The County Clerk: works with agencies of county and local governments heads the local Department of Motor Vehicles office represents two federal agencies and seven state government agenciesThe County Clerk is: registrar for land transactions (deeds, mortgages, maps, etc.) and keeps those records repository for Uniform Commercial Code filings, veterans' discharges, old census records, oaths of office, pistol permits and many other instruments registrar for business certificates for doing business under an assumed name and doing business as partnerships. For Certificates of Incorporation, call NY State Department, Corporate & State Records Division, (518) 474-4429Same-day service for providing a printed copy of a homeowner's deed at 65 cents per page (state-required copying charge). If the request is sent by e-mail, an electronic copy is free. Represents these U.S. Government functions: Passport Acceptance Agents filing Federal Tax Liens citizenship applicationsRepresents these New York State agencies/departments: Department of State: Notary Public applications and swearing in of notaries Office of Court Administration: clerk of Supreme and County Courts and all civil and criminal files Department of Taxation & Finance and Equalization and Assessment: collects various fees and required forms, plus mortgage and transfer taxes Department of Education: records management officer for county Department of Motor Vehicles: see separate listingOther functions include: census information incomplete set of census data from 1825 to 1925 other sources of census data are: Tompkins County Public Library: Tompkins County census information from 1820 to 1920, summary statistics for 1930 to 1990 Cornell University's Mann Library: more complete census information for New York State www.census.gov Ithaca City and Tompkins County Databook, 1990 census summary information forms needed for legally changing one's name