Scope and Content Note
This series contains printed and typescript opinions the New York State Attorney General, as well as one printed abstract of Attorney General's decisions. The opinions address a variety of issues of relevance to the Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor including sale of unappropriated state lands; legal possession of instruments, field notes, maps, and other records created by Verplanck Colvin during his survey of the Adirondack Wilderness; the state's title to lands under water in Lake Champlain; right of the state to tax private property standing on state lands; legal validity of canal contracts; jurisdiction of the State Board of Claims (predecessor of the State Court of Claims) to hear and determine claims against the state; and property description requirements in published applications for grants of lands under water.
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