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Title

Warrants for payment

Series Number

A0863

Summary

The Office of Comptroller was established to settle accounts of the state and to keep records of all state funds, accounts, and expenses. This series contains listings of payments of state funds, indicating to whom paid; reason for payment; amount; and totals.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Warrants for payments to government officials and legislators

Series Number

A0831

Summary

The warrants for payment in this series generally include: payee's name; office held or reason for payment; sum to be paid; date; name of treasurer and comptroller; and a certificate of the payee's account, signed by the President of the Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, or Comptroller.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Records concerning the raising of troops and payment of bounties to volunteers

Series Number

A1253

Summary

This series consists of military board resolutions, correspondence, memorandums, payment totals for the militia, bounty payment tables, vouchers, and warrants pertaining to the raising, equipping, and paying of New York State's Militia during the Civil War. Records deal mainly with payment of bounties for troops raised and contain summary data of sums requested and received.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Payment authorization to treasurer

Series Number

A0839

Summary

These records, from the Comptroller's Office consist of warrants to pay salary of the Attorney General.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Warrants of survey, powers of attorney, Indian deeds, and other records

Series Number

A1885

Summary

This series contains mostly warrants of survey but includes also a few unrelated legal documents. Colonial governors ordered surveys of all lands for which settlers applied for purchase. The warrants are the governor's orders to the surveyor general to carry out the survey. They provide name of governor; name of surveyor general; for whom land is to be surveyed; acreage and location of land; and date of warrant. The records suffered some burn damage in the 1911 State Capitol fire.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Governor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Bills, receipts, and warrants for the proposed state prison at Albany

Series Number

A0873

Summary

A proposed State Prison at Albany was authorized to be built under Chapter 30 of the Laws of 1796. A Board of Commissioners was appointed, which was authorized to purchase a lot not exceeding four acres, and a number of the records concern the controversy over the purchase of that land. It was also authorized to submit warrants for the cost of building the state prison to the Treasurer, and these warrants were passed on by the Comptroller.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Treasury warrants

Series Number

A1887

Summary

This series consists of warrants issued by the governor authorizing the treasury to pay specified sums to persons who provided goods or services to New York. The warrants are for routine expenditures such as salaries for government officials and employees, travel expenses, or reimbursement for money or supplies provided to the government to help fortify the colony. The warrants contain the governor's name; sum and name of person to be paid; purpose of the payment; date; and treasurer's name.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Governor

Access Restrictions

Access to original records is restricted due to burn damage sustained in the 1911 New York State Capitol building fire.

Title

Governor extradition case files

Series Number

B1416

Summary

This series consists of extradition case files for criminals in New York State for whom extradition has been requested by other states. Case files typically include original typed copy of extradition case control card; correspondence to extradition secretary from district attorneys; New York governor's warrant and authorization to return fugitive to requesting state; certificate that the requisition is honored and warrant issued; correspondence from extradition secretary of requesting state to New York governor; requisition and agent's authorization of requesting governor.

Access Restrictions

Restricted: Portions of the files are restricted under provisions of the Public Officers Law Art. 6 (Freedom of Information Law).

Title

Warrants to prepare letters patent

Series Number

A1884

Summary

The governor issued these warrants directing the attorney general to prepare letters patent. These patents transferred title to land from the colonial government to private owners whose application to purchase land had been approved following a survey. Each warrant contains governor's name; attorney general's name; size and boundaries of the land to be patented; and date of the warrant. These records sustained moderate to severe burn damage in the 1911 State Capitol fire.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Governor

Access Restrictions

Access to original records is restricted due to burn damage sustained in the 1911 New York State Capitol building fire.

Title

Warrants to sheriff of Ulster County to levy arrears of taxes

Series Number

A0969

Summary

This series consists of copies of warrants issued by the Ulster County Treasurer, commanding the sheriff to levy arrears of taxes on lands and chattels of collectors of taxes in the various precincts of the county, and to imprison them unless the taxes were paid. Each warrant gives the sum of taxes due from the collector. There is also a letter of transmittal from Christopher Tappen, County Treasurer, to the State Treasurer.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Applications for land grants

Series Number

A0272

Summary

The series consists of applications for grants of unappropriated land by letters patent from New York Colony and State. Along with the applications are related reports, surveys, maps, warrants for surveying lands and drafting of letters patent, objections to title, and letters.

Creator

• New York (State). Secretary of State

Access Restrictions

A0272-19: Map is fragile and should be handled under the supervision of an archivist.

Title

Payment authorization to treasurer for support and maintenance of children born to slaves in the Town of Mamaroneck

Series Number

B1718

Summary

Abandoned children of slaves were to be supported at the state's expense by the local overseers of the poor. This series consists of a warrant to pay the Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Mamaroneck for the support and maintenance of children born of slaves and abandoned by their respective masters, as well as a signed statement that the money was received by the overseer.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Warrants issued

Series Number

A1236

Summary

This series consists of warrants issued by the Comptroller's Office for the payment of mandated State expenses. Later warrants request loans to equip and provide for the State Militia.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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