2d Session.

No. 374.

USELESS PAPERS IN TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

LETTER

FROM

THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

SUBMITTING

SCHEDULES OF PAPERS, DOCUMENTS, ETC., ON THE FILES OF THE DEPARTMENT AND OF NO FURTHER USE IN THE TRANSACTION OF THE PUBLIC BUSINESS.

DECEMBER 16, 1909.-Referred to the Joint Select Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers and ordered to be printed.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, December 15, 1909.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith schedules of papers, documents, etc., on the files of this department which are not needed in the transaction of the public business and have no permanent value or historical interest, which are submitted in conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress approved February 16, 1889 (25 Stat., 672), as amended by sundry civil act approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 933).

Schedules of papers, etc., of the character above described pertaining to the Internal-Revenue Service, on file in owned and rented buildings under the control of this department, and the customs service in New York City, Detroit, Mich., Buffalo, N. Y., Niagara Falls, N. Y., Corpus Christi, Tex., and Kansas City, Mo., are also transmitted in accordance with the provisions of the acts cited.

It is requested that the matter be given immediate consideration, as the space now occupied by useless papers is urgently needed in the transaction of current business.

Respectfully,

CHARLES D. NORTON,
Acting Secretary.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

TREASURY DEpartment,

OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS, Washington, September 21, 1909. SIR: In reply to your communication of the 15th instant, relative to the disposition of papers, documents, etc., which are not needed in the transaction of public business, I have the honor to state that there are in this office monthly abstracts of triplicate invoices and lists of consular landing certificates from 1900 to 1907, inclusive, which can be dispensed with, and I recommend that the same be destroyed to make room for more important papers.

Respectfully,

The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

C. R. LAYTON,

Auditor.

TREASURY Department,

OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR WAR DEPARTMENT.

Consolidated list of papers, documents, etc., in the office of the Auditor for the War Department, which are reported by the auditor in his letter of September 25, 1909, as no longer needed in the tansaction of public business and as having no permanent or historical interest.

74 pamphlet copies of Army List and Directory.

1 attorney's book (1865-66).

37 miscellaneous unbound pamphlets.

10 copies U. S. Army Regulations, obsolete.

10 Paymasters' Manual.

12 Table of Distances, obsolete.

1 Army Register, 1902.

2 Government Salary Tables.

3 post-office directories.

1 report United States Civil Service Commission.

2 letterpress copy books.

152 blueprints (ordnance).

1 time book.

10 Pay Tables.

8 Official Railway Guides.

8 Army Registers (unbound).

21 Digest of Appropriations.

4 record books.

7 Congressional Directories.

56 War Department Orders (bound).

1 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

1 United States Custom Laws, 1879 to 1895.

2 blank books.

6 Appropriation Record Books, obsolete.

73 suspension books (clerks' blotters).

Blueprints and other obsolete papers, pamphlets, books, and records, which were reported by this office in January, 1904, for condemnation, stored in the basement of the Winder Building, about a cartload.

3,030 bundles and 1,188 boxes stored in the E-street building.

1,442 boxes of returns of clothing, camp and garrison equipage, stored in the Cox Building.

Schedule of useless papers, books, etc., in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. Records recommended to be destroyed.

Schedule of useless papers, books, etc., in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. Records recommended to be destroyed-Continued.

List of records of the Life-Saving Service which it is proposed to destroy.

1. Twenty-three packages pamphlets and 23 packages books, Property Returns, received from life-saving stations and district officials.

2. Two packages form letters granting leave of absence to office employees of the Life-Saving Service.

3. One package communications reporting withdrawal of supplies from storehouse in New York City.

4. Seven packages letters received from collectors of customs relating to reports of disasters to vessels.

5. Fourteen packages weekly line report from telephone linemen of Life-Saving Service, 1889 to 1905, inclusive.

6. Sixteen packages reports of progress of work from assistants to the superintendents of construction, 1889 to 1905, inclusive.

7. One package time reports, office employees of service.

8. Thirteen packages work reports, office employees of service.

9. Three packages "Statements of public funds," submitted by district officers.

10. Eleven packages requests for publications of Life-Saving Service, etc.

11. Two packages acknowledging receipt of drafts in payment of bills of Life-Saving Service.

12. One package form letters (1895), information for biennial register.

13. One package letters from district officers notifying general superintendent of intention to start on inspection trips and of return from said trips.

14. Twenty-two volumes index blotter of letters received.

15. One lot specifications for annual supplies.

16. One package tabulations of proposals for annual supplies.

17. One volume record of receipt of wreck reports from collectors of customs. 18. Five volumes index of letters sent to collectors of customs requesting reports of disasters to vessels.

TREASURY Department,

OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, November 3, 1909.

SIR: In compliance with department instructions of September 15, 1909, an examination of papers and documents belonging to the files of this office has been made, and 1 respectfully recommend that the papers and documents enumerated below be disposed of, as they are not needed in the transaction of current business and have no permanent value or historic interest.

Customs.-All abstracts of duties collected, all abstracts with warehouse and bond accounts, together with any stubs now in the files of this office prior to January 1, 1905, and up to certificate No. 49390, pertaining to the naval office ports of Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco; also the naval office port of Chicago from its creation under the act of February 6, 1904, to the abovementioned January 1, 1905.

Internal revenue.-All internal-revenue stub books to audit No. 1000, internal-revenue fiscal officers, July, 1908; all internal-revenue redeemed stamps to date; all duplicate C/D's to date.

Miscellaneous.-Assayers' reports, mints and assay office, and receipts and certificates of deposits of the bullion accounts; bills of lading and blank receipts with the United States express accounts; telegrams accompanying the Western Union Telegraph Company's and Postal Telegraph-Cable Company's accounts up to audit No. 66646.

Respectfully,

The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

S. J. ABBOTT, Acting Auditor.

TREASURY Department,
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND Printing,
November 2, 1909.

Complying with department circular of 15th ultimo, I submit the following list of papers of this bureau which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of this department, and have no permanent value or historical interest, and in my judgment are covered by the act of Congress approved February 16, 1899 (25 Stat., 672), as amended by sundry civil act approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat., 933). I recommend that they be sold or destroyed as junk.