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Title

Commission to Study, Examine and Investigate State Agencies in Relation to Pari-Mutuel Harness Racing concessionaire questionnaire and exhibit files

Series Number

B1320

Summary

The commission collected these completed questionnaires in order to collect information on financial and business dealings between harness racing associations and corporations holding concessions from such associations. The questionnaires required detailed background and financial information from concessionaires (suppliers of programs, food, souvenirs, parking, or other goods or services), including the attachment of relevant documentation.

Creator

• New York (State). Commission to Study, Examine and Investigate State Agencies in Relation to Pari-Mutuel Harness Racing

Access Restrictions

Restricted to permission of Governor's office.

Title

Register of delivery of laws, patents, deeds, and other documents

Series Number

B1446

Summary

This series consists of registers or lists of summary information. Included are lists of towns to which state publications were delivered; pardons issued and delivered, listing slaves and their owners, other blacks, by name; patents delivered, after recording; receipts by counties of state official standard of long measure, documenting that some counties did not pick up their official yardstick until thirty years after issue date; and deeds, mortgages, releases, quit claims, and other instruments received for recording and delivered.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Department of Taxation and Finance canal fund ledger

Series Number

B0980

Summary

This series consists of ledgers listing accounts of New York State with banks in which Canal Fund moneys were deposited.

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Minutes of Board meetings

Series Number

J2029

Summary

This series consists of minutes documenting activities of the State Board of Examiners. Minutes typically document examination and approval or disapproval of applications to the bar, establishment of rules, and establishment of dates and places for bar examinations.

Creator

• New York (State). State Board of Law Examiners

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Public Service Commission subject, correspondence, and utility files

Series Number

19738

Summary

These records document Harold A. Jerry's service as a member and later chairman of the Public Service Commission. The files consist of three record types: subject files, correspondence files, and utility files.

Creator

• New York (State). Public Service Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Commissioner's addresses and articles

Series Number

A2098

Summary

This series consists of addresses by Education Department Commissioners. Included are addresses, drafts and notes by Andrew S. Draper. Many of which were presented at school commencements and before community organizations. Topics include education trends, the role of American Universities, the functioning and purpose of schools, school curricula, New York's role in education and historical topics, such as the settlement of the Alabama claims, the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, and the Civil and Revolutionary War.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Commissioner's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Documents relating to the records survey of 1950 and subsequent disposition

Series Number

B1452

Summary

In 1950, a survey was conducted of inactive records filed with the Department of Audit and Control with only a 5 per cent sample preserved. Historical records from the sample were inadvertently taken for disposal to Quebec, Canada; about one-third of which were recovered. This series consists of inventory reports; correspondence; articles and other materials documenting this survey and the resulting disposition of those records. Most material pertains to records recovery activities.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Canal superintendents' accounts

Series Number

A0857

Summary

This volume, arranged by canal, then chronologically, contains accounts of superintendents of New York State's canals. Information includes: date monies paid out or received; nature of the transaction; amounts and figures on services and disbursements. Some correspondence clarifying particular entries, and attesting that work was completed or monies received are also included.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

U.S. Deposit Fund day books

Series Number

B0994

Summary

These daybooks contain annual summaries of mortgage accounts of the U.S. Deposit Fund and the William Vorce Fund. For each active mortgage, information includes mortgage number, name of original mortgagor, date of mortgage, amount of unpaid principal, name and address of present owner, payments during current fiscal year, and remarks (e.g. sent to Attorney General for foreclosure action).

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Department of Transportation Executive Deputy Commissioner's Office subject files

Series Number

B1334

Summary

This series consists of the subject files of Department of Transportation Executive Deputy Commissioner E. B. Hughes. Files document all aspects of departmental responsibility including State Thruway and arterial highway construction and maintenance; traffic safety; the interstate highway system; Tri-State Transportation Study; rights of way; federal aid; state office buildings; and canal system maintenance and operation.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Executive Deputy Commissioner's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Averill Park Central School District board of education meeting minutes

Series Number

A4600

Summary

Microfilmed school board minutes contain treasury reports, budgets, hiring notices, minutes, legal actions, resolutions, records of elections, and building project information. Microfilmed records include minutes of the board of education and district meetings of the Averill Park Central School District and minutes of district meetings of the Town of Sand Lake Common School District 7.

