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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of maps created pursuant to Chapter 715 of the Laws of 1907 for the purpose of highway improvement planning. Under this law, the State Engineer and Surveyor was directed to file a copy of each map with the appropriate board of supervisors and county clerk and a copy of all county maps with the Secretary of State "to be kept as a state record." These maps comprise the "state record" referred to in the law.

A4610-98:The maps are paper mounted on cloth, stamped "Department of State." Each map shows improved county highways, those under contract for improvement, and those designated for improvement under the law. Not all counties in New York State are represented in the series. Most of the maps were annotated in anticipation of updates generated pursuant to Section 315 of Chapter 330 of the Laws of 1908. These map legends contain additional entries for: highways designated for future improvement and added by resolution of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to 1908 legislation; and highways designated for future improvement and struck out by resolution of the Board of Supervisors pursuant to 1908 legislation. Despite the annotations, no corresponding symbols were added to the map legends and no changes were made to the maps themselves.

A4610-03:This accretion consists of one volume of folded paper maps. The maps are duplicates of the maps in A4610-98, but none bear the annotations that were added to most of the maps in the "state record" set in anticipation of updates generated pursuant to Section 315 of Chapter 330 of the Laws of 1908. Unlike the "state record" set of maps, this volume includes maps for all fifty-seven counties outside of New York City.