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Displaying 95 Finding Aids
Title
- Ledger of duties paid by auctioneers
Series Number
- A1304
Summary
- This series consists of accounts of the State Comptroller with auctioneers for payment of duty and tax. Each account gives name of auctioneer and county of residence, duty and tax due entered on debit side, and payments on credit side.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Current accounts ledger
Series Number
- A4255
Summary
- This series consists of a ledger of "current" accounts of the State Fire Marshal's employees, generally inspectors or deputies. Expenses are recorded either by date services were performed or the date travel was undertaken.
Creator
- New York (State). Fire Marshal
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's ledger of accounts with county agricultural societies
Series Number
- A1298
Summary
- State appropriations for county agricultural societies were authorized by L. 1841, Ch. 169; L. 1845, Ch. 169; L. 1845, Ch. 60; and L. 1848, Ch. 299. This series contains ledgers of accounts kept by the Comptroller's office for state aid to agricultural societies; and reports submitted to the Comptroller by treasurers of county agricultural societies.
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 Public Works Office of the Superintendent Western Division engineers' ledgers regarding division personnel
Series Number
- B0737
Summary
- This series consists of 2 accounting ledgers used by the Western Division Engineer's Office to record payroll transactions. The heading of each ledger page lists employee name, job title, salary or hourly wage, and any special terms relating to payments. Most payroll entries are credited to personal service or management and operations. The majority of employees are listed as civil engineers or engineering aids, but additional titles included equipment operator, mechanical helper, laborer, and stenographer.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Public Works. Office of the Superintendent
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Post-War Reconstruction Fund and Capital Construction Fund appropriation control ledgers
Series Number
- B1410
Summary
- This series consists of pre-printed ledger forms used to track appropriations funded and expended through the Post-War Reconstruction Fund and the Capital Construction Fund by the Division of the Budget. The records reflect the wide-ranging scope of projects undertaken by various state departments or facilities for public works. Each form includes name of department, division or institution; amount appropriated; brief description of project; and associated fiscal activities. Facilities include colleges and universities, correctional facilities, and mental health institutions.
Creator
- New York (State). Division of the Budget
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- General ledgers
Series Number
- B1835
Summary
- This series, coupled with Series B1740, Daybooks, documents operating expenses for the House of Refuge. Accounts, organized by expense account, include provisions, utilities, clothing, furniture, payroll, building and repairs, school, hospital, expenses of managers, and traveling expenses. Vendor accounts are also included. Entries include date and amount of expense. Early volumes contain annual recapitulations.
Creator
- New York House of Refuge
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Department of Audit and Control exhibit material used by the Office of the State Comptroller
Series Number
- B1809
Summary
- This series documents the State Comptroller's role in administering accounts of the state, paying bills and payrolls, and auditing records, accounts, and financial and management practices of state agencies. The Office of the State Comptroller used this material in exhibitions to highlight key agency functions. Records include indentures; contracts; published reports and pamphlets analyzing audit functions and interpreting cases and contracts; examples of contracts and vouchers; and accounts and appropriation ledgers from the Department of Public Works and the Prison Department.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Audit and Control
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Ledger of the repayment of the loan of 1792
Series Number
- A1074
Summary
- This series consists of a ledger from the office of the Comptroller continuing entries relating to the repayment of the loan of 1792. Entries are arranged by debtor and list payments of principal and interest. Accounts are listed in pounds until about 1815 when they are entered in American currency.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledger of monthly and cumulative statistics on the prison population
Series Number
- B0135
Summary
- This series consists of statistical profiles of incarcerated individuals at the New York State Reformatory. Category statistics include type of offense; length of maximum and definite sentence; occupation; personal and physical characteristics; educational level; mental level; religion; color; ethnicity; past criminal and institutional history; and level of drunkenness. Other statistics relate to number of incarcerated individuals discharged; paroled; returned for parole violations; pardoned; escaped; transferred to other institutions or died while in prison.
Creator
- New York State Reformatory (Elmira, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted to protect personal privacy. Access may be permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the State Archives.
Title
- Ledgers for state stock
Series Number
- A1465
Summary
- This series consists of two volumes, one containing accounts of principal, the other of interest, for the issue of state stock totaling $1,600,000. Each page contains names of stockholders and entries of debits and credits for principal or interest. There is a separate paperbound index to names of stockholders.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Comptroller's Office ledger 'K'
Series Number
- A1317
Summary
- This series consists of a general ledger, containing accounts of receipts and disbursements for virtually every state office, department, commission, institution, fund, and activity. Receipts are usually given summarily as from a general or special fund, but there is often columnar breakdown of different categories of expenditures.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Expenditure analysis ledger
Series Number
- A4247
Summary
- The register tracks expenditures of the New York State Fire Marshall including office expenses, fees, travel expenses, official salaries, graded employees, and Inspection Bureau official salaries and graded employees. Each division of expenditures is further broken down into debits, credits, and balances.
Creator
- New York (State). Fire Marshal
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledger of State Treasurer
Series Number
- A1263
Summary
- This series contains a ledger of the New York State Treasurer detailing the drafts issued by the Treasurer's Office. Information includes the balance of the treasury for each day; the amount of money devoted to certain fixed categories (taxes, school fund, vendue duty, charges); the date a specific draft was issued; the warrant number; for what or to whom the draft was issued, upon which bank it was drawn; the check number, and the amount.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Accounts ledger
Series Number
- A2024
Summary
- This series contains ledger books of various accounts of the Board of Regents divided into categories such as General, Regents Office, State Library, State Museum, Academies, and Boundaries. Expenses include those for academic and professional exams, staff salaries, purchase of books, work on manuscripts, entomologist and botanist, paleontology, Literature Fund, and teachers' classes.
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
- County commissioner's ledgers of mortgage loans of the U.S. Deposit Fund
Series Number
- A1281
Summary
- The U.S. Deposit Fund made surplus monies, distributed to the states from the U.S. Treasury, available for loans for improved real estate. Ledgers were delivered to the Comptroller when the Commissioners of the U.S. Deposit Fund were abolished in 1911. This series consists of accounts of mortgage loan from the U.S. Deposit Fund, kept by County Commissioners of the Fund. Each account includes name of mortgagor, mortgage number, interest and principal due and paid with dates and amounts. Some receipts are attached.
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
- General ledger
Series Number
- B1236
Summary
- This series consists of Auburn Prison's general ledger which functioned as the principal record of final entry for all Auburn's financial transactions. The volume is arranged by accounts according to funds or vendor. The debit entries list date of transaction, description of transaction, and amount of transaction. The credit entries list date, amount, and the method of payment. The front of the volume contains an index to each account.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Travel expense accounts ledger
Series Number
- A4259
Summary
- This series consists of travel expense accounts for State Fire Marshal inspectors. Information includes expenses for meals, lodging, telegrams, telephone calls, and/or transportation fares. Includes an alphabetic name index.
Creator
- New York (State). Fire Marshal
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Comptroller's subordinate ledgers
Series Number
- A1309
Summary
- This series consists of Comptroller's account ledgers with county loan officers and individuals related to loans, with auctioneers for duties, and for stock shares. The second ledger also includes information on New Military Tract lots (location, lot number, acreage, purchaser); accounts of persons who provided services to the state including Hartford Convention delegates, supporters of aged or sick slaves, surveyor Benjamin Ellicott; and Indian agents and commissioners; certificates of receipt of arrears of quit rents; and accounts with various colleges.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Ledgers pertaining to bounties authorized by Chapter 184, Laws of 1863
Series Number
- A4139
Summary
- Three oversized volumes record bounty payments disbursed by the Paymaster General's Office between 1863 and 1866 as authorized by legislation of 1863. Soldiers were paid different bounties according to the length of time they had served in regiments.
Creator
- New York (State). Paymaster General's Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Auburn Prison cash accounts ledger
Series Number
- B1237
Summary
- This series consists of a ledger of credits and debits pertaining to cash accounts for incarcerated individuals. For each listing, the ledger records date, type of transaction, and amount of credit deposited or debit charged.
Creator
- Auburn Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.