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Title

Accounts of monies paid into treasuries of Albany and Dutchess counties

Series Number

A1240

Summary

This series consists of returns for taxes paid into the Albany and Dutchess Counties treasuries. Records include lists of dated returns denoting the amount of money that was collected in each district of the County. Dutchess County returns may also include the names of the collectors for each district and information on how the tax money was disbursed.

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 Governor Assistant to the Governor correspondence and subject files of George B. Graves

Series Number

B1383

Summary

George B. Graves served under fourteen New York governors. He was appointed private secretary to Alfred E. Smith in 1924; later, he became assistant to the governor, a position especially created for him by Smith. Graves ended his thirty-six years of government service in 1928. This series consists primarily of files created and maintained by Graves during his service to Governor Smith. The files consist chiefly of correspondence, telegrams, memorandums, cross references, speech material, newspaper clippings, and printed material.

Creator

• New York (State). Governor. Assistant to the Governor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Matteawan State Hospital correction officers' observation log

Series Number

A1526

Summary

This series contains observations recorded by Matteawan State Hospital correctional officers (sometimes other hospital staff members) regarding inmate behavior. Entries record the date and time a particular action was observed; a brief description of the patient's actions; measures taken, if any, by the correctional officer; the patient's name and number; and the correction officer's signature. Records are restricted.

Creator

• Matteawan State Hospital

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 of Mental Health.

Title

New York State Legislative Commission of Public Management Systems subject files

Series Number

L0169

Summary

This series relates primarily to the Commission on Public Management Systems' concern with forecasting New York's future economic development and improving state government financial reporting and accounting systems. Records include correspondence, memorandums, background and annual reports, staff notes, meeting agenda and minutes, draft legislation, press clippings, and conference papers. Also included is information on the organization of state agencies, budget reform, performance measurement, internal control reform, tax-exempt financing, and the 1981 GAAP (Generally Approved Accounting Principals) law.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Legislative Commission on Public Management Systems

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Olean Public Schools grant project microfilm

Series Number

A3331

Creator

• Olean Public Schools (Olean, N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is restricted. Student records (including census, elementary records, and high school transcripts) are found throughout the series.

Title

Joint Legislative Committee on Housing bank and trust company investigation files

Series Number

L0182

Summary

This series details the financial activities of banks and trust companies through correspondence and financial records. The committee investigated the banking industry's investment activities related to housing and mortgages. Information includes correspondence, lists of stock and other securities, and descriptions of new loans made. Information on bank investments includes amounts invested, principal, interest, and dates of investment and maturity.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Housing

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform archived websites

Series Number

B2107

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible websites of the Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform.

Creator

• New York (State). Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Draft orders, correspondence, reports and miscellaneous papers

Series Number

J2061

Summary

This series consists of draft orders and decrees issued by the Vice Chancellor, copies of reports of fees collected by the court, lists of delinquent guardians, routine correspondence with the Chancellor and Register, appointment documents and oaths of office of court officials, and miscellaneous documents (e.g. deeds, letters, and mortgages) used as exhibits in cases. The draft orders, comprising one half of the series, were presumably entered in Clerk's Minutes of Common Orders and Clerk's Minutes of Decrees.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Letting records for contracts on various canals and locations in the Western Division of the canal system

Series Number

B0710

Summary

This series consists of records related to the letting of contracts for work on canals in the Western Division of the canal system. Records include requests for proposals; resolutions adopted by the Canal Board; and cost estimates.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Minutes of meetings of the Board of Parole

Series Number

B0076

Summary

This series consists of meeting minutes of the Parole Board of Auburn Prison and the State Prison for Women. Early minutes include transcriptions of interviews with incarcerated individuals; family relations, prospective employment after parole, and similar matters of interest to the Board. After 1930, minute only list of cases heard. Information includes incarcerated individual's name, consecutive number, date paroled or held, address paroled to or reason held. Some minutes are for hearings on applications for executive clemency. Records are partially restricted.

Creator

• Auburn Prison

Access Restrictions

Restricted. Some records contain information exempt from disclosure under Public Officers Law Art. 6.Access is pursuant to regulations of the commissioner of correctional services or (for applications for executive clemency) by permission of the governor's office.

Title

Chairman's reference files

Series Number

B1368

Summary

This series contains correspondence, reports, meeting agenda and minutes, press releases, statistical tables and charts, draft legislation, and other records pertaining to the commission's investigation of methods used by state government to apportion aid to localities. These files were maintained by Frank Moore, the commission's chairman, who later became the first executive director of the Division of Equalization and Assessment.

