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Title

Forms book

Series Number

B1527

Summary

This series consists of blank forms created for recording and reporting purposes by the State Board of Charities. Form types include certificates of incorporation, authorizations to conduct pharmacies, financial reporting forms, inmate case record forms, receipts, forms for official monthly reports, inventories, institutional censuses, warrants, and letterheads. Printed record envelopes, manuals, report covers, and rules are also included.

Creator

• New York (State). State Board of Charities

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Temporary Commission on Dioxin Exposure working files

Series Number

B0639

Summary

The New York State Temporary Commission on Dioxin Exposure was created to gather information and inform the public, specifically Vietnam veterans about the hazardous effects of herbicides, particularly those containing dioxin, a chemical in Agent Orange. This series consists of subject and correspondence files, reports, press clippings, minutes of hearings and meetings, maps, and video-cassettes documenting the activities of the Commission. Topics addressed include: exposure, health related issues, awareness of use, veterans' benefits, chemical warfare, and Right to Know.

Creator

• New York (State). Temporary Commission on Dioxin Exposure

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation Chief Financial Officer and Budget/Finance Manager subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B2748

Summary

This series of subject and correspondence files contains records related to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation's (RIOC) core community development functions, including the General Developmental Plan (GDP); transportation and sanitation solutions; resident relations; and housing design and construction of RIOC.

Creator

• Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Exemplifications of wills, letters testamentary, and letters of administration

Series Number

J0039

Summary

This volume contains exemplifications, or official transcripts admissible as evidence, of wills, codicils to wills, letters testamentary granted to the executor of a will, and letters of administration granted to the administrator of an estate (in the event there was no will). A few of the wills registered by the Court of Probates were dated during or before the Revolutionary War.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Probates

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Administrative files and correspondence

Series Number

20972

Summary

The Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) was created as a means to increase resources and to fill jurisdictional gaps related to fighting organized crime in New York State. The OCTF prosecutes multi-county, multi-state, and multi-national organized criminal activities happening within New York State. This series documents decisions, policy, investigations, and operations of the Organized Crime Task Force.

Creator

• New York State Organized Crime Task Force

Access Restrictions

Series may contain restricted material. Consult with reference archivist before use.

Title

Town assessor's statements of assessed value of forest and improved lands

Series Number

A1382

Summary

This series consists of statements prepared by assessors of towns within what became the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Information includes acres of forestland, assessed value in 1883, acres of improved land, assessed value in 1883, and total acreage of town. Some statements have letters of transmittal to Comptroller attached.

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

Night watch journal

Series Number

B1241

Summary

This series consists of a journal used by prison guards to log special activities that occurred during night watches. Included is the date, location of duty, name of officer on duty, and remarks.

Creator

• Sing Sing Prison

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Newspaper notices of tax sales

Series Number

A1396

Summary

This series consists of notices published by county treasurers giving town, patent or other subdivision, lot number, description of parcel, owner's name, and amount of back taxes due. Included are notices for Oswego, Niagara, Rockland, Ulster, and Sullivan Counties, for various years. Clippings are on newsprint and are badly deteriorated.

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

Inmate admission registers

Series Number

B1255

Summary

This series consists of registers providing summary information on inmates admitted to Albion State Training School. Volumes 1-7 contain detailed information related to their personal and criminal histories and confinement at the institution. Volumes 8-10 contain one page of summary information on women received at Albion but only only up to the time of admission to Albion. Volumes 11-13 consist of three distinct alphabetical indexes to inmates, by last name and with corresponding case number.

Creator

• Albion State Training School (Albion, N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.

