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Title

Vouchers for expenditures on account of canal fund

Series Number

A1145

Summary

Vouchers for Canal expenditures submitted for audit by canal officials to the Comptroller, Chief Clerk or Auditor of the Canal Department by Canal officials. The vouchers include name of payee, nature of expenditure, and amount of payment. Attached to vouchers are bills, invoices, orders to pay, and letters. Vouchers for refunds of overpaid tolls are also included.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Matteawan State Hospital records

Series Number

A0505

Summary

This series contains records pertaining to Auburn Asylum for Insane Convicts and Matteawan State Hospital. Auburn Asylum records include prison inspectors' minutes; superintendent's reports; employee records; an inmate register; account books and inventory records; and case record books. Matteawan State Hospital records include case records; account books; lunacy commissioners' notes; medical inspectors' notes; and special files relating to notorious criminal cases.

Creator

• Matteawan State Hospital

Title

Barge Canal aerial photographs

Series Number

22424

Summary

This series consists of black and white aerial photographs that depict the entire New York State Barge Canal System. The photographs are indexed by State Archives series B2315, Index to Barge Canal aerial photographs.

Creator

• New York State Canal Corporation

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Board of Visitors meeting minutes

Series Number

B1900

Summary

Craig Colony for Epileptics was established in 1894 to offer residential, educational, occupational, and medical facilities for epileptics. It remained an institution for epileptics until 1967. Although the format and content of these meeting minutes changes over time, typical content includes lists of employees appointed, promoted, resigned, and dismissed; lists of patients admitted and discharged; patient census statistics; resolutions; transcripts of correspondence; and statistical and narrative reports on accidents, escapes, and other matters of special note.

Creator

• Craig Developmental Disabilities Services Office

Access Restrictions

Records identifying patients are 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 for People with Developmental Disabilities.

Title

Financial and statistical data tables

Series Number

14196

Summary

These tables of financial and statistical data for cities, villages and district superintendencies were compiled from reports submitted by individual schools and school districts during 1918-1919. The tables include detailed information on financial payments and receipts; buildings, property, and libraries; teachers and pupils; teachers training classes; normal schools; evening schools; Indian schools; vocational schools; private academies; villages and cities maintaining kindergartens; compulsory attendance; and comparison of statistics from all public schools in 1918 and 1919.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Assembly records of George L. Ingalls

Series Number

L0254

Summary

These Assembly and personal records of George L. Ingalls relate to his activities as Majority Leader of the Assembly. They include bills; bill drafts and notes; legislative reports and memoranda; press releases; and Majority Leader remarks. There is also information and constituency opinions about issues relating to his district; personal correspondence; campaign materials including speeches, press releases, newspaper clippings, and maps of the Broome County voting districts.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Assemblyman (1953-1965 : George L. Ingalls)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Orange County tax assessment rolls

Series Number

A4763

Creator

• Orange (N.Y. : County)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Abstracts of letters patent

Series Number

A4005

Summary

This series consists of abstracts of patents granted for land in New York State. Information includes patentee's name; patent date; land location; land description and acreage. Also included are some undated certifications stating that the preceding abstracts had been compared with the originals in the Secretary's office.

Creator

• New York (State). Surveyor General

Access Restrictions

Microfilm is not available for duplication or interlibrary loan.

Title

Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission marketing and contract files

Series Number

22342

Summary

This series documents the New York State Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission's marketing efforts to increase public awareness of the Quadricentennial and its commemoration. The records document fundraising and other business conducted between corporate sponsors and the Commission. Record types include correspondence, notes, brochures, contracts, articles, and slide shows. Some records relate to the design of the Commission's website, the anniversary logo, license plates, coins, and other commemorative items.

Creator

• New York (State). Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Minutes and working papers of the board to supervise the repairs upon the State Hall

Series Number

A1169

Summary

This series contains Board meeting minutes; correspondence of the Office of the Capitol Commissioner concerning the repairs; specifications for the renovation (including remarks on existing condition of building); lists of vouchers, bills for building supplies; and plans and specifications for elevators.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Historical marker survey files

Series Number

22356

Summary

This series documents the results of a survey of existing historical markers administered by staff of the Office of the State Historian, which was begun in 1994 to re-inventory all the standing site markers, whether erected by the State of New York or not, and to upgrade the inventory as an electronic database. The survey consists of a two-sided form, often with a photograph of the marker attached to the form.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of the State Historian

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Census of electors

Series Number

A0277

Summary

This series consists of fragmentary burned schedules of the Census of Electors. The schedules give the name of the head of the family and the number of electors in various categories: freeholders of property worth 100 pounds or more; freeholders of property worth from 20 to 100 pounds; and non-freeholders renting tenements of annual value of 40 shillings.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of State

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Maps of lands in New York and Vermont

Series Number

A4011

Summary

These survey maps were made for landholders, for partitioning of land, and for disposition of as yet unappropriated lands. Most maps depict areas of eastern upstate New York; some show lands bordering on or within Vermont. The maps generally provide: name, location, or number of the town, tract, patent, or Indian reservation surveyed; lot boundaries and dimensions; lot numbers; names of landholders (sometimes); waterways; and the number of acres in area surveyed (sometimes).

Creator

• New York (State). Surveyor General

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Lakeview Correctional Facility inmate case files

Series Number

W0029

Summary

Lakeview Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility, located in Chautauqua County, N.Y., is a minimum security correctional facility for male and female felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated individuals.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Correctional Services

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

Card index to correspondence of the State Engineer and Surveyor

Series Number

10482

Summary

This series consists of index cards that act as a partial index to the correspondence files of the New York State Engineer and Surveyor, Series B0226.

Creator

• New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Duanesburg minutes

Series Number

A4777

Creator

• Duanesburg (N.Y. : Town)

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Reports

Series Number

L0240

Summary

This series consists of reports of the commission on various topics such as state reorganization, state retirement, strategic planning, performance measurement and reporting, procurement reform, financial management and accounting reform, and internal accounting control.

Creator

• New York (State). Legislature. Legislative Commission on Public Management Systems

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Community Facilities Project Guarantee Fund Board waivers

Series Number

18960

Summary

This series consists of waivers signed by the statutory members of the Community Facilities Project Guarantee Fund (CFPGF). The waivers state that the CFPGF's oversight board will not have an annual meeting because there are no issues that require the board's attention.

Creator

• New York (State). Community Facilities Project Guarantee Fund

Access Restrictions

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

Title

Factory Investigating Commission financial records

Series Number

A3018

Summary

This series contains vouchers, typed financial statements, and ledgers, recording expenses of the Factory Investigation Committee for salaries, office supplies, rent, and travel. The records generally provide payment date; to whom paid; purpose of payment; and amount paid. Two of the ledgers also provide lists of employees' names, addresses, and phone numbers.

Creator

• New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission

Access Restrictions

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

Title

New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets applications for migrant labor registration certificates

Series Number

A0511

Summary

The Department of Agriculture and Markets required all migrants to register. The labor certificates include name and address of registrant; farm worked; number of migrants needed; migrant's home state; employment dates; name and address of camp where housed; list of crops and type of work; wages paid by type of crop; charges to migrants including for meals, room, electricity, and transportation to New York State; and if migrants were covered by workmen's compensation or farmer's liability insurance.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets

Access Restrictions

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