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Title

Accounts of salaries, office and general expenses

Series Number

B0984

Summary

The State Tax Commission was responsible for formulation of tax policy. This series consists of entries for payments of salaries and expenses of members and employees of the State Tax Commission from its president to stenographers.

Creator

• New York (State). State Tax Commission

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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.)

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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

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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.)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Title

Dunkirk records

Series Number

A4477

Creator

• Dunkirk (N.Y. : City)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Title

Financial records on construction and maintenance of Sing Sing ("Mount Pleasant") Prison

Series Number

A1152

Summary

The series consists of abstracts and vouchers submitted to the Comptroller's Office from the commissioners appointed to build a prison in the Town of Mount Pleasant and similar documents for operation of the prison after it was built. Also included are payrolls of prison employees and inventories of prison property.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Entry documentation for state asylums

Series Number

A1226

Summary

This series from the Comptroller's Office consists of payrolls, correspondence, bills, receipts, contracts, abstracts of vouchers, and one resolution for various New York State asylums including: New York State Asylum for Idiots, New York Lunatic Asylum, Binghamton Asylum for the Insane, New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, New York State Inebriate Asylum, New York State Soldiers and Sailors Home, New York State Institution for the Blind, and the Long Island State Hospital.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

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Title

Employee payroll records

Series Number

B1483

Summary

This series consists of payroll records for employees of the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital). Information for each month includes employee name; position; rate per month; time worked; expenses or any additional payment and amount due. Employees leaving the payroll are noted. Total numbers are given for each month.

Creator

• New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum

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Title

Monthly payroll books

Series Number

B1667

Summary

This series consists of monthly payrolls "of attendants and servants" at the New York State Asylum for Idiots (1876-1890) and the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children (1891-1911). Occupations of those listed include cook, baker, seamstress, table girl, nurse, attendant, gardener, hall girl, farmer, engineer, man, gymnast, and carpenter, among others. Payroll format changes slightly over time.

Creator

• Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children

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Title

Volunteer relief payroll of the Joint Volunteer Relief Committee of Albany

Series Number

A4144

Summary

This series consists of two folio-sized volumes containing records of relief payments made by the Joint Volunteer Relief Committee of Albany, otherwise known as the Military Relief Committee, a charitable organization which provided monetary assistance to needy families of men from Albany who had volunteered for service during the Civil War.

Creator

• New York (State). Bureau of Military Statistics

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Title

Pressbook copy of payroll

Series Number

A3171

Summary

This series consists of press copies of bi-weekly payrolls for workers employed on the new State Capitol building construction project. Each entry in the payroll contains a worker's name, an identification number, wages paid, and the worker's signature. At the end of each two-week period is a recapitulation listing the total amount of wages for each page and the total for the two-week period.

Creator

• New York (State). New Capitol Commission

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Title

War of 1812 abstracts of payrolls for New York State Militia ("payroll cards")

Series Number

B0810

Summary

This series consists of payroll cards for soldiers of the New York militia who served in the War of 1812. Each card lists: name; rank; "organization" in which the soldier served, including the specific company name; amount paid; dates paid; and "remarks," which generally provides the payroll and/or voucher number that corresponds to the soldier and other information on his military service.

Creator

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

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