DISPOSITION OF RECORDS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR JANUARY 14, 1938.-Ordered to be printed Mr. COLDEN, from the Joint Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, submitted the following REPORT The joint select committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed on the part of the Senate and on the part of the House of Representatives, to which are referred the reports of the Archivist of the United States (in compliance with sec. 9 of the National Archives Act approved June 19, 1934), in respect to accumulation of records which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business of departments, bureaus, etc., and have no permanent value or historical interest, respectfully report to the Senate and House of Representatives, pursuant to an act entitled "An act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the executive departments," approved February 16, 1889, as amended, as follows: Your committee has taken action on the records described in the attached report of the Archivist of the United States, dated November 30, 1937, to the Seventy-fifth Congress, second session, with respect to records recommended to him for disposal by the Department of Labor, and we find and report that said records are not needed in the transaction of the current business of such Department and have no permanent value or historical interest. We recommend that the Department of Labor, as required by law, destroy or otherwise effectively dispose of such records; if by sale, upon the best obtainable terms, after due publication of notice inviting proposals therefor, and receive and pay the proceeds thereof into the Treasury of the United States and make report thereof to Congress. Respectfully submitted to the Senate and House of Representatives. CHAS. J. COLDEN, Chairman, B. W. GEARHART, Members on the part of the House. ALBEN W. BARKLEY, ERNEST W. GIBSON, Members on the part of the Senate. To the Congress of the United States: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, Washington, D. C., November 30, 1937. In compliance with the provisions of section 9 of the National Archives Act (48 Stat. 1122; U. S. C., title 40, sec. 239), I have the honor to transmit herewith the accompanying lists of papers, consisting of 282 items, among the archives and records of the Department of Labor which the Department has recommended should be destroyed or otherwise disposed of. These lists have been carefully examined and I beg to report, with the approval of The National Archives Council, that the archives and records described therein as items Nos. 1-282 appear to have no permanent value or historical interest. Respectfully submitted. R. D. W. CONNOR, Archivist of the United States. NOVEMBER 15, 1937. REPORT OF THE ARCHIVIST OF THE UNITED STATES ON LISTS OF PAPERS, CONSISTING OF 282 ITEMS, FROM THOSE RECOMMENDED TO HIM FOR DISPOSITION, FEBRUARY 24, 1936, AND NOVEMBER 18, 1936, BY THE Department of Labor (List recommended February 24, 1936) IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (St. Paul, Minn.) 1. Office copies of miscellaneous contracts and incidental correspondence; originals on file at central office; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 2. Correspondence re follow-ups on cases of debarred or excluded aliens. Originals and duplicates; prior to December 31, 1932. 3. Deportation party files, covering deportation parties; originals, carbons, and mimeographed; prior to December 31, 1932. 4. Transfer blanks covering aliens under custody in deportation proceedings, transferred or deported; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 5. Daily tally sheets and form Spl. 27 books, recording daily records of various classes of aliens and citizens admitted at ports of entry; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. 6. Semimonthly pay-roll reports from border offices or stations, or suboffices; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 7. Correspondence re detail and travel letters to officers or employees, and issuance of other letters of authority for purchases and services. Originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 8. Correspondence re verification of landing in connection with application for permits to reenter; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 9. Copies of central office transmittal letters for reentry permits, covering permits received and delivered; duplicates. 10. Miscellaneous correspondence regarding service property and requisitions therefor; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 11. Miscellaneous correspondence re service-uniform equipment; originals and carbons. 12. Rejection notices issued and received; carbons and/or mimeographed; prior to December 31, 1933. 13. Quarterly bond reports covering aliens admitted under bond at border ports; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. Of no 14. Miscellaneous correspondence re monthly time reports of employees. further value; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 15. Miscellaneous correspondence re refunds of head tax to aliens; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 16. Time reports of employees; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. 17. Reports of inspection of service uniforms; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 18. Reports of investigations, warrant activities, and voluntary departure of aliens, foreign, monthly; originals of reports; carbons of correspondence; prior to December 31, 1934. 19. Miscellaneous correspondence with reference to requests for information; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 20. Correspondence with reference to statistical reports re admitted or excluded aliens, or movement generally over international boundaries; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 21. Monthly statistical reports of aliens and citizen movement prepared by border ports; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 22. Lists of immigration visas surrendered at border ports; now obsolete as this information is recorded at each port of entry; originals and carbons. 