Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: records payments due for municipal contracts. Lists contractor, work performed on wharves, levees, public buildings, street cleaning, engine house construction, etc., and the amount of payment due. Includes payments for supplies/equipment furnished as well. Some records also give reference to the Council appropriation for the expenditure and/or to the account to be charged for the expenditure. A sample, dated June 9, 1846: To W.S. Jones For 1 brass lock $1 For repairs to iron railing of...

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Legal descriptions of lots with lot numbers, frontage and depth, names of owners, and amount due for paving. Possibly used to compile paving bills.

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Lists date, name of property owner, description of property with measurements, and the amount of payment due. Covers projects on thirty-three streets, roughly from Julia to Felicity.

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Letter press copies of sketches showing property lines, with owners, locations, and dimensions indicated.

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Each record gives the date, name of property owner, location of property, measurements of property, nature of the survey, and name of officer making the survey. Some also indicate the fee charged and some record payment of the fee. At least two are accompanied by sketch plans. The volume is indexed by name of property owner.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Copies of deeds, probably abstracted from acts of sale or copied directly from the register of conveyances, for properties sold in the municipality. The arrangement is roughly chronological by date of sale, but copies may have been made when information on ownership of a specific property was needed by the Surveyor's Office. The dates listed are the dates recorded on the spine of each volume; sales recorded in each, however, date from 1810-1848 for volume one and from 1829-1849 for volume...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Copies of deeds, probably abstracted from acts of sale or copied directly from the register of conveyances, for properties sold in the municipality. The arrangement is roughly chronological by date of sale, but copies may have been made when information on ownership of a specific property was needed by the Surveyor's Office. The dates listed are the dates recorded on the spine of each volume; sales recorded in each, however, date from 1810-1848 for volume one and from 1829-1849 for volume...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Includes copies of petitions, Council resolutions, approvals by the Mayor, proofs of publication of advertisement of the proposed actions, references to court cases to authorize the actions (with names of individuals appointed as commissioners), lists of property owners, and certifications by the Surveyor and the Recorder of Mortgages. The lists of property owners include property descriptions and appraised value of their holdings. In some cases the treatment of improvements located on the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Includes copies of petitions, Council resolutions, approvals by the Mayor, proofs of publication of advertisement of the proposed actions, references to court cases to authorize the actions (with names of individuals appointed as commissioners), lists of property owners, and certifications by the Surveyor and the Recorder of Mortgages. The lists of property owners include property descriptions and appraised value of their holdings. In some cases the treatment of improvements located on the...