Research

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Creator:

New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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Abstract:  

This volume is actually a compilation of several reports written by the State Engineer and Surveyor and by division engineers which made up the part of the State Engineer and Surveyor's 1851 annual report on canals. The narratives concern construction completed, costs, estimated costs of needed work, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

22

Creator:

New York (State). Division of the Budget. Research and Federal Relations Unit

 

 

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Abstract:  

The series consists of research files pertaining to a variety of financial issues involving state-federal cooperation. Issues include changes to federal assistance formulas; improving federal grant-in-aid programs; provision of federal disaster relief (Hurricane Agnes); testimony before the "Muskie .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

23

Creator:

New York (State). Division of the Budget

 

 

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Abstract:  

Records in this series document the monitoring and oversight of expenditures for construction and other projects undertaken by state agencies. Specifically, this series examines the fiscal and budgetary impact of major capital projects. Records include capital budget requests, capital plans, project .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

24

Creator:

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Assemblyman (1929-1943 : Abbot Low Moffat)

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains files created and maintained by Abbot L. Moffat during his tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly. Included are booklets, newspaper articles, publications, and other assorted documentation that reflect his interest in the budget and taxation. Also included are Republican .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

25

Creator:

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains files created and maintained by D. Mallory Stephens during his tenure as a member of the New York State Assembly. Included are booklets, newspaper articles, publications, and other assorted documentation that reflect his interests in the budget and taxation. Republican Party campaign .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

26

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

These statements from the Comptroller's Office include daily bank balances to the credit of various funds constituting the Canal Fund..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

27

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

The series consists of an informal, handwritten subject index to laws pertaining to responsibilities of the state comptroller. Laws dating from 1784 to 1915 are referenced. The creation date is unknown, but entries are by several hands, perhaps added over time, and represent a working copy. Subjects .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

28

Creator:

Bath (N.Y. : Village)

 

 

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Abstract:  

Village of Bath records include village board meeting minutes, Police Commission minutes, cash accounts, and Utility Commission minutes. Town of Bath records include highway records, town clerk's record and minute books, annual organization meetings, and budgets. Town of Bradford records include minute .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

29

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series contains applications by occupants or mortgagees of non-resident lands sold for unpaid taxes, seeking to redeem lands from sale upon payment of taxes. Most documents are affidavits of occupancy, giving detailed information on how long the occupant occupied the land and its use (usually farming .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

30

Creator:

New York (State). Legislature. Senate

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of mainly correspondence, but also reports, minutes of land office commissioners, depositions, memoranda, lists of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, and claims. These may have been the working papers of Senator Thomas Hillhouse. Also included are financial matters such .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

31

Creator:

New York (State). Comptroller's Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

Canal Commissioners were required to take receipts for all expenditures and to settle accounts with the comptroller relating to construction of a harbor or basin at Buffalo and Black Rock (western terminus of the Erie Canal). This series consists of accounts (receipts and bills) for expenditures by .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

32

Creator:

New York (State). Legislature. Senate

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of press releases from offices of state legislators in the senate and assembly; executive chamber governors Rockefeller, Lindsay, La Guardia; various state agencies; state committees; and private organizations. A wide variety of subjects are covered in the series, notably: commerce; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

33

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Health

 

 

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Abstract:  

The series consists of project files for sewage treatment works in state municipalities for which state planning aid was requested. The records include correspondence, memoranda, discharge permits, certificates of expenditures, engineers' field reports, and applications for state grants to fund preliminary .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

34

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Taxation and Finance. Estates Tax Processing Unit

 

 

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Abstract:  

The Estates Tax Processing Unit deals with the payment of taxes against the transfer of property from the estates of decedents. Records include last wills and testaments; real property appraisals and photographs; correspondence; trust deeds; estate inventories; and other documents pertaining to the .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

35

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Audit and Control

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of three pages listing contracts with banks allowing an interest on deposit of Canal monies at sixty days for 4.5 or 5% interest. Each entry provides the date of the contract; contract number; the name of the bank; and rate of interest..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

36

Creator:

New York (State). Bureau of Canal Affairs

 

 

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Abstract:  

The series shows accounts of payments to individuals and firms for work on the state's canals. For each account, there is a brief description of the work contracted for, date of payment, payee (mostly "to cash") and payment amount. Amounts are totaled when more than one job is present under the account .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Office of Program Development, Planning and Research

 

 

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Abstract:  

In June 1972, Hurricane Agnes caused flooding that led to real property damage in many Hudson Valley, Central, and Southern Tier counties in New York. Emergency federal disaster loans were made available soon afterward. This series contains correspondence, news releases, newspaper clippings, damage .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives