N.Y. Executive Law § 5: Executive records

§ 5. Executive records. The governor shall cause to be kept in the

executive chamber or in the appropriate state office:

1. Journals of the daily transactions of his office.

2. Registers, containing classified statements of such transactions.

3. Separate registers containing classified statements of all

applications for pardon, commutation or other executive clemency, and of

his action thereon.

4. An account of his official expenses and disbursements, including

the incidental expenses of his department.

5. Files of all official records upon which applications for executive

clemency are founded; of statements made by judges to him; of sentences

to death and of the testimony in capital cases; and of such other papers

relating to the transactions of his office as are deemed by him of

sufficient value for preservation.