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Title

Research files and background materials on various temporary state commissions

Series Number

A0526

Summary

The series consists of reports, memorandums, copies of proceedings, meeting minutes, and assorted related materials pertaining to several temporary state commissions. Included are various materials pertaining to proceedings of the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1967; Temporary State Commission on the Revision and Simplification of the Constitution (1959); Temporary Commission on the Fiscal Affairs of State Government (1952-1955); Temporary Commission on City Finances (1961); and Joint Hospital Survey and Planning Commission (1959).

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Title

Albany-Schenectady-Schoharie Board of Cooperative Educational Services District Superintendent of Schools records

Series Number

A3370

Summary

Microfilmed records include statistical, fiscal, legal, publicity, and other records relating to school districts in the constituent counties. Most of the documents relate to the district superintendent's function as representative and agent of the State Commissioner of Education. Records include annual financial and statistical reports; Communications Director's news files; District Superintendent's administrative office files; annual and statistical reports; component school district case files; certificates of apportionment of public school monies; teacher certificates; records of reorganization; and public employee contract negotiation files.

Creator

• Albany-Schenectady-Schoharie Board of Cooperative Educational Services (N.Y.) District Superintendent of Schools

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Title

Audited accounts of the comptroller

Series Number

A1475

Summary

The series consists of accounts audited by the state comptroller for monies due to the state treasury or owed to individuals or agencies by the state. Each entry includes name, date, brief description with amount due, and account balance. An index appears at the end of the volume.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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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

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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

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Title

Article 10 estate tax files

Series Number

19802

Summary

The Estates Tax Processing Unit deals with the payment of taxes against the transfer of property from the estates of decedents. Records include last wills and testaments; real property appraisals and photographs; correspondence; trust deeds; estate inventories; and other documents pertaining to the transfer of estates and payment of taxes on estates. Because most decedents established life trusts to dispose of their estates, the files often include wealthy citizens such as Astor, Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Taxation and Finance. Estates Tax Processing Unit

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Title

Assorted documents

Series Number

A0039

Summary

The series consists of an assortment of unrelated and unprocessed records from courts and various departments of state government. Records include receipts and cancelled checks from the Treasurer's Office (1921-1925); judgments and other court records; bonds, bills, receipts, and statements (ca. 1770-1800); and documents from the Secretary of State's office, such as payments of hemp bounties and state printer's accounts (ca. 1790-1830).

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

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Title

Abstracts of audited canal accounts

Series Number

A1084

Summary

The Commissioners of the Canal Fund were given charge of all financial operations of the canal system. These records are abstracts or summaries of audited accounts for expenditures on canals, including accounts with Canal Commissioners. Entries include contract or voucher number, name of payee, amount, and occasionally a brief note of purpose of the expenditure. Volume 2 includes accounts for the enlargement of the Erie Canal (1835-1840).

Creator

• New York (State). Commissioners of the Canal Fund

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Title

Subscriptions and redemption statements of canal stock, and lists of bank contracts for canal deposits

Series Number

A1094

Summary

This series consists of three pages listing contracts with banks allowing an interest on deposit of Canal monies at sixty days for 4.5 or 5% interest. Each entry provides the date of the contract; contract number; the name of the bank; and rate of interest.

Creator

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

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Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York federal legislation files

Series Number

B1983

Summary

This series documents federal legislation affecting or potentially affecting the Municipal Assistance Corporation.

Creator

• Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York

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Title

Copy of annual report on the canals

Series Number

A4022

Summary

This volume is actually a compilation of several reports written by the State Engineer and Surveyor and by division engineers which made up the part of the State Engineer and Surveyor's 1851 annual report on canals. The narratives concern construction completed, costs, estimated costs of needed work, and use of the canals.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

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Title

Vouchers

Series Number

B1884

Summary

This series consists of vouchers documenting sale of lands by the state. For the most part, monies raised by these sales were then deposited into either the state's general or school funds. The top half of the form was completed the Surveyor General's Office and normally provides the date of the transaction, a description of the lands sold, and the amount. The bottom half of the form was completed the State Treasurer's Office, signed by a State Treasurer Official and indicates from whom the funds were received, the amount, and date.

