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  • Record ID: 1
  • Name: General Fund/City Controller
  • Type: Ledger
  • Date: 1894 - 1896
  • Description: Text is a record of accounts payable covering salaries of city employees including but not limited to Mayor, fire and police departments. Ledger payments for various departments including city council, highway fire and sanitary department with some description of job service also appear in the text.
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  • Record ID: 2
  • Name: Treasury Department/General Cash
  • Type: Ledger
  • Date: 1899 - 1944
  • Description: Text is for accounts payable and receivables and for the collection of receivables for permits, licenses, repairs to meters and parking meters. Additionally noted are payables for salaries and expenses of various city departments.
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  • Record ID: 3
  • Name: Treasury Department/Accounts Payable
  • Type: Ledger
  • Date: 1907 - 1939
  • Description: Information for 1907-1939 includes salaries, departmental expenses such as repairs, board for horses, cleaning of offices, repairs to sewers, and paving, and the purchase of land for parks and public property. There are entries for city tax from 1886-1908.
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  • Record ID: 4
  • Name: Treasurer's Receipts/General Receipts/City Council/Accounts Receivable
  • Date: 1870 - 1892
  • Description: City taxes, water rents, market rents, fines and forfeitures, licenses, regulator permits, sewer permits, sewer assessments, water pipe assessments, city loans, proceeds of sale of reservoir lots, street paving and grading, interest and miscellaneous information are categories noted in this text.
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  • Record ID: 5
  • Name: City Treasurer General Receipts/General Accounting Docket
  • Date: 1887 - 1904
  • Description: Text notes water rents, water pipe assessments, permits, paving, miscellaneous, dog licenses, general licenses, fines and forfeitures and cesspool for date span.
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  • Record ID: 6
  • Name: Treasurer's Office/City Controller/Register of City Coupon Books
  • Date: 1871 - 1923
  • Description: Register of variable percentage of city coupon bonds with information pertaining to number, amount, issue date, due date, to whom issued, when redeemed, when reissued, book, page and year.
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  • Record ID: 7
  • Name: Controller/Special Funds/Cash Balance
  • Date: 1906 - 1915
  • Description: Text notes revenue either from or for street paving, water drinking fund, sewer assessment fund, curbing, reconstruction of Mulberry Street bridge loan, improvements and extension to sewer drainage system. General city fund includes revenue for licenses, fines and forfeitures, repair to sidewalks and dog licenses. Expenditures include salaries, repairs, office supplies, street sweeping, rents, and repairs to streets, sewers, steps, and bridges.
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  • Record ID: 8
  • Name: Controller's Office/Register of Improvement Bonds
  • Date: 1871 - 1923
  • Description: Number, amount, issue date, due date, to whom issued, when bond was redeemed, when reissued, book, page, year and remarks are headings in this text. The remarks include notations as to need for sewers, paving and curbing.
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  • Record ID: 9
  • Name: Assessment Record
  • Date: 1892 - 1921
  • Description: The assessment record notes amounts credited to accounts for paving and curbing of streets and their warrants. Ordinances from Select Council are included from 1893-1896.
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  • Record ID: 10
  • Name: City Controller/ Appropriations
  • Date: 1886 - 1894
  • Description: Text notes salaries, warrants, notations of ordinances, purchase of fire department equipment, bills, equipment repair bills, breakdown of expenses for fire, water, executive, highway and engineering departments. Entries for water meters paid by residents are also included.
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