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Displaying 59 Finding Aids
Title
- Executive meeting and certification records
Series Number
- B2360
Summary
- This series consists of certification records, meeting minutes, memorandums, resolutions, and related material compiled by the executive secretaries of the State Board of Tax Commissioners, State Tax Commission, and the Commissioner of the Department of Taxation and Finance pursuant to Section 172 of the New York State Tax Law. It provides documentation of the decisions made by these entities through the meeting minutes and other executive-level records that are contained in each binder.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Taxation and Finance. Commissioner's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Canaseraga Creek improvement records
Series Number
- A0890
Summary
- The series consists of documents relating to the Canaseraga Creek improvement project begun in 1906. The Canaseraga Creek is an important tributary of the Genesee River. Heavy silt deposits and the irregular course of the creek inhibited free passage of water, resulting in severe annual flooding. The slow subsidence of flood waters on the flat land impaired cultivation and caused damage. The records document efforts to redress the situation posed by damage to the public health.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Assorted documents relating to grant, sale, or mortgage of lands by the state
Series Number
- A1016
Summary
- This series consists of a diverse array of documents, including certificates of land sales and other legal documentation of lands sold by the State Comptroller for unpaid taxes.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany) briefs, draft rules, and motions
Series Number
- J7011
Summary
- This series consists of briefs, draft rules, affidavits and notices of motions, certificates of clerkships, and other documents bundled together by court term. Included are a few rules for attachment of property of sheriffs who had failed to put in bail for defendants; orders for holding circuit courts; opinions; and petitions for appointment of Supreme Court Commissioners. The series also includes a few affidavits of war service and property by Revolutionary War veterans intending to apply for pensions.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Albany)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Commissioner's election certificates
Series Number
- A2046
Summary
- This series consists of the two election certificates of Andrew S. Draper as the first Commissioner of Education. The Unification Act of 1904 creating the State Education Department, and f the Education Law of 1909 specified that the Commissioner be elected by the legislature until 1910; subsequently the Board of Regents would appoint the Commissioner. The 1904 certificate was certified by the Secretary of State; the 1910 certificate was certified by the Board of Regents.
Creator
- University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Court of Appeals certificates of commencement of clerkships
Series Number
- J0102
Summary
- This series consists certificates of commencement of clerkships.
Creator
- New York (State). Court of Appeals
Access Restrictions
- Access to records in this series is restricted in accordance with New York State Judiciary Law, Section 90.10. Prior permission of the Court of Appeals is required.
Title
- Comptroller's Office certificates of sale of land for unpaid taxes
Series Number
- B0918
Summary
- This series consists of records certifying the purchase of parcels of land for unpaid taxes. Certificates include purchaser; number of acres or size of lot purchased; county; lot number and description; amount paid; and date of sale. Some certificates include an assignment to a third party.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Certificates of election to the Board of State Canvassers
Series Number
- 13247
Summary
- This series consists of certificates of election to the Board of State Canvassers.
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
- Certificates of clerkships
Series Number
- J2104
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. These documents appear to have been filed at Utica, not Geneva.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Certificates of designation of judges
Series Number
- A1864
Summary
- This series consists of executive orders signed by the governor and his private secretary designating extraordinary court terms and assigning judges to preside over these terms, or appointing a judge or justice to the court of appeals or the Supreme Court. Each certificate designating a court term specifies the type, location, and date of the term, as well as the name of the judge assigned to the term.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of State
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Certificates of election
Series Number
- L0232
Summary
- The Committee was responsible for canvassing and estimating the votes for governor, lieutenant governor, and senators. These certificates of election were filed with the Senate for the years 1790, 1796, and 1798. Each signed certificate authenticates committee canvassing and estimation of ballots and declares individuals as elected office holders.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Regulating Elections
Access Restrictions
- Restricted: Material is fragile;Use under supervision of an archivist.
Title
- Copies of certificates confirming title to state lands
Series Number
- B1625
Summary
- This series consists of original certificates issued by the State Tax Commission confirming the state's ownership of lands purchased at the 1926 tax-sale. Each certificate declares that proper notice has been served and that moneys required to redeem the land has not been paid to the State Tax Commission. Information on the verso of each certificate includes county; date; and book of deeds number and page in which the county clerk recorded the certificate of notice.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- County clerks' certificates of searches for New York and Erie Railroad Company records
Series Number
- A0913
Summary
- This series consists of reports of county clerk searches made for records of contracts made by, mortgages and conveyances given by, and judgments against the New York and Erie Railroad Company. Also included is a form requesting the clerk of a county Supreme Court to search for records of judgment against the company. Information includes county; date; records found, if any; and the clerk's certification.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Certificates of exemption from quit rents
Series Number
- A1211
Summary
- This series consists of certificates stating that residents were obliged to leave their farms in order to participate in the late war between the United States and Great Britain. Information includes name and signature of the judge issuing the certificate, the name of the farmer and the location of the farm.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- County district administration and supervision files
Series Number
- B0482
Summary
- "County files" were created by the assistant commissioner responsible for supervising district superintendents of schools and boards of cooperative educational services (BOCES). Files for district superintendents contain correspondence and memoranda concerning school district organization plans and proposals and building aid requested by schools recommended for reorganization. Information is available on school programs, facilities, local support for, and opposition to reorganization. Files for BOCES contain correspondence and reports concerning BOCES facilities and operations.
Creator
- New York (State). Education Department. Assistant Commissioner for District Organization and District Superintendents
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Certificates of employee salaries
Series Number
- A0959
Summary
- This series consists of certificates or letters from various state offices submitted to the State Comptroller; documents certify or state that named individuals were hired at a particular salary.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Certificates of searches of judgment dockets and mortgage records
Series Number
- A0971
Summary
- This series consists of certificates listing judgments or mortgages in force against individuals, with affidavit of clerk of court, submitted to the Comptroller. A state law required the Comptroller to obtain certificates from the mortgagors that the mortgaged premises were free of all other encumbrances. The series is fragmentary.
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
- 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
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Surrogates' certificates of wills and executors
Series Number
- B1618
Summary
- This series consists of certificates made by officers of county surrogate's courts certifying the validity and correctness of wills and the conferring of letters testamentary (or letters of administration) granting the powers of executor. Submission of these certificates was apparently required by the State Comptroller's office before deeds could be issued to certain parties, pertinent to inheritance of property on which unpaid taxes were owed. Only certificates for surnames beginning in the letter range P-Z are present.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York State Department of State Bureau of Miscellaneous Records oaths of office of members of the Electoral College
Series Number
- 13251
Summary
- By law, all public officers must take and file an oath of office before being entitled to enter upon the discharge of any official duties. Oaths are filed with the Secretary of State's office. Included in this series are oaths for New York's members of the Electoral College, who convene in Albany every four years following general elections to cast ballots for president and vice president as stipulated in the U.S. Constitution.
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.