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Displaying 270 Finding Aids
Title
- Selected audited accounts of state civil and military officers
Series Number
- A0802
Summary
- The series includes vouchers, accounts, contracts, correspondence, and related documents of various state civil and military officers including Commissioners of Highways, Commissioners of Fortifications, Commissary of Military Stores, Council of Appointment, Pay Master General, agents of New York State with the United States, Commissioners of Indian Affairs, Indian agents, s, Adjutant General, and Quarter Master General. The series also contains financial documents and claims relating to "detached" militia companies that were placed under Federal command during the War of 1812.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- Photocopying is restricted because most of the documents are fragile and many of them are pasted in overlapping sets on a folio page.
Title
- Payment authorization to treasurer
Series Number
- A0839
Summary
- These records, from the Comptroller's Office consist of warrants to pay salary of the Attorney General.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Daily journal
Series Number
- A1329
Summary
- This series consists of a chronological record of payments made by the State. Information includes the person, agency, or institution to which payment is to be made; warrant number; amount; and daily totals. Payments were made to brigade inspectors; the banking department; county treasurers; the court of errors; and on accounts such as expenses of the Comptroller's Office, expenses of the geological survey, postage for state offices, and expenses of the building of the new state hall.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Statement of interest due to holders of New York State stock (various issues)
Series Number
- A1307
Summary
- This series consists of bound volumes containing statements of interest due to holders of state stock (including canal stock), with receipts. Each entry gives amount of stock (in dollars), stockholder's name, amount of interest due, date paid, and signature of stockholder or representative.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Comptroller's Office cancelled state stock certificates
Series Number
- A1449
Summary
- This series contains cancelled or unused certificates of state stock issued for construction of canals, railroads, the new Capitol, and for general fund expenditures. Accompanying many certificates are receipts for payment of principal and interest, powers of attorney for transfer of stock, a few stub books, lists of stockholders, and other miscellaneous documents. Scores of different stock issues are included; each issue was authorized by an act of the Legislature.
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 Department of Audit and Control Bureau of Municipal Research and Statistics annual county constitutional tax margin statements
Series Number
- 13332
Summary
- This series consists of annual statements of counties relating to the computation of their constitutional tax margins. Each statement contains a breakdown of the current tax including computation of constitutional taxing power, determination of amount not affected by constitutional tax limitation, total taxing power of county tax levies and charges which are subject to the tax limit, and the constitutional tax margins. Some of the statements also contain notes and work sheets.
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 the material.
Title
- Treasurer's journal of receipts and expenditures
Series Number
- A1314
Summary
- This journal was kept by the Treasurer for receipts and expenditures of the state. Information includes date; receipt number; source of monies (taxes, e.g. quit rent, vendue duty, mortgages, etc.); amount; check and warrant numbers; payee (members of the legislature, other state and local officials, and various other creditors of the state) and amount.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledger for state and private stock sale
Series Number
- A1300
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of ledgers of accounts for sales of stock. Each account lists name of stockholder, amount paid in (Canal Fund, Sinking Fund, banks, railroads, manufacturing companies, etc.), and amount of stock issued. A few addresses of stockholders are noted, especially for residents of other states and foreign countries. Also included is a separate alphabetical name index.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Abstracts of payments of New York state bounty by the paymaster general
Series Number
- A1328
Summary
- This series consists of monthly statistical summaries of the number of men receiving payments from the paymaster general's office for sums varying from $10.00 to $150.00. The information contained includes number of men receiving each amount and total amount paid out for the month.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Ledger of taxes on corporations
Series Number
- A1301
Summary
- This ledger records taxes assessed on and paid by corporations. Information includes incorporated companies; amount of real and personal property owned; tax or commutation due; amount of stock owned by residents of the county; and amount of tax collected. Individual stockholders' names are not given, but the various incorporated companies (banks, insurance companies, turnpike and steamboat companies, etc.) are listed.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's accounts with county treasurers for taxes due the state
