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State Agency Finding Aid: Treasurer and Comptroller's Papers, 1731-1948
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TREASURER’S AMD COMPTROLLER’S PAPERS
The main body of the records of the Treasurer and Comptroller,
listed in the succeeding pages, were transferred to the North
Carolina Historical Commission (now the State Department of Archives
and History) during the biennium 1920-1922. The biennials report-Pf
1916-1918 notes that work had begun on indexing the "Revolutionary
Army .Accounts, indicating that at least those volumes and possibly
others already were lodged with the Commission. No records for this
peridd list such accessions. The report of the Commission -for.- the
1920-1922Jbiennium state8- that. -following 'papers were received:
"Treasurer, Comptroller, and Auditor, 1790-1870, 33 volumes, 7,900
pieces." The accession book for. 1918-1927 gives a fairly detailed
list of volumes and papers received, under the dates of November 29,
1920, and January 24, January 30, March 15, March 16, March 18, and
August 9, 1921. These records indicate that actually well over 50
volumes were received. During the biennium 1922-1924, 317 pieces
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were added to the Treasurer’s papers, and in 1938, five volumes and
one pox of manuscripts concerning the construction of the State
Capitol were accessioned.
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The second major transfer of records from the Treasurer’s office
to the State Department of Archives and History took place in
October and November of 1948. Accessioned at that time were 413
volumes, 15 blueprints, and three large boxes of correspondence. A
report from Frances Harmon on the registration of these records with
the Department notes that "Whenithese records were transferred . . .
therp were already in the custody of this division, 71 volumes and
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boxes of Treasurer’s material."
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j The decision to merge the papers of the Treasurer and Comptroller
into, a single group to be titled the TREASURER’S AND COMPTROLLER’S
PAPERS was made after it became ( apparent that there would be great
difficulty in distinguishing between the papers of the two offices.
In working the two groups it was found that the papers had become so
intermingled and that the type of record created by the two offices
was so similar, that it was impossible to restore provenance.
1 Records now listed in the TREASURER’S AND COMPTROLLER'S PAPERS
under Ports were maintained as a separate group in the Archives until
196l|. During the biennium 1920-1922, the Customs House papers were
accessioned and arranged, and the records of the ports of Roanoke,
Bath, and New Bern were accessioned during the biennium of 1922-1924,
«according to the biennial reports. The accession book for 1918-1927,
under .the dates previously mentioned, however, seems to indicate that
the jCustoms House and ports records came into the Archives as a part
of the Treasurer's or Comptroller's
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separate collection at a later date. Because of the largely financial
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