464

Summary

This series consists of printed forms used for computing constitutional taxing power of villages. That limit is arrived at by subtracting the amount of taxes levied for general village purposes from the amount of total village taxing power. The computation itself provides the following fiscal information: average full valuation (based on the last five completed assessment rolls); total full valuation; exclusions from the tax limit; and total village taxing power.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Affirmative action plans and monitoring files

Series Number

B0545

Summary

This series consists of: State Agency Affirmative Action Plans, outlining how the agency will increase employment opportunity for minorities, women and the disabled; DHR Monitoring Files which include correspondence and memoranda about the development, implementation, problems with and progress of affirmative action plans; and Merit System Affirmative Action Office and Monitoring Bureau Monitoring Files which includes 1980 DHR Progress Report to the Governor's Executive Committee on Affirmative Action, and Monitoring Bureau goals and procedures materials.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Division of Affirmative Career Programs. Monitoring Bureau

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Publications and press releases

Series Number

B2352

Summary

This series consists of copies of news articles, press releases, and other published materials issued by the agency to the media and others to inform the public about events, activities, and accomplishments.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Original bill of sale and record of the action of the Council of the Onondaga Indians whereby the University of the State of New York became Wampum Keeper of the Six Nations

Series Number

A0492

Summary

This series consists of the original bill of sale and record of the action of the Council of the Onondaga Nation which sold and transferred the Onondaga Nation's interest in the wampum belts and office of wampum-keeper to the State University of New York.

Creator

• New York State Museum

Title

Course syllabi

Series Number

B0551

Summary

The syllabi in this series were prepared by the Bureau if Business and Distributed Education and its administrative predecessors for courses in business education, commercial subjects, and distributive education. They served as guidelines for the teaching of typewriting, office practice, business law, commercial arithmetic, shorthand, business English, retailing, and sales techniques.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Bureau of Business and Distributive Education

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Commission on Acquisition of Land for Public Defense at Rockaway administrative files

Series Number

B0237

Summary

This series consists of documents relating to the acquisition of land deemed necessary by the federal government for establishment of defensive works at Rockaway Beach, Queens County, New York during World War I. Included are correspondence, minutes of meetings, exhibit materials, a few photographs, and copies of maps, plans, and legislation documenting work of the commission in acquiring and making improvements to the land for purposes of public defense.

Creator

• New York (State). Commission on Acquisition of Land for Public Defense at Rockaway

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Works Progress Administration sponsored surveys and studies

Series Number

A4179

Summary

This series consists of surveys and apparently unpublished studies conducted under W.P.A. sponsorship. These studies are on many subjects, but tend to focus on real estate values, land use, and population in communities in New York. Examples include police arrest survey; social and economic survey of Indian reservations; real property survey (several cities); report on Albany transients and homeless; professional and service projects; 1850 census index for Buffalo; and Erie County street names.

Creator

• United States. Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Index to deeds and mortgages

Series Number

A0479

Summary

This single volume series indexes deeds recorded by the Secretary of State during the period 1641-1846, encompassing Series A0453, Deed Books 1-42 and 43 (in part). An alphabetical index to grantees and grantors is provided for each deed book. The back of the volume contains an index to mortgages to the State ("State Mortgages") recorded by the Secretary of State during the period 1807-1842, encompassing Series A0477, Mortage Registers 1-3. An alphabetical index to mortgagors is provided for each mortgage register.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication or interlibrary loan.

Title

Receipt stubs for work done on the new State Capitol

Series Number

A3170

Summary

This series consists of stubs from receipts given to employees in exchange for work on the construction project for the new State Capitol building. Each stub lists information for two individuals, including last name and first name initials or abbreviations; employee's position; and date and time of issue.

Creator

• New York (State). New Capitol Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Files relating to the Commissioner's Museum Inquiry Committee and proposed State Museum building

Series Number

A3164

Summary

These files include records from departmental inquiries into the operation of the State Museum. Various reports, correspondence, photographs and background notes provide detailed information on the museum's functions and needs. Also included are planning documents, including plot and floor plans for a proposed new museum building in Albany (1930-1934). Photographs show birds, plants, mosses, and insects studied by State Museum staff; downtown Albany, State Education Building, State Capitol, and Alfred E. Smith State Office Building.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Statements of escheated lands in the New Military Tract and of land sales in certain other tracts

Series Number

B1868

Summary

Escheated lands are defined as unclaimed, abandoned, or uninherited property that passes to the custody of the state. The first part of this series consists of statements of escheated lands in the Military Tract "for which no grants have been ordered by the Commissioners of the Land Office." The series also contains statements for various tracts of land and information about certain townships and land patents.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Deputy Secretary of State's letter books

Series Number

A0323

Summary

This series contains letterpress copies of outgoing correspondence created by Deputy Secretary of State Anson S. Wood and Chief Clerk Lee Chamberlin. Much of the correspondence relates to searches for certificates and articles of incorporation on file in the Secretary's office and the filing of new certificates of incorporation and articles of association with the Secretary's office.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Affidavits of justification of special bail

Series Number

J1098

Summary

This series consists of affidavits of special bail for defendants. Each affidavit states that the special bail is worth double the amount demanded by the plaintiff in the writ of capias ad respondendum, after payment of all his debts, and that he is a freeholder or housekeeper in the county where the defendant resides.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Utica)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Adjutant General's Office letter books of outgoing correspondence

Series Number

A4145

Summary

This series consists of two volumes of outgoing correspondence sent from the Adjutant General's office to officers of New York militia units, other military personnel, and Governors Daniel D. Tompkins and William L. Marcy. A significant amount of correspondence covers Governor Tompkins's effort to mobilize state resources at the beginning of the War of 1812 and the state's effort in 1846 to organize volunteers to fight in the Mexican War.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Child fatality investigative files

Series Number

B2391

Summary

These records document investigations of the deaths of children in foster care and those reported to the State Central Register.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Social Services. Division of Services and Community Development

Access Restrictions

Restricted to protect personal privacy.

Title

Delaware County village board meeting minutes and tax assessment rolls

Series Number

A4623

Creator

• Delaware (N.Y. : County)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

State Museum and Science Service news release and public relations files

Series Number

B0586

Summary

This series consists of drafts and final copies of news releases, public relations publications, and occasional correspondence relating to public educational activities of the State Museum. News releases constitute the bulk of the series.

Creator

• New York State Museum and Science Service

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Records of an investigation into the administration of the Rensselaer County Almshouse

Series Number

A1983

Summary

This series contains transcripts of testimony, letters, and depositions of officials, employees, and inmates providing information on conditions and treatment of inmates at the Rensselaer County Almshouse. The testimony covers routine operations of the institution, conduct and efficiency of the staff, and treatment and abuse of inmates. Included is information on the case of alleged abuse of almshouse hospital patients by nurse, William Wilmot.

Creator

• New York (State). State Board of Charities

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Assorted estrayed institutional records

Series Number

B1698

Summary

This series contains an assortment of unrelated records that were apparently removed from institutional records for purposes of research or exhibit. Volumes include: an admissions book (July 1925-June 1926); a parole/elopement book (May-December 1917); a book of escapes (April 1953-August 1957); a clothing account check book (mostly blank) with receipts for the New York Asylum for Idiots (ca. 1862); and a hospital admission/discharge book (1928). It also contains an assortment of apparently unrelated material collected for historical or documentary significance.

Creator

• Syracuse Developmental Center

Access Restrictions

Restricted in part in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. Restricted records in accession B1698-00 are located in Box 2.