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New York State Department of Audit and Control Correspondence, Speech, and Report Files


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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
This series consists of records compiled by the office of New York State Comptroller Arthur Levitt. Records include personal and official correspondence, schedules of Levitt's activities, committee files, subject files, speeches, published opinions of the state attorney general, published annual financial reports of the state comptroller, and special reports of the state comptroller.
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New York State Department of Audit and Control correspondence, speech, and report files
Quantity:

18 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1936-1978
Series Number:
B1372

Arrangement

Correspondence, subject files, speeches: Alphabetical by subject or correspondent (I - W only).

Schedules, reports, opinions: Chronological.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains records produced by or for State Comptroller Arthur Levitt and his staff in the course of their constitutionally mandated duties of maintaining the state's accounts; paying the state's bills and payrolls; auditing the financial and management practices of the state's departments, divisions, offices, and public authorities; examining the fiscal affairs of all units of local government in the state; reviewing the financial plans and fiscal and management practices of New York City and organizations affiliated with it; administering the state's public employee retirement systems; investing the funds of the state as well as monies held by the state in custody for others; administering the state's cash flow; and serving as a source of fiscal legal advice for both state agencies and local governments.

These records include personal and official correspondence to the state comptroller from 1955 to 1978 and copies of his replies, schedules of his activities (1970-1978), committee files (1955-1969), subject files, speeches, published opinions of the attorney general [ca. 1944-1977], published annual financial reports of the comptroller (1936-1978), and special reports of the comptroller [ca. 1957-1975].

Related Material

B2467 New York State Comptroller's Office Press Releases, 1959-1976, contains additional records of State Comptroller Arthur Levitt.

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