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Displaying 6074 Finding Aids
Title
- Log of actions relating to incarcerated individuals scheduled for execution
Series Number
- B1244
Summary
- This series consists of volumes used to track events relating to incarcerated individuals scheduled for execution at Sing Sing. Logs contain the person's name and consecutive number; county of sentencing and date received; name and address of family; spiritual advisor and attorney; dates of receipt, appeal, respite, or commutation; and execution date and time. Also included are documents entitled "Statistics Relative to Sentences for Murder in the First Degree," listing individuals executed, transferred, discharged by reversal of judgment or whose sentences were commuted.
Creator
- Sing Sing Prison
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Legal documentation relating to Comptroller's sales of land for taxes
Series Number
- A1387
Summary
- Land was sold when taxes were unpaid for two years. If the owner paid the taxes within one year after the land was sold for taxes, it reverted to that person's ownership. This series consists of documents relating to sale and redemption of land on which taxes were owed, mostly in the Forest Preserve. Documents include tax searches, tax sale deeds, lists of lands on which taxes were unpaid or sold for unpaid taxes, affidavits, opinions, and legal briefs.
Creator
- New York (State). Comptroller's Office. Land Tax Bureau
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- New York City proposed salary amendments
Series Number
- B1522
Summary
- This series consists of reports to the Board of Regents from the New York City Board of Education recommending amendment of its by-laws with reference to salaries of: principals of parental schools, teachers, substitutes of industrial subjects in trade schools for girls, principals of junior high schools, and schools for the deaf and crippled. Also included is one printed copy of minutes of a special meeting of the board.
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
- Livingston County board of supervisors meeting minutes and proceedings
Series Number
- A4599
Summary
- This series consists of microfilm copies of minutes and other documentation of meetings of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors.
Creator
- Livingston (N.Y. : County)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Dispensation records and press releases
Series Number
- B1536
Summary
- The series consists primarily of records pertaining to the War Council's notification of determination and recommendations for renewal of dispensation orders to hire minors during wartime. Also included are letters sent to the War Council and a significant number of press releases, primarily from the governor, pertaining to rationing and conservation; civilian defense; emergency planning; physical fitness; farm labor; use of vehicles and speed limits; promotion of the war abroad; and planning for selective service.
Creator
- New York State War Council
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Final progress report
Series Number
- B0628
Summary
- This series consists of an original signed copy of the final report of the Temporary State Commission on Estates. Report addresses staff, enabling legislation, procedures, legislative recommendations, and concluding work. Included are 14 appendices, each one pertaining to a commission recommendation.
Creator
- New York (State). Temporary State Commission on the Modernization, Revision, and Simplification of the Law of Estates
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Daily log of morning clinic, hospital, and tuberculosis treatments
Series Number
- B1250
Summary
- This series consists of daily information on inmates receiving medical treatment at Clinton Prison. In addition to regular medical needs, Clinton served as the facility for all inmates suffering from tuberculosis. Information includes descriptions of the general inmate population; number of inmates applying for treatment, treated and not treated; number of men excused; number of days lost; and information about the tuberculosis population (number admitted, and names and number discharged) and hospital (number admitted, and names and number discharged).
Creator
- Clinton Prison (Dannemora, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Writs of capias ad respondendum
Series Number
- J0028
Summary
- This series consists of writs of capias ad respondendum (cap. ad resp.), which were orders to a sheriff to arrest and take into custody a defendant for appearance in court to answer the plaintiff's declaration. The writ states the name of defendant, the court term when he was required to appear, the name of the plaintiff, the type of action, and the names of the justice, clerk, and plaintiff's attorney.
Creator
- New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Budget request files
Series Number
- B2759
Summary
- This series contains files detailing financial and narrative information conveyed to the Division of the Budget for the purpose of documenting projected service plans, income sources, expenses, and financial needs for activities carried out by the agency. Information provides details as to the sources of funds; statistical data; appropriations from various state, federal, and private sources; requests for changes; fund types; consulting service contract expenses; and other financial and accounting information.
Creator
- New York (State). Office for the Aging
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- South Mall project site acquisition and clearance files
Series Number
- 16209
Summary
- This series contains correspondence, memorandums, weekly inspection reports, contract specifications, and engineering drawings and plans related to the South Mall (Empire State Plaza) project site. The records document the interaction of the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, Department of Public Works, and Office of General Services in acquiring land and property for the South Mall site, and in overseeing the demolition of buildings at the site.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of General Services. Office of South Mall Construction
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Statements of taxes assessed on lands of Allegany State Park
Series Number
- A1378
Summary
- This series consists of statements of taxes giving parcel location, acreage, assessed valuation, and amount of tax due. There are also transcripts of parts of town assessment rolls and related correspondence of the Comptroller's Office.
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
- New York State Banking Department financial records
Series Number
- A0700
Summary
- The series includes a wide variety of records relating to bank administration, operations, and accounting. The records document the state's activist supervision of banks under the Safety Fund Act, passed in the aftermath of the Panic of 1837.
Creator
- New York (State). Banking Department
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Accounts of land grants
Series Number
- A3209
Summary
- This series consists of accounts of land grants in the counties of Cumberland, Tryon, Charlotte, Albany, and Gloucester. Records are burned around the edges. Records must be se under supervision of an archivist.
Creator
- New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office
Access Restrictions
- Records are fragile due to burn damage. Use with the supervision of an archivist.
Title
- Assembly action logs and roll call votes
Series Number
- L0051
Summary
- This series records the activity of each Assembly committee during legislative sessions and action taken on each bill referred to it. Information for each bill includes: standing committee action (approved, killed, referred); introductory and print number; bill title; introducer; bill number companion bill in the Senate or assembly; and roll call vote.
Creator
- New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Clerk of the Assembly
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Glens Falls building permits, tax assessment rolls, and conditional sale records
Series Number
- A4566
Summary
- Microfilm includes a variety of tax and building records for the city of Glens Falls: city and county tax rolls; tax collection records; conditional sales index records; chattel mortgages index records; building permits; certificates of occupancy; building permit application index files; building plans; and plumbing and electrical permits.
Creator
- Glens Falls (N.Y. : City)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Greece (N.Y.) building permits and other records
Series Number
- A4572
Creator
- Greece (N.Y. : Town)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Interview tape recordings and transcripts regarding the 1964-1977 State Education Department doctoral program review
Series Number
- B1658
Summary
- This series consists of cassette tape recordings and typed transcripts of interviews with administrators and employees of the State Education Department, Board of Regents members, and other educators. The interviews were conducted in 1993 by Rose Mary Roy as research for her doctoral dissertation. The general subject of the interviews is the development, procedures, activities, and impact of the Education Department's doctoral program review during the period 1964-1977. Special attention is given to the role of the Board of Regents in developing and guiding the doctoral program review.
Creator
- Roy, R.P.M.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Index to unidentified Middle Division Barge Canal contracts
Series Number
- B1880
Summary
- This series consists of a card index to unidentified contract files. The index seems to refer to expenses, correspondence, maps, and field books primarily of the Middle Division. This is not a working index and is retained for internal use only.
Creator
- New York (State). Superintendent of Public Works
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Department of Civil Service Merit System Affirmative Action Office subject, correspondence and project files
Series Number
- B0546
Summary
- The Merit System Affirmative Action Office was established by the Department of Civil Service in 1977 to serve as a liaison among state and public agencies concerned with equal opportunity, to handle discrimination complaints and to monitor the affirmative action programs of all state agencies. The records in this series, created by the Office's director and her staff, include reports, policy and procedure documents, minutes, correspondence and memoranda and discrimination complaints. The records reveal the impact of State laws and public policy on ethnic minorities.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Civil Service. Merit System Affirmative Action Office
Access Restrictions
- Researchers shall not reveal names of individuals involved in complaints and grievances for 30 years after creation of records.
Title
- State Archives research room registration log books
Series Number
- B2351
Access Restrictions
- Restricted to protect personal privacy.