Office registers and related records, 1892-1954.

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Office registers and related records, 1892-1954.

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Office register volumes in this series contain handwritten entries summarizing the status of legal cases handled by the Department of Law. Each case is summarized on a single page with the cases appearing in chronological order based on the date of the case opening. Summaries for later actions on each case are entered as part of the relevant case entry. The early pages for each volume index the cases, based on the names of concerned parties. Many types of cases are described, including habeas corpus actions, workmen's compensation claims, mortgage foreclosures, claims, incompetency actions, liens on public improvements, civil actions, agricultural cases, and so forth. A few volumes concern only agricultural cases. The volumes contain lists of witnesses, notices of intentions, alphabetical and numberical indexes, judgements received, and dismissals received.

39.5 cu. ft. (120 volumes)

New York State Archives

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In 1906, attorneys for the Cayuga Nation (George P. Decker and John Van Voorhis' Sons) filed a memorial with the Commissioners of the Land Office of the state of New York, requesting that cash profits realized by the state in the sale of Cayuga land cessions dating from the treaty of 1789 be paid to the Nation, or that the state's indebtedness to the tribe be acknowledged. From the description of Before the Commissioners of the Land Office of the state of New York in the matter of th...