Creator

• Averill Park Central School District (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Guard house book

Series Number

B1863

Summary

This series documents the disciplinary movement of incarcerated individuals into and out of the institution's guardhouse where they were confined in isolation. Entries include consecutive number, surname of the incarcerated individual, date received in guard house, name of receiving officer, date released from guard house, and name of physician for daily visit. In some instances, remarks such as "sent to hospital" or reduced "to 3rd grade," (loss of privileges and temporary ineligibility for parole) are recorded.

Creator

• Elmira Reformatory

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Exhibits of public school students' work

Series Number

A0300

Summary

These exhibit records consist of public school students' work from the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Sample student work came from New York City, Buffalo, and Plattsburgh public school systems. Other items included are photographs of school buildings, pamphlets, and art work.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Public Instruction

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Barge Canal construction photographs

Series Number

11833

Summary

These photographs appear to have been submitted to the State Engineer and Surveyor by the Board of Consulting Engineers, a board of five civil engineers appointed to follow the progress of work on the canal system and to report on it to the State Engineer and Surveyor. Photographs show: canals; locks; dams; bridges; piers; nearby buildings; damages needing repair; dredging, excavation, repairs, and construction work in progress; culverts; and canal-specific fixtures (i.e., lights).

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Director's correspondence concerning surveys

Series Number

A4172

Summary

This series consists of three subseries, each concerning a different survey conducted by the Historical Records Survey (HRS). They contain: Subseries 1, correspondence concerning survey of town and village records; Subseries 2, correspondence concerning survey of county records; Subseries 3, correspondence concerning American Imprints Inventory.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Registers of officers elected or appointed to state offices and boards

Series Number

A0472

Summary

These registers were used to record names of individuals elected or appointed to a wide variety of state offices and boards. Positions documented range from statewide elective offices such as governor, comptroller, and attorney general to appointive offices such as adjutant general, superintendent of public instruction, and canal commissioner.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Valley Stream Union Free School District No. 13 board of education meeting minutes

Series Number

A4614

Creator

• Valley Stream Union Free School District No. 13 (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

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Statistical reports of the Classification Clinic

Series Number

B1687

Summary

This series consists of statistical reports documenting activities of the Clinton Prison Classification Clinic. Reports give the numbers of: classified inmates, unclassified inmates, inmates interviewed for purposes other than classification or parole, inmates interviewed by psychiatrist for preparation for parole, inmates under observation, inmates transferred to state hospital on account of insanity, inmates placed in observation during month on account of peculiar conduct, inmates transferred to Napanoch and to Albion, and of reports done for parole, clemency, and selective service.

Creator

• Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.

Title

Thomas Indian School Superintendent's daily diaries

Series Number

B0599

Summary

These diaries provide a summary record of activities of staff and students at the Thomas Indian School. Brief daily entries typically mention weather conditions; farm work in progress; maintenance and repair work in progress; entertainment provided to children; team sporting events; incidents pertaining to specific children; religious activities; correspondence sent by superintendent; and trips by superintendent and staff. Diaries are institutional in nature and therefore do not contain superintendents' personal opinions or observations regarding non-work related events.

Creator

• Thomas Indian School

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Indexes to Chaplains' registers of inmate case histories and parole agents' registers of occupation and conduct of paroled inmates

Series Number

A3153

Summary

The Protestant Chaplain created these indexes to access his volumes of Chaplains' Registers and Parole Agents' Registers which record inmate case histories and conduct of paroled inmates. Information includes names of male and female inmates; volume and page in Parole Agents' and Chaplains' registers and inmate number. 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).