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Magistrates Court docket books (New York City Municipal Archives)
Reading left to right, the ledger columns are headed:
- Docket Number
- Complainant (often left blank, likely indicating that the complainant did not appear)
- Residence (in some cases the address recorded here is the complainant's business, not residence)
- Defendant
- Residence
- Sex
- Age
- Color (B or W)
- Nativity (US, rather than a state or city, recorded)
- Nature of Complaint (the charge, with any change to the change recorded by striking through the original charge and writing in the new charge above or next to it)
- Date of Complaint
- Process
- Officer
- Precinct
- Date of Arrest
- Plea
- Fine
- Paid
- Disposition of Case (the dates of subsequent appearances in court for those who are held for investigation are recorded here as well as the sum set for bail)
- Date of Disposition
- Name and Residence of Bondsman
- Name and Residence of Attorney