The record book is a manuscript volume containing receipts signed by the chairman of the executive committee of the Normal School for the amount of the appropriation delivered by the treasurer.

This manuscript volume includes a separate entry for each property recording for each the name of the property owner/renter, the capital amount due on each, and details on regular amounts paid to the city as ground rent on the property. The record also includes notes showing transfers of title, full payment of the capital amounts (as allowed by various ordinances), etc. There is a typewritten "index" to the properties in the front of the volume.