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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of minute and account books kept by the County Commissioners of the U.S. Deposit Fund.

The format varies considerably, but the books typically contain minutes of actions of the Commissioners, including: allotment of monies to the various towns and city wards in the county; statements of loans applied for and awarded; annual reports submitted to the Comptroller; lists of persons to whom notices of default were served; minutes (or "synopses") of mortgages taken, including mortgage number, name of mortgagor, date, terms of mortgage, bounds of property mortgaged, date and place of recording, signatures or marks of mortgagor and Commissioners, and sometimes a record of payments; minuted receipts and disbursements; and receipts from State Treasurer for monies credited to the state. For some counties minute books and cash book or journal are kept separately.