Creator

• New York (State). Surveyor General

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Title

Sewage treatment works construction planning grants files

Series Number

11460

Summary

The series consists of project files for sewage treatment works in state municipalities for which state planning aid was requested. The records include correspondence, memoranda, discharge permits, certificates of expenditures, engineers' field reports, and applications for state grants to fund preliminary and detailed plans for public sewer systems or treatment works. Typical projects include construction of sanitary sewers, truck sewer extensions, garbage incinerators, outfall sewers, and new disposal plants or proposed additions and alterations to existing sewage treatment plants.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Health

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Title

Daily statements of bank balances of the Canal Fund

Series Number

A1056

Summary

These statements from the Comptroller's Office include daily bank balances to the credit of various funds constituting the Canal Fund.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Records of the towns of Bath and Bradford and the villages of Bath and Savona

Series Number

A4527

Summary

Village of Bath records include village board meeting minutes, Police Commission minutes, cash accounts, and Utility Commission minutes. Town of Bath records include highway records, town clerk's record and minute books, annual organization meetings, and budgets. Town of Bradford records include minute books, road surveys, cattle brands, certificates of canvass, military rolls, supervisor's account books, and a highway account book. Village of Savona records consist of village board meeting minute books.

Creator

• Bath (N.Y. : Village)

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Title

Fragments of unidentified account books

Series Number

A1462

Summary

This series consists of fragmentary, unidentified books. Parts of at least six distinguishable accounts are present. Listings appear to represent amounts attributed for loan/warrants; apportionment of state school funds; canal revenues/loans; and land assessments.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Office of Program Development, Planning and Research Hurricane Agnes damage files

Series Number

10770

Summary

In June 1972, Hurricane Agnes caused flooding that led to real property damage in many Hudson Valley, Central, and Southern Tier counties in New York. Emergency federal disaster loans were made available soon afterward. This series contains correspondence, news releases, newspaper clippings, damage survey reports, resolutions, travel vouchers, and weather data dealing with damage claims, emergency state response, and cleanup efforts resulting from Hurricane Agnes.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Office of Program Development, Planning and Research

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Title

Annual debt statements of municipalities, fire districts, and school districts

Series Number

A0796

Summary

These debt statements were generated pursuant to Article 2, Section 109 of the Local Finance Law, requiring municipalities, fire districts, and school districts to file a verified statement of its debt before selling bonds. This series consists of annual and supplemental debt statements of municipalities (cities, counties, towns, and villages), fire districts, and school districts.

Creator

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

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Title

Senate press releases

Series Number

L0213

Summary

This series consists of press releases from offices of state legislators in the senate and assembly; executive chamber governors Rockefeller, Lindsay, La Guardia; various state agencies; state committees; and private organizations. A wide variety of subjects are covered in the series, notably: commerce; workman's compensation; milk pricing; tax laws and reform; bond issues; civil rights; and Republican Party politics. Additional material includes speech and broadcast transcripts and weekly legislative newsletters.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Senate

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Title

Budget transfer certificates

Series Number

B1411

Summary

The series contains records documenting the transfer, allocation, and accounting of expenditures by staff of the Division of the Budget. Capital certificates (1976-1986) are copies of letters advising the director of the Division of the Budget, Bureau of Accounts, of budget transfer certificates issued by the state comptroller. The certificates document allocations and transfers of funds (designated appropriations) to supplement agency project funds, thus qualifying for reimbursement from specified bond funds. The transfer certificates (1966-1985) are copies of certificates of transfer and allocation from the director of the Division of the Budget accounting for amounts transferred and allocated from capital construction fund appropriations projects designated to supplement other specific appropriations.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of the Budget

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