23. Requisition for blank books, stationery and supplies, and incidental correspondence; carbons; prior to December 31, 1933. 24. Reports and correspondence re Government transportation requests. An up-to-date card record now maintained at district headquarters. This correspondence is of no value; carbons; prior to December 31, 1933. 25. Correspondence re issuance of railway and bus passes; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 26. Report on use of railway and bus annual passes; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 27. Miscellaneous correspondence re verification of arrival of aliens; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 28. Gasoline and oil records; no value; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 29. Government-owned vehicle record prepared monthly by suboffices; now taken up in headquarter's records; of no value; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 30. Copies of Bureau of Labor Statistics correspondence; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 31. Annual and sick leave applications granted; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. 32. Reports of prohibition agents on persons arrested, possibly subject to deportation; no value; carbons. 33. Property records filed; carbons; prior to December 31, 1930. 34. Daily reports, border patrol, Form 650; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. 35. Circulars re schools approved for immigrant students, etc.; superseded by pamphlet issued June 1, 1934; mimeographed; prior to June 1, 1934. 36. Confidential report from postmaster re character of applicant; originals; prior to July 1, 1930. 37. Statement of witness re character and residence of applicant for citizenship; originals; prior to July 1, 1930. 38. Report on naturalization hearing and correspondence; originals of forms; originals and copies of correspondence; prior to July 1, 1930. 39. Monthly report from clerk of court; carbons; prior to July 1, 1934. 40. Correspondence re applications for new certificates and certified copies of declarations of intention; originals and carbons; prior to July 1, 1934. 41. Monthly report of preliminary hearings; discontinued; originals and/or carbons; prior to July 1, 1934. 42. Miscellaneous correspondence relative to naturalization; originals and carbons; prior to July 1, 1934. 43. Copies of all vouchers covering travel of officers, purchases, and services; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 44. Miscellaneous financial reports and incidental correspondence;_originals of reports; originals and corbons of correspondence; prior to December 31, 1933. Galveston, Tex. (In district office and substations) 45. Employee's daily time report; permission requested to destroy those from January 1, 1928, to December 31, 1932; prior copies having been destroyed by authority of House Report No. 2919; originals; January 1, 1928, to December 31, 1932. 46. Copies of personal expense vouchers and correspondence incident thereto; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 47. Copies of miscellaneous expense vouchers and correspondence, bills, etc., incident thereto; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 48. Form 540, Application for Annual Leave; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. 49. Copies of requsitions for blank forms, stationery, supplies; copies of invoices and correspondence pertaining thereto; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 50. Copies of Form 596, Report of Inspection of Uniforms; carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 51. Copies of all forms, reports, and correspondence re maintenance of Govern ment-owned vehicles which have been turned in and are no longer in use; includes Form 600 and Form 666; originals and/or carbons. (In district offices only) 52. Copies of verifications of landing, requests therefor, and correspondence re same; copies up to January 1, 1928, were destroyed, authority of House Report 2919; authority requested to destroy same from January 1, 1928, to December 31, 1932; carbons; January 1, 1928, to December 31, 1932. 53. Correspondence file with substations re Government transportation requests; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 54. Statistical reports and correspondence incident thereto; originals and/or carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 55. Copies of head-tax reports and correspondence thereto; not needed after monthly and annual reports are compiled; originals and/or carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 56. Form Spl. 214, Miscellaneous Expense Card Record; now obsolete; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. 57. Correspondence file with substations re allotments and allotment reports; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1932. 58. Copies of Form 585, up to and including October 1934; all essential information transferred to card record, form discontinued in October of 1934; carbons; prior to October 1934. (At Border Patrol Subdistrict Headquarters) 59. Form 650, Daily Reports; not needed further back than 8 years; originals; prior to December 31, 1932. Spokane, Wash. 60. Applications for annual and sick leave and correspondence incident thereto; originals and carbons. 61. Form 618, Inspection of Persons Arriving by Automobile; originals. 62. Miscellaneous periodical reports from suboffice re matters of temporary interest only; carbons. 63. Reports on Forms 651 and 3138-S re investigations and warrant activities and detention of aliens, having only temporary value; carbons. 64. Daily and monthly time reports; carbons; prior to January 1, 1934. 