Government and Courts
name: label: Series Creator
content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Law and Lawyers
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Law and Lawyers / Business Records, Marketing Material, and Legal Documents
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content: 1816-1978, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Law, Subseries 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries includes printed acts from the New York State Assembly in 1861 describing acts of the Assembly, for example the authorization on March 1 "extending of streets, and the building of docks and landing places in the city of Brooklyn," stating that "the people of the State of New York, represented in State and Assembly do enact as follows …Section 1 The common Council of the City of Brooklyn are hereby authorized to…" A very small amount of material is included from the Common Council of the City of New York from 1883, and from the Wisconsin Legislature in 1906. There are official documents and correspondence from various courts in New York State, including the Surrogate Court, Albany (1877), the Court of Chancery, State of New York from 1838, with many items related to the New York Supreme Court, ranging from 1836 to 1900. Materials related to New Jersey Courts, including an indictment and guilty plea for assault and battery which shows an itemized bill from the "Cumberland Oyer and Terminer" for all the expenses related to this case., e.g. entering and filing the indictment, crier's fees, and Justice and Constable fees on the arrest. These expenses are split among the Clerk, Court, Sheriff and "Als."