Assorted documents, 1903-1910.

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Assorted documents, 1903-1910.

This series includes correspondence, notes, deeds, contracts, checks, court-issued documents, and leases. The bulk of the records consist of contracts and similar agreements made by the Attorney General's Office for the services of receiver attorneys, or for the designation of special counsel, in various legal cases that involved New York State. These agreements date largely from the period that John Cunneen was Attorney General (1903-1905), and the year or two immediately after. Other records in the series include a lease for Cunneen's New York City office (1904-1905), a calendar for a special term of the New York Supreme Court held in Herkimer (1910), checks written by the Department of Highways for payment of engineering services (1907-08),

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Cunneen, John.

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New York (State). Attorney General's Office

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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...