65. Rejection and elimination notices; carbons; prior to January 1, 1934. 66. Copies of head tax bills, assessment reports, refund and transfer certificates; representing completed transactions; carbons; prior to January 1, 1934. 67. Reports and correspondence from prohibition officers; originals. 68. Copies of vouchers for purchases and services other than personal, on Form 1034a; copies of vouchers for reimbursement of travel and other expenses, on Form 1012a; correspondence relating thereto; carbons; prior to July 1, 1933. 69. Forms 598 D and F, expenditures and statement of accounts rendered under annual contracts and general authorization; Form 598 E, Statement of Liabilities on Government Transportation Requests; carbons; prior to July 1, 1933. 70. Copies of letters to railway companies requesting transportation for debarred aliens; carbons. 71. Circular notices reapproved schools for immigrant students, prior to July 20, 1929, when superseded by an up-to-date pamphlet; carbons; prior to July 20, 1929. 72. Requisitions for supplies and correspondence re same; carbons; prior to January 1, 1933. 73. Monthly reports on labor conditions and correspondence re same; duplicate originals or carbons of reports; originals and carbons of correspondence. 74. Periodical statistical reports and correspondence, quota law; mimeographed reports; carbons of correspondence. 75. Periodical reports and correspondence from field offices covering statistical and other data; carbon copies of reports; originals and carbons of correspondence; prior to January 1, 1934. 76. Terminated contracts and leases, with correspondence incident thereto; carbon copies of contracts and leases; original and carbon copies of correspondence; prior to July 1, 1933. 77. Monthly vehicle expense reports; originals; prior to January 1, 1934. 78. Form 643, Report of Work Performed by Border Patrol, and correspondence relative thereto; originals; prior to January 1, 1934. 79. Form 644, Receipt for Persons and Contraband by Border Patrol; originals; prior to January 1, 1934. 80. Report of apprehension of aliens on obsolete DO Form No. 3; carbons. 81. Form 668, Tire Records; originals; prior to January 1, 1934. 82. Form 667, Stock Record of Tires and Tubes; originals; prior to January 1 1934 Salt Lake City, Utah 83. Daily reports of examiners; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 84. Correspondence and reports relating to investigations of lost or destroyed naturalization papers; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 85. General correspondence and notices concerning depositions; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 86. General inquiries and replies; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 87. Correspondence concerning soldier certificates, now delivered; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 88. Covers and stubs of transportation-request books; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 89. Correspondence and reports re hearings attended by correspondence; originals and/or carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 90. Copies of all types of requisitions; originals and/or carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 91. Reports for law-enforcement officials as to character and reputation of applicants for citizenship; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 92. General correspondence with clerks of courts in routine matters; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 93. General correspondence with other districts in routine matters; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 94. Copies of monthly reports from clerks of courts; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 95. Memorandum of travel expenses, Form 2307; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 96. Derivative certificate cases which have been approved and certificates issued or otherwise closed; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 97. Old Forms 5-A, quarterly work reports; originals and/or carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 98. Central office Forms C-27 and related correspondece in closed cases; originals of forms; originals and carbon copies of correspondence; prior to December 31, 1934. 99. Lists and correspondence concerning naturalization hearing dates; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 100. Carbons of monthly leave reports; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 101. Carbons of pay-roll vouchers; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 102. Monthly reports of aliens arrested for violation of prohibition act; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 103. Carbon of monthly report of investigations, warrant activities, etc.; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 104. Carbons of various monthly reports relating to allotments, and correspondence pertaining thereto; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 105. Carbon of monthly reports of railway passes procured; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 106. Semiannual report of use of transportation request books; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 107. Carbon of monthly reports of classification of expenditures; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 108. Carbons of vouchers for reimbursement of travel expenses; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 109. Carbons of vouchers for purchases and services other than personal; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 110. Miscellaneous correspondence concerning accounts and vouchers; carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. 111. Copies of invoices for services and supplies which have been vouchered and paid; originals; prior to December 31, 1934. 112. Annual authorizations and correspondence relating thereto; originals and carbons; prior to December 31, 1934. |