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Title

State Paleontologist's journal

Series Number

A3158

Summary

This series consists of a journal kept by the State Paleontologist, John M. Clarke. Entries are sporadic and vary in length and detail. They contain information on field trips planned or taken by Clarke, projects (including publications) under way in the paleontology office of the Museum, the settlement of James Hall's estate, and efforts to secure appropriations.

Creator

• New York State Museum of Natural History

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Division of Human Rights executive subject and correspondence files

Series Number

19280

Summary

The Division of Human Rights is empowered to prevent and eliminate practices of discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, or physical disability. These records, which include correspondence, inter-agency memorandums, reports, meeting minutes, and policy material, reflect division activities. Records may be restricted.

Creator

• New York (State). State Division of Human Rights

Access Restrictions

Restricted in part. Series contains copies of documents relating to discrimination cases. Disclosable documents among these include the initial complaint and the final determination. Other documents will be disclosed as permitted by the New York State Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6).

Title

Journal of patents for lands in the Military Bounty Land District in Illinois issued to War of 1812 veterans and list of Revolutionary War claims

Series Number

A4151

Summary

This volume records the names of War of 1812 veterans (H-Z only) from New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia who received federal bounty land grants in Illinois for their military service. It also contains a list of claims filed in response to the Revolution Claims Act of February 3, 1853 (U.S. 10 Stat. 154) for eight New York counties.

Creator

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

Access Restrictions

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

Title

List of newspapers designated to publish concurrent resolutions of the Legislature of 1861

Series Number

A1029

Summary

This series consists of a list giving name of county and newspaper and place of publication; dates in margin presumably refer to date of publication.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Willard Asylum for the Insane record of commitments

Series Number

B1465

Summary

This series consists of transcripts of orders of admission and medical certificates (commitment papers) for patients admitted to Willard State Hospital. Records include patient's name; date admitted; and residence. Medical certificates include physician's observations and opinions concerning patient's behavior, mental condition, and cause of insanity.

Creator

• Willard Asylum for the Insane

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.

Title

Accounts of prison factory work

Series Number

A0860

Summary

This series consists of weekly accounts from the Comptroller's Office of items produced and value in the State Prison Factory (Newgate Prison, New York City), by nailers, carpenters, coopers, tailors, a paper ruler, weavers, a furrier, shoemakers, and women seamstresses.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Willard State Hospital medical records

Series Number

19069

Summary

This series consists of patient medical records from Willard State Hospital and from the Sampson State School facility. Information for each record includes patient name; admission and discharge dates; gender; age; civil condition; nativity; occupation; cause and form of insanity and if inherited; cause of death; education; and name and address of next of kin. Photographs of the patients are sometimes present as are notes on the patient's condition; activities; transfers; and autopsy reports. Records are restricted.

Creator

• Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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 of Mental Health.

Title

Upland transaction files

Series Number

B1303

Creator

• New York (State). Office of General Services. Division of Land Utilization

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Commission for Investigation of Workmen's Compensation Law Administration indexed abstracts of witness statements

Series Number

B1317

Summary

This series is comprised of 5" x 8" cards serving as an index to and synopsis of witness testimony, apparently given at private hearings. The cards provide name of subject (person about whom testimony was given); home and business address; occupation; name of witness (if other than the subject); brief summary of witness's statements regarding the subject; and file number (apparently citing a no longer extant series of files of witness statements).

Creator

• New York (State). Commission for Investigation of Workmen's Compensation Law Administration

Access Restrictions

All investigative materials in Moreland Act commission records are indefinitely restricted pursuant to Executive Law sect. 6 and 63.8 and Civil Rights Law sect. 73.8. Requests for access to such materials are referred to the Governor's Office.

Closed hearing materials: Restricted; Executive Law, Section 63.8.

Title

Registers of commissions of notaries public

Series Number

B0009

Summary

This series consists of bound volumes which record governors' appointments of notaries public. The registers provide the notary public's name, date of commission, expiration of term, and in whose place the individual was appointed. New York City appointments are covered in separate volumes.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Office of Adult Career and Continuing Education Services archived websites

Series Number

B2178

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible websites of the Office of Adult Career and Continuing Education Services, which was created in 2010, and one of its predecessor entities, the Office of Vocational and Educational Services for People with Disabilities (VESID).