Creator

• New York (State). Temporary State Commission on Per Capita Aid

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Notices of resignations, deaths and removals from office

Series Number

13249

Summary

The bulk of this series consists of letters sent to the New York State Secretary of State from local government officials and state legislators announcing resignations, deaths, or removals from office. Some of the letters are submitted from the officials themselves, whereas others simply announce that vacancies have become available in certain positions. The letters are stamped with the date received by the Department of State.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Public Health and Health Planning Council meeting and administrative files

Series Number

10740

Summary

This series consists of agendas, transcripts, minutes, and agenda books derived from meetings of the Public Health Council and its successor, the Public Health and Health Planning Council.

Creator

• Public Health and Health Planning Council (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Restricted: Documents pertaining to administrative complaints regarding improper practices in hospital staff appointments and extension of professional privileges, received by the Public Health Council or the Public Health and Health Planning Council, are declared to be confidential by Public Health Law section 2801-b.

Title

Commission to Study, Examine and Investigate State Agencies in Relation to Pari-Mutuel Harness Racing investigation and exhibit files on corporations

Series Number

10998

Summary

This series consists of background information and supporting documentation compiled by the commission during its investigation of harness track owners and the associations licensed by to conduct pari-mutuel harness racing. The commission traced stock ownership, studied financial records, and questioned witnesses related to the operations and management of licensees and lessors. The files include correspondence; interviews; transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations; and police records. Investigation reports on stockholders provide names, place of birth, parents' names, marital status, and occupations.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

All investigative materials in Moreland Act commission records are indefinitely restricted pursuant to Executive Law sect. 6 and 63.8 and Civil Rights Law sect. 73.8. Requests for access to such materials are referred to the Governor's Office.

Executive Session (private hearing) materials: Restricted; Executive Law, Section 63.8.

Investigation background reports on individuals: Restricted; Personal Privacy Protection Law, Section 96.1.c and personal privacy exemption of Freedom of Information Law, Section 87.2.b.

Federal and state tax returns: Restricted: Closed permanently; exempted from public disclosure by specific statutes, therefore deniable under Freedom of Information Law, Section 87.2.a.

Finding aid to the records, which lists subjects of investigations: Restricted; Executive Law, Section 63.8, Civil Rights Law, Section 73.8.

Title

Certificates of clerkships

Series Number

J0104

Summary

This series contains documents relating to clerkships served by persons who eventually would seek admission to practice as attorneys in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Records concerning law clerkships include certificates stating that a student began a clerkship and setting the term of the clerkship; affidavits of clerkship applicants; certificates attesting to the clerk's moral character; reports of examiners on whether individual candidates passed; and related documents.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Auburn Prison daily reports of male population

Series Number

B0062

Summary

This series consists of statistical records of Auburn prisons' population of incarcerated individuals. Information may include total number: in prison; in prison at morning and in evening; received; discharged; lodgers; applications for treatment; treated; not treated; excused from labor; pardoned; died; sent to other locations; new commitments; transfers from other correctional institutions; returned from parole, courts or escape; released by parole, expiration of sentence or commutation; escaped, condemned; and housed in cells, dormitories, hospital; and at other locations.

Creator

• Auburn Prison

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Proposals received for work done on the Middle Division of the Erie Canal

Series Number

B0704

Summary

This series consists of printed forms of proposals for work to be done on the Middle Division of the Erie Canal. The proposals contain information on materials used, descriptions of work, and costs of projects.

Creator

• New York (State). Canal Commissioners

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review budget study reports

Series Number

L0196

Summary

Budget study reports in this series typically include a summary of the organizational and funding structure of the agencies studied; program budgeting and cost levels; comparative information on similar programs; related issue papers; supporting documentation; and supplemental data. There are also summaries of legislative actions ("Green Book" studies) which provide fund/program name; appropriation increase/decrease; legislative statement of intent; actions taken to implement the legislative intent; and the budgetary effect of actions taken.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Legislative Commission on Expenditure Review

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Homes and Community Renewal archived websites

Series Number

B2113

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible websites of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal and New York State Homes and Community Renewal, which was created in 2010 through the administrative integration of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal, the Housing Finance Agency, the State of New York Mortgage Authority, the Housing Trust Fund Corporation, the Affordable Housing Corporation, the State of New York Municipal Bond Bank Agency, and the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation.

Creator

• New York State Homes and Community Renewal

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Commission in Lunacy annual reports

Series Number

B1432

Summary

This series consists of published copies of selected annual reports prepared by the commission to summarize its work and make recommendations. Typically the reports include general information on the state system, and certain early reports address the licensed private institution systems and the general hospital system. Reports also give a summary of recommendations, general statistics, and the annual reports submitted to the commission by the boards of managers of the various state hospitals.

Creator

• New York (State). State Commission in Lunacy

Access Restrictions

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