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Title

Assessment rolls for construction of roads from Lewis County to Brown's Tract in Herkimer County

Series Number

B0989

Summary

The Legislature appointed commissioners to construct roads from Grieg and Port Leyden in Lewis County, to Brown's Tract in Herkimer County. The commissioners were empowered to levy a highway tax. This series consists of assessment rolls containing lists of lots taxed. Information includes lot numbers, acreage, and tax amounts.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Comptroller's accounts of taxes due for various state roads

Series Number

A1290

Summary

This series consists of statements of taxes due from landowners for laying or improving roads adjacent to their property. Each entry includes lot number, owner's name, tax due, date and amount of payment, and payee. Roads included are those from Chester to Canton, Hopkinton to North West Bay, St. Lawrence River to Albany, Salina to Adams, Turin to Emilyville, Salina to Redfield, and from Mexico Harbour to the town of Constantia.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

List of taxes paid to road districts

Series Number

A1339

Summary

Tax money was collected for highways and later redistributed through the Comptroller's Office. This series records tax money distributed to different road districts by the Comptroller. It also indicates the laws by which various road districts were created, as well as the laws affecting the district.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Highway money system reports by county boards

Series Number

A1375

Summary

This series consists of reports of tax levied for the repair of highways by the Board of Supervisors for the respective counties. Information includes town name; assessed valuation and equalized valuation of real estate in the town; assessed valuation of real estate exclusive of all incorporated villages; assessed valuation of personal property exclusive of all incorporated villages that maintain their highways as separate road districts; highway tax; extraordinary repairs; and total tax.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

General and Canal Fund bond register

Series Number

A1403

Summary

The register of State bonds is organized by alphabetically, M-Z only, by city or town of bank holding the bond. Each entry includes name and location of bank; date of maturity, name, and amount of security;; date of bond and rate of interest.. Bonds were issued for many purposes, including highways, bridges, parks, railroad crossing elimination, unemployment relief, etc. Also contains bonds fro Port Authority of New York and other authorities.

Creator

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

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Title

County and town highway expenditure records

Series Number

B2746

Summary

This series contains expenditure reports and other related records generated by the Department of Public Works Division of Highways pertaining to the construction and maintenance of county and town highways. Also included are booklets created by the County Highway Superintendents Association.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Highways

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Title

Route books for Federal-Aid highways

Series Number

14156

Summary

This series contains letters designating New York highways as eligible for federal aid, letters approving revisions or additions to the system as of 1931, and letters approving federal aid for highways. Included are descriptions of routes approved as of January 9, 1931, including beginning and ending points, intermediate cities, villages, and hamlets; and correspondence concerning designations of "urban areas." as defined by the Federal-aid Highway Act. Many of the letters refer to maps that are not in the State Archives.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation

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Title

Federal-aid secondary highway system county maps

Series Number

14154

Summary

The series consists of maps of all the counties in New York, outside of New York City, annotated to show proposed and approved federal-aid secondary highways as of 1945. There are two maps present for each county: one indicates state and county highways that were not considered part of the federal-aid highway system; the other shows the state and county highways that were designated as part of the system.

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Title

Federal-Aid urban area boundary maps

Series Number

14155

Summary

This series consists of maps of urban area boundaries drafted in district offices or modified from, U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle maps. Maps had to be approved by the U.S. Public Roads Administration or Bureau of Public Roads for states wishing to receive special aid for highways lying within urban areas. Some maps show all Federal-Aid highways systems; older maps show only primary, secondary, and urban routes.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation

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Title

County Clerks' reports (statements) on the highway money system

Series Number

A1374

Summary

This series consists of statement reports relating to using of a percentage of property tax assessments to finance money highway repairs. The reports are primarily on printed forms. Some forms are accompanied by comptroller's correspondence and board of supervisor's correspondence, etc. For some counties (very limited) there are maps of highways delineated. The form contains a listing by county of assessed valuation of taxable property and percentages of assessment to use for the money system of highway repair.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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