All accounts and other computations of money in the treasury and other public offices, whether state or local, shall be kept and made out, in the money of account of the United States, that is to say : in dollars or units, dimes or tenths, cents or hundredths, mills or thousandths; a dime being the tenth part of a dollar, a cent the hundredth part of a dollar, and a mill the thousandth part of a dollar.
New York Legal Code