Series Number
- A1315
Summary
- This series consists of accounts for taxes due the state from county treasurers. Information includes taxes due the state, with notes of total valuations of real and personal estate and balances; cash payments by county treasurers; fees of collectors and county treasurers; arrears for non-resident taxes by towns; and taxes on corporations brought forward from another book. Also included is an index to counties.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's blank forms
Series Number
- A0962
Summary
- The series consists of blank printed forms and circular letters used in the office of the Comptroller. Forms are numbered on endorsement, and the number of copies indicated.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts of town assessors and commissioners of taxes
Series Number
- A0976
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of accounts submitted by the assessors from eleven counties to Commissioners of Taxes. Information includes assessors name; number of days spent assessing lands, preparing lists of assessments, hearing appeals, equalizing the assessments, and preparing the final rolls. Also included are affidavits stating that the work was "actually and diligently" performed; transmittal letters; certifications of elected assessors and collectors of taxes, and abstracts of assessors' accounts.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Register of bonds of state and local officials
Series Number
- A1331
Summary
- This series consists of a volume listing bonds filed by a wide variety of state and local government officers. Each entry includes date of bond, file number, office holder's name, and office. (The original bonds are lost.) Offices include, but are not limited to, registers and clerks of the Court of Chancery, Indigenous agents and superintendents (by reservation), superintendents of the Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation, commissioners of military stores, paymasters general (military), state prison agents and clerks, commissioners of state roads and bridges, state lottery managers, Senate and Assembly clerks, and agents of "foreign" (i.e. out-of-state) insurance companies. County-level offices include commissioners of state loans, commissioners of the United States Deposit Fund, and county treasurers.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Abstract of statement of monies received by the Clerk of the Supreme Court in the City of New York
Series Number
- A1319
Summary
- This series consists of booklets containing abstracts of fees and other monies received by the Clerk of the Supreme Court in the City of New York or his deputy. The abstracts were compiled and submitted to the Comptroller in pursuance of a law regarding compensation of Clerks of the Supreme Court. The statements give names of individuals and amounts.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Annual financial reports of municipalities' joint activities
Series Number
- 14494
Summary
- The State General Municipal Law requires the chief fiscal officer of every municipal corporation to make an annual report of its financial condition to the State Comptroller. The annual reports consist of computer generated forms prepared by the Comptroller's Office and sent to the corporations for completion and return. Reports typically include a description of assets, appropriations, liabilities, and fund equities; a statement of indebtedness; a list of bond issues; and a certification statement signed by the corporation's chief financial officer.
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
- Vouchers submitted for publishing session laws of 1893
Series Number
- A0952
Summary
- This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of vouchers itemized each chapter printed, column inches, and amount due to newspaper from the State. Attached to each voucher is a certificate from the Deputy Secretary of State that the publication was made according to provisions of Chapter 715 of Laws of 1892.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Payroll book for employees of state agencies
Series Number
- B1378
Summary
- This series consists of accounts of monthly salary payments to what appears to be all state agency employees for a given year, 1906-1907. Each page contains printed headings for name and position, month, totals, and remarks. Agency, office, name of employee, position, annual salary, amount paid by month and total for each employee are handwritten.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- County Commissioners accounts relating to interest on the U.S. Deposit Fund
Series Number
- A1287
Summary
- This series consists of annual accounts of total amount of interest due and paid to the Comptroller from principal held by County Commissioners of the U.S. Deposit Fund. Each account includes the names of the commissioners, date of balance, amounts of debits and credits, and any balance due (usually because of delinquent mortgagors).
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Payroll for construction of Auburn Prison
Series Number
- A1293
Summary
- Legislation of 1818 authorized the State Comptroller to settle accounts relating to the state prison to be built at Auburn. This series records payments to workers on the construction of Auburn Prison. A two-week cycle record is kept of category of worker; number of days worked; wage per day; and list of laborers in each category.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.