Title

Fairview Fire District board of Commissioners meeting minutes

Series Number

A4588

Creator

• Fairview Fire District (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Barge Canal vessel registers

Series Number

17674

Summary

The series consists of nonactive registration applications and certificates of registry for vessels operating on the Barge Canal system, as well as documentation of vessels' trips on the canal. Applications provide information on each vessel, including vessel type, dimensions, history, and owners. The certificates provide a chronology of ownership. The Division of Waterways Maintenance was responsible for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the canal system until 1992.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Division of Waterways Maintenance

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Vouchers, payment orders, and payrolls for highway maintenance and repair

Series Number

A0936

Summary

Supply vouchers and payment orders are duplicate printed forms sent to the Highway Commission Auditor in Albany, who submitted them to the Comptroller pursuant to legislation of 1909. The forms provide order number; date; name and address of supplier; amount of labor or materials (cement, tools, pipe etc.) required; signatures of Division Engineer and Deputy; and road number and location.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Monthly mineral market reports

Series Number

B1533

Summary

This series consists of U. S. Bureau of Mines' monthly reports summarizing industry surveys and market reports of minerals such as iron ore; silver; lead and zinc; coal and coke; gold; sulphur; gypsum; slate; talc; gem stones; mica; mercury; peat; salt; natural gas; sand and gravel; abrasive materials; and nonferrous scrap metal. Reports include advance and final summaries and preliminary returns of statistical and economic surveys. Information typically includes data on trends in commercial production, demand, and shipments; interstate transportation; exports; and consumption.

Creator

• New York State Geological Survey

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Log of amendments ordered to a third reading

Series Number

L0097

Summary

This series contains a one-volume record used to track all proposed amendments to the New York State Constitution ordered to a Third Reading. Before being voted upon by delegates, amendments were required to have a Third Reading before the Convention.

Creator

• New York (State). Constitutional Convention, 1938

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Elmira Reformatory officers' time book

Series Number

B2012

Summary

This series consists of summary information for employee absences, make-up days, and scheduling adjustments at the Elmira Reformatory. Information includes names, dates absent or made up, and nature of absences, usually sickness or vacation.

Creator

• Elmira Reformatory

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Requisitions for Barge Canal materials and equipment

Series Number

B0605

Summary

These requisitions were submitted by the Department of Public Works, Division of Canals and Waterways, to the Department of Audit and Control. Requisitions were made for steel, lumber, gravel, pipe, machinery, and other heavy equipment and material. Each file contains bid proposals with detailed specifications of the equipment or materials and proposed price; identification of low bidder; and information and instruction sheets to bidders. Some files contain manufacturer's catalogs, photographs or blueprint drawings of machinery, and correspondence.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Poliomyelitis case report cards

Series Number

B0163

Summary

Physicians across the state were required to report each case of designated communicable diseases to the State Department of Health. This series consists of personal and medical data of polio victims. Personal data includes patient's name; address; occupation; age; sex; color/race; and national origin. Medical data includes where and how the disease was contracted; physical relationship to milk production or dairy farming; onset, duration, extent, and location of paralysis; contagion preventative measures; and (after 1960) immunization history. Records are restricted pursuant to state and federal laws.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Health. Bureau of Acute Communicable Disease Control

Access Restrictions

Restricted by New York Public Health Law sect. 18 and New York Code of Rules and Regulations part 10, sect. 50-4; by New York Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6) sect. 87.2(b); by New York Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6-A) sect. 96; and by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acct (HIPAA), 42 U.S. Code sect. 1320d-6, and -7.

Title

Hudson River-Black River Regulating District land acquisition files

Series Number

B2774

Summary

This series consists of land title documentation for acquisition of all land used in the creation of the Sacandaga Reservoir. Typical files contain title searches, surveys, property descriptions, tract maps, correspondence, copies of deeds, and transmitted letters arranged numerically for tract numbers 1 to 1,142. Access is gained via a key map which depicts all tracts comprising the reservoir.

Creator

• Hudson River-Black River Regulating District (N.Y.)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Stipulations

Series Number

J0005

Summary

The small number of documents in this series relate to a judgment by a town of Romulus justice of the peace in Seneca County. The judgment was removed to the Seneca County Court of Common Pleas by a writ of certiorari, and thence submitted without writ of error to the Supreme Court by stipulation of the attorneys. The documents are the return to writ of certiorari, with stipulation, plaintiff's brief, and a letter to the clerk of the Supreme Court at Utica.

Creator

• New York (State). Supreme Court of Judicature (Geneva)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Office of Business and Licensing Services closed licensing hearing case files

Series Number

B2760

Access Restrictions

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