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Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of vouchers for payment submitted to the Comptroller's Office by officials at Auburn Prison. Expenditures are listed for prison maintenance items such as food, utensils, and clothing, as well as for administrative items such as office supplies. Payments for guards and yard keepers .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Series:
A1240
Dates:
1779-1782
Abstract:
This series consists of returns for taxes paid into the Albany and Dutchess Counties treasuries. Records include lists of dated returns denoting the amount of money that was collected in each district of the County. Dutchess County returns may also include the names of the collectors for each district .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Office of the Auditor of the Canal Department
Series:
A1267
Dates:
1817-1871
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts of monies paid to contractors and others for construction, repair, and enlargement of the Erie and Champlain canals. Each account contains: name of contractor; number of contract; location of work (section or lock number); date; and amount of payment. Also included in .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series contains financial actions relative to securities purchased for various state funds. Information includes the name of the security, rate, coupon or regular, amount; principal paid (date and amount) and relevant year. Accounts are arranged by fund types such as the common school fund, United .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Series:
A1260
Dates:
1817, 1819-1822
Abstract:
This series from the Comptroller's Office contains a list of noncurrent bank notes deposited in various state banks. The records contain the name of the bank where deposits were made, the amount of the deposit and the date..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts of payments made to companies on vouchers for equipment, supplies, materials, and services used on work done in the Western Division of the Barge Canal. Companies include parts manufacturers; insurers; foundries; carters; realtors/rental agents; tool and machine makers; .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of weekly accounts from the Comptroller's Office of items produced and value in the State Prison Factory (Newgate Prison, New York City), by nailers, carpenters, coopers, tailors, a paper ruler, weavers, a furrier, shoemakers, and women seamstresses..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor
Series:
B0249
Dates:
1857-1894
Abstract:
These volumes contain detailed statistical data on agricultural and manufactured goods that passed through the toll collector's office at Boonville on the Black River Canal. These accounts record types of materials and their weight and or measurements. Entries are recorded daily and totaled at weekly, .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of a summary record of property transfer taxes paid to the State Comptroller. Information includes the date of receipt; receipt number; decedent; name of person paying tax; payer's address; amount paid; amount of gifts, legacies, etc.; and remarks. There are no indexes to names .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office
Abstract:
none
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
A law of 1911 required all athletic clubs to pay a tax of 7.5 percent on gross proceeds of boxing or sparring matches and submit statements of the proceeds and tax to the State Comptroller. Money was used to pay expenses of the State Athletic Commission, established in 1911. Each typewritten carbon .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of lists of private and taxable state lands in Forest Preserve counties on which 1912 property taxes remained unpaid, and for which either the property description or the assessed tax were rejected as improper. Each entry provides the name of the tract or patent, lot number, description .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). State Tax Commission
Abstract:
The State Tax Commission was responsible for formulation of tax policy. This series consists of entries for payments of salaries and expenses of members and employees of the State Tax Commission from its president to stenographers..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series is a record of accounts of expenses by the Legislature for items, primarily of a "housekeeping" nature (i.e. telephone company accounts, postage, telegraph payments, funeral related expenses, and travel expenses for investigative committees). Accounts include sergeant at arms; committee .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This volume of accounts of the State Lottery is for the five medical science and seven literature lotteries. Included are some or all of the following information: amount grossed; expenses related; amount to be accounted for by managers; balance; date of lottery; amount of prizes; distribution of money .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
These are accounts of work done by the state printer for the Legislature. The printer was appointed by the Legislature and was paid by the State Treasurer on warrant of the Comptroller. The law appointed two printers to print all laws presently in force and all which would be passed by the present session. .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of accounts, apparently of tax money, received by the State Comptroller from various state and local agencies and organizations. Information includes date, name of organization or agency, amount (probably received), and remarks (these include such notes as tax, repairs, common school .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
Accounts of taxes on incorporated companies, in five sewn booklets varying in content and format..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Series:
B1607
Dates:
1811-1845
Abstract:
This series consists of registers of taxes collected for projects carried out according to special legislation. These laws authorized projects to open, construct, or improve roads and to drain swamp land throughout the state. Volume 1, labeled "Road Taxes," covers authorizing laws from 1811-1830. Volume .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
Creator:
New York (State). Comptroller's Office
Abstract:
This series consists of tax lists for steamboats Richmond, Paragon, and Chancellor Livingston. . The Canal Fund law includes a one dollar tax upon each steamboat passenger for each trip of over 100 miles, and fifty cents for any distance between 30 and 100 miles. Proceeds were deposited in the Canal .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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