Research

Scope and Content Note

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 also appear, as do expenses for the discharge of prisoners. Agents' reports, monthly compiled statistical accounts of expenditures, are found for some months.