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Office of Adult Career and Continuing Education Services

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Willard State Hospital ward inventory

Series Number

B1471

Summary

This series consists of inventories of equipment on wards at Willard State Hospital. Items inventoried include office furniture and equipment; recreational, janitorial, and medical equipment; and hospital furniture, apparatus, and equipment. Each item notes quantity, condition, and number requested in the next budget period. Also included for each ward is a brief census of patients, with numbers of male and female patients. Patients are listed as tidy, untidy, and destructive. Numbers of patients are provided in three categories: bedridden, ambulatory, and wheelchair-bound.

Creator

• Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Register of auctioneers

Series Number

A0874

Summary

This series consists of registers listing auctioneers who posted bond and returned taxes to the State Comptroller. State law required auctioneers to file every three months "a just and true account" of all wares and goods sold at public auction so that the treasurer could determine what duties should be levied. The auctioneers are listed by county with each entry recording name, residence (city or town), date of execution of bond, and the dates of receipts of the quarterly returns.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Office of the Medicaid Inspector General archived websites

Series Number

B2150

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible websites of the New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of the Medicaid Inspector General

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Special reports to the Executive Committee

Series Number

A2093

Summary

These volumes contain correspondence and related items submitted by the Superintendent to the Executive Committee. The documents were reviewed at the Committee's weekly meetings and formed the basis for many actions and decisions. Topics include employee salaries and salary classification issues; legislation, progress of construction, repair, or maintenance work; estimates and summaries of expenditures; hiring, firing, and resignation of employees; and special disciplinary cases (e.g. inmate assaults on employees).

Creator

• New York House of Refuge

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Commission of Highways Bureau of Maintenance and Repairs correspondence and reports

Series Number

B0747

Summary

This series contains a variety of highway repair and maintenance records created or compiled by Cortland County Assistant Engineer Raymond "Ray" Mott. Mott reported to State Commission of Highways, Sixth Division Engineer William Acheson. The series includes inventories; repair cost estimates; labor, material, and supplies requisitions; highway condition reports; injury and accident reports; correspondence; and traffic censuses.

Creator

• New York (State). Commission of Highways. Bureau of Maintenance and Repairs

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Wiilard State Hospital patient indexes

Series Number

B1459

Summary

This series consists of patient indexes created by staff of Willard Asylum for the Insane (later Willard State Hospital). Series consists of separate county and patient indexes. For some patients, the volume and page number given in the indexes refer to other series of patient case files; in other cases, the reference of the citations is unknown. Dates for the indexes overlap as information was carried over from earlier to later volumes.

Creator

• Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.

Title

List of county and state officers elected

Series Number

B0021

Summary

This series contains lists of civil officers elected in each county between 1827 and 1853 and of certain state officers elected between 1847 and 1855. Under each county are listed the names and dates of election of elected County Clerks, Sheriffs, Coroners, Justice of the Peace (1827-1829 only), county judges, Surrogate Court judges, district attorneys, coroners, justices for courts of sessions, superintendent of the poor, county treasurer and occasionally other locally elected officials.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Volunteers fingerprint identification correspondence files

Series Number

A4384

Summary

This series contains materials relating to the procedures and operation of the fingerprint identification program. Because civil defense was considered a national security issue, civil defense volunteers were required to be fingerprinted. The Office of Civilian Protection screened for criminals, and fingerprint identification was conducted by the New York State Department of Correction's Division of Identification. The series includes correspondence, monthly reports, and memoranda.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Office of Civilian Protection

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Supreme Court of Judicature writs of certiorari

Series Number

J0147

Summary

A writ of certiorari was obtained by a defendant to remove a case from a lower court into the Supreme Court of Judicature for trial and judgement, or for review after judgment in the lower court. These records include affidavits by which writs of certiorari were applied for; writs, which were Supreme Court orders to lower court judges to return a copy of the pleadings and proceedings in a case to the Supreme Court; and records of pleadings and proceedings.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature

Access Restrictions

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