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Lake Champlain Bridge Commission

 

 

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This series consists microfilmed records of the New York and Vermont Joint Bridge Commission and the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission. These records document commission activities from its founding to dissolution and include minutes and correspondence; bridge planning, construction, operation, and repair .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of court papers, and correspondence relating to legal proceedings involving patients at Willard State Hospital. Material includes notices, petitions, transcripts, and affidavits relating to appointing representatives for legally committed patients to manage their property and affairs .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

63

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New York (State). Office of Victim Services

 

 

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These files relate to cases where the convicts might benefit from a reenactment of their crime including David Berkowitz, ("Son of Sam"); Mark David Chapman (John Lennon's murderer); John Wojtowicz; Henry Hill; Jean Harris; Jack Henry Abbott; and Sydney Biddle Barrows ("Mayflower Madam"). Files include .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

64

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New York (State). Commission on Government Integrity

 

 

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Abstract:  

These state and federal court records document litigation that resulted from the Commission's investigation of state and local political party committees and political action committees. Documents include pleadings; notices; motions; affidavits; briefs; memoranda of law; transcripts of proceedings; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

65

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New York (State). Division of the Budget

 

 

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The series includes memoranda, correspondence, reports, surveys, studies, and issue papers received or produced by Division of the Budget executive offices and examination units. The files document the Division's oversight of agency programs, policies, and expenditures. Significant issues documented .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

66

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New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Counsel's Office

 

 

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The series consists of correspondence, memorandums, copies of legal documents, and related materials produced by executive staff of the Department of Law while supervising the prosecution of significant legal cases. Legal documents include copies of opinions, petitions, orders, motion notices, and exhibit .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

67

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

 

 

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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

 

68

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New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series compiled by the State Engineer and Surveyor documents the appraisal, surveying, purchase, and sale of lands within the state. Records include land tract sales, land appraisals, surveys and descriptions of tracts, reports (such as land boundaries and state canals); correspondence (including .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

69

Creator:

New York (State). Division of Water

 

 

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This series from the Division of Water and predecessor offices reveals a part of the state's effort to control water pollution. It contains studies on the causes of water pollution, status reports on sewerage systems, memorandums, correspondence, public hearing transcripts, maps, letters from citizens .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

70

Creator:

New York (State). Civil Service Commission

 

 

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This series consists of files and reports from a State Civil Service Commission investigation of the practices of the Lackawanna City Civil Service Commission in response to veterans groups' legal actions against the municipal commission and petitions over a fire fighter examination. Records include .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

71

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New York (State). Education Department. Division of Educational Finance

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series relates to the formation and alteration of central rural and high schools; enlarged city schools; village superintendencies; union free schools; consolidated districts; BOCES; and VEEBS. Documents include orders of the commissioner of education and district superintendents; petitions for .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

72

Creator:

New York (State). Commission on Government Integrity

 

 

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Abstract:  

The commission compiled the information in these files to further its investigation into violations of ethical or legal standards of conduct by public officials and employees. Informants wrote to the commission making allegations against individuals and organizations. These allegations included involvement .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of files created by John Hanna, Jr. while serving as counsel to the New York State Office of Employee Relations and as deputy commissioner and general counsel of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The materials do not completely document his tenure in these .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

74

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Law. Civil Rights Bureau

 

 

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Abstract:  

The Civil Rights Bureau enforces laws to protect New Yorkers from discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, source of income, or disability. The series consists of closed case files covering a broad variety of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

75

Creator:

New York (State). Division of Industrial Sciences and Technologies

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of the subject files of the Division of Industrial Sciences and Technologies, which was responsible for coordinating activities and formulating policies in the New York State Department of Commerce relating to the development of environmental, energy, technology, and scientific .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

76

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Law

 

 

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This series consists of outgoing and incoming correspondence, memorandums, news clippings, published and unpublished reports, copies of draft legislation (federal and state), notices of appointments, and other materials created by the Attorney General and support staff for reference and to document .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

77

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Law. Litigation Bureau

 

 

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Abstract:  

This series consists of landmark case files from the Department of Law. Files must meet at least one of these criteria: the files document cases that resulted in landmark decisions, rulings, or orders and therefore provide evidence of precedents; pertain to notorious figures or organizations that are .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

78

Creator:

New York (State). Department of Law. Executive Office

 

 

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Abstract:  

These records, from a variety of senior staff members, reflect the interests and activities of the Attorney General's Office. Included are files related to audits, litigation, opinions, engagements, and interests of the office on such topics are housing discrimination, civil rights, Indian land claims, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives