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Title

Record of hourly wages of workers

Series Number

A3180

Summary

This series consists of an unbound volume recording names and hourly wages of employees hired for construction of the new State Capitol building. Employees are divided into two categories: casting derricks, and laborers. Only two wage rates are indicated.

Creator

• New York (State). New Capitol Commission

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

New York State Historical Records Survey biweekly payroll

Series Number

A4185

Summary

This series consists of payroll sheets for administrative, field, and support staff of the Historical Records Survey. Each payroll covers a two week period, and each page indicates whether the employees listed were "certified" (drawn from relief rolls) or "non-certified" (non-relief). Records list employee name; address; title; sex; WPA identification number; employment classification (supervisory, professional, skilled, intermediate, unskilled); number of hours worked; wage rate; and amount paid.

Creator

• Historical Records Survey (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Temporary Emergency Relief Administration projects payroll records

Series Number

A2047

Summary

This series consist of payroll records from Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA) projects in upstate New York as well as from the Emergency Nursery School Project and part-time Education Department clerical staff hired on TERA funds to work in Albany. The records include weekly payroll sheets with employee's name; sex; occupation; hours worked; wage rate; total earnings; and (occasionally) case number. Attached to payroll sheets are employee's time sheets, signed by the local supervisor certifying the time claimed.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Vocational and Extension Education

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Employee payroll records

Series Number

B1466

Summary

This series consists of payroll records for employees of Willard Asylum for the Insane (later Willard State Hospital). Payroll for each month includes employee name; service (position); rate per month; time worked; and amount due. Total amounts are given for each month. Records of overtime worked and employee time reports are included for the twentieth century portion of the series.

Creator

• Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Registers of distribution of expenses to engineers employed on the Western Division of the Barge Canal

Series Number

B0694

Summary

This series consists of two volumes of registers documenting the distribution of expenses to engineers employed on the Western Division of the Barge Canal. Funds were disbursed monthly and the registers include the name of each engineer, the total amount each engineer was paid, the date that the check was written, check number, and comments (certain checks only).

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this 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

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.

Title

Ledger of salaries and expenses for state agencies

Series Number

A1279

Summary

This series consists of carbon copy forms regarding salaries. Information includes salary; time period covered; annual salary; retirement registration number; relevant law and chapter; title of position; rate of contribution; contribution amount; amount paid employee; and check number. In addition, for the Department of the State Engineer and Surveyor there are printed forms of schedule of accounts of the Canal Fund. These list appropriation; chapter and laws; claimant; voucher number and amount; requisition number and amount; and check number.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Employee time books

Series Number

B2382

Summary

This series documents employee time worked and pay rate at the Rome State Custodial Asylum, Rome State School, and Rome Developmental Center. Information includes employee's name, dates worked, pay rate, days and hours worked, and amount paid for period. Information for some patients who served as "de facto" employees at the School is also present.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Access Restrictions

Because these time books may include entries for patients informally serving as employees, these records are restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.

Title

New York House of Refuge payroll register

Series Number

A3188

Summary

This series, apparently an employee payroll register, bears no identification and was recorded in a volume previously used to record hospital admissions. Information includes date; employee name; amount paid and position (sometimes).

Creator

• New York House of Refuge

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

New York State Industrial School financial records of the institution

Series Number

A3129

Summary

This series consists of payment records made by the State Industrial School to employees and to businesses or individuals who supplied goods or services. Records include pay roll information including name and position; invoices listing items or services purchased; and abstracts of accounts for the preceding month which contains to whom paid or purpose (e.g. pay roll; company name) and for what paid (e.g. salaries; coal; meat).

Creator

• New York (State). State Industrial School

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Dunkirk records

Series Number

A4477

Creator

• Dunkirk (N.Y. : City)

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There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Abstracts of expenditures for Barge Canal maintenance

Series Number

B1380

Summary

This series documents expenditures made by the superintendent for routine maintenance of the Barge Canal. It consists of abstracts of expenditures created by the Superintendent of Public Works for the State Comptroller's Office.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Payroll for workers employed in building State Hall

Series Number

A1295

Summary

This series contains volumes listing job category (carpenter, laborer, stone cutter, etc.); names of individuals performing job; number of days worked for a specific period; and wages per day and amount paid to workers building 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

State Engineer and Surveyor administrative subject files

Series Number

B0247

Summary

These files document the duties and functions of the State Engineer and Surveyor. Topics covered include personnel matters; supply inventories, equipment purchases; Barge Canal construction and maintenance projects; joint topographical survey of the state with the U.S. Geological Survey; state and local boundary line surveys; land appropriations; easements; "blue line" surveys; abandonment and sale of canal lands; operation and navigation of the Barge Canal, canal alternations; and damage claims filed against the state.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

State Engineer and Surveyor payrolls for employees in military service

Series Number

A3260

Summary

This series documents payment to State Engineer and Surveyor employees for the differential between their military pay and their state salaries, and mostly consists of monthly payrolls providing: name; state title; military rank; monthly state salary; monthly military pay; amount due from state; and governor's approval number. These payments were made pursuant to a law stipulating that state employees would not lose any of their employment privileges due to absence in military service during World War I.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Payroll ledgers of the State Legislature

Series Number

A1305

Summary

This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of accounts of pay to members of the Assembly and Senate. Each account gives legislator's name and county of residence, warrant number and amount on debit side and days of attendance and mileage on credit side. Also included are ledgers providing the names, titles, pay rates, mileage reimbursement, and disbursement dates for members of the State Assembly and Senate and their staffs.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Transcript of payroll for Company A of the 70th regiment of New York State Volunteers

Series Number

B2694

Summary

This series consists of a company muster roll and payroll. Muster roll portion gives company and regimental commanding officers, a listing of names and ranks of individuals present and absent, notes of where and by whom individuals were enrolled in service, some individual details as to whereabouts and conditions (such as wounded), reasons for absences, and notes of those assigned to other units. Payroll portion lists last pay amounts due, amounts withheld, and balances.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Abstracts of expenditures for Barge Canal projects authorized by acts of the legislature

Series Number

B1381

Summary

This series documents expenditures for special Barge Canal projects authorized by acts of the legislature. The front of each abstract provides printed heading and typed information concerning the law and chapter that authorized the project, voucher number, to whom paid, for what service or material supplied, amount, warrant number, and file number. The back records file number, abstract number, division section number, date, amount, brief description of services or materials, law and chapter number, and county.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Register of running totals of payments to workers

Series Number

A3182

Summary

This series consists of lists of running totals of payments made to employees engaged in the construction of the new State Capitol building. Information includes the entry number, surname, and amount paid.

Creator

• New York (State). New Capitol Commission

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.