Register of tax sale certificates surrendered for deeds

Chronological by the date returned certificates were received.

Registers in this series were created to record the issuance of deeds to purchasers of lands sold for unpaid taxes. The Comptroller's Office performed that function until 1926; the State Tax Commissioner had the responsibility after 1926. The person who bought property in the tax sale was given a certificate. When the grace period for redeeming the property was over, the buyer gave the certificate back, and was issued a deed.

B0856-85: This register was created by the comptroller's office to document issuance of deeds to purchasers of lands sold for unpaid taxes, in exchange for surrender of purchase certificates. For each deed is given the date the certificate was received; name of purchaser; date of deed; and checkmarks for signatures and entry; and date and manner of delivery.

B0956-99: This accretion consists of one volume partially created by the Comptroller's Office and partially, later, by the Dept. of Taxation and Finance. Information for each entry includes numbers of certificates received for deeds; numbers of deeds issued; name of grantee; date of deed; confirmation that the certificate and deed were compared, signed, and entered; and date deed was delivered, with remark either by mail or personally.

Series B1614, Abstracts of Deeds Conveyed to Purchasers of Land Sold for Unpaid Taxes, is accessed chronologically by this series.

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