DISPOSITION OF USELESS PAPERS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FEBRUARY 12, 1931.-Ordered to be printed Mr. WASON, from the Joint Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, submitted the following REPORT [Useless papers in the Department of Commerce] 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 were referred the reports of the heads of departments, bureaus, etc., in respect to the accumulation therein of old and useless files of papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current business therein, respectively, and have no permanent value or historical interest, with accompanying statements of the condition and character of such papers, 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 follows: Your committee have met, and, by a subcommittee appointed by your committee, carefully and fully examined the said report so referred to your committee and the statements of the condition and the character of such files and papers therein described, and we find and report that the files and papers described in the report of the Department of Commerce, dated December 6, 1930, to the Seventieth Congress, third session, are not needed in the transaction of the current business of such department and bureaus and have no permanent value or historical interest. We recommend that, as required by law, the Department of Commerce sell as waste paper or otherwise dispose of such files of papers 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. MY DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize and provide for the disposition of useless papers in the executive departments," approved February 16, 1889, as amended by the act approved March 2, 1895, I have the honor to report that there is in this department an accumulation of documents and files of papers which are not needed nor useful in the transaction of the current business of the department, as shown by the accompanying statement. The list herein referred to has been submitted to the Librarian of Congress, in accordance with the Executive order of March 16, 1912, who reports that the papers in question do not appear to have any historical value. It is therefore recommended that authority be granted for the disposition of the documents and files of papers mentioned, so that they may be sold as waste paper or otherwise disposed of in accordance with law. A similar letter has been addressed to the President of the Senate. E. F. MORGAN. Acting Secretary of Commerce. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Office of the chief clerk: Receipts for letters prior to January 1, 1930. · Correspondence relating to transportation reservations, refunds, freight rates and charges, tracers, and departmental exports, prior to January 1, 1929. Appointment division: Correspondence, Lighthouse Service, regarding authorization and abolishment of positions, etc., prior to 1913. Copies of reports to Civil Service Commission of changes in personnel prior to 1925. Applications for appointments and transfers prior to July 1, 1929. Applications for annual, sick, and without-pay leave for employees of the office of the Secretary for the year 1929. Applications for without-pay and extended sick leave for employees of the bureaus of the department for the year 1929. Original appointments and recommendations received during calendar year 1928 which have been canceled. Inquiries received during calendar year 1928 concerning persons not found on the records of the department. Division of publications: Correspondence from January, 1929, to December, 1929, with the several bureaus and the Superintendent of Documents relative to the status of the department's publications. Requests for copies of publications, June, 1927, to December, 1929. Correspondence relating to mailing list work, January, 1929, to December, 1929. Record of remittances, January, 1929, to December, 1929, transmitted to the Superintendent of Documents. Correspondence relating to illustrations to accompany publications dated from January, 1928, to December, 1928. Division of publications-Continued. Public Printer's statements, monthly statements to bureaus, and correspondence relating to allotments for printing and binding for the fiscal years 1913 to 1920, inclusive. Estimates for printing and binding, personnel, and contingent for the fiscal years 1913 to 1920, inclusive. Individual leave slips from January, 1925, to December, 1927, inclusive. Bureau requests for newspaper advertising and carbon copies of authorities for published advertisements dated January, 1928, to December, 1928. Division of supplies: Allotment control sheets, 1926. Proposals Nos. 15720 to 17330, inclusive, January to December 28, 1926, inclusive. Classified expenditure records, 1926. Ledger records, 1926. Memorandum bills of lading Nos. 68823 to 77246, from November, 1924, to Voucher memo copies of invoices, 1926. Copies of reimbursable bills, 1926. Orders, 1926. Requisitions, 1926. Office correspondence, 1926. Allotment records, 1926. Stock and shipping section copies of orders, 1926. Requisitions for blank forms, 1926. Requisitions for printed stationery, stock books, and blanks, 1926. Stock and shipping section copies of purchase invoices, 1926. Stock and shipping section copies of morning reports, 1926. Receipts, 1925 and 1926. Supervisor of radio, Atlanta, Ga.: RADIO DIVISION Amateur radio station licenses expiring prior to January 1, 1929 Supervisor of radio, Boston, Mass.: Amateur operators' station licenses prior to July 1, 1926, Form 765: Applications for amateur operators' licenses, Form 756, prior to July 1, 1926. Records of commercial operators, the licenses of which expired prior to Applications for ship station licenses, Form 761, prior to July 1, 1926. Records of ship inspections, Form 771. and accompanying correspondence. prior to July 1, 1926. Records of commercial broadcasting and experimental radio stations, the licenses of which expired prior to July 1, 1926. Applications for commercial broadcasting and experimental station licenses, Form 761, and accompanying correspondence, prior to July 1, 1926. General correspondence and statistical reports prior to July 1, 1926. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS Manufactures schedules for the year 1925. Correspondence with States and cities in the death-registration area tor 1928 and earlier years. Memoranda between the division of vital statistics and the chief clerk's and director's offices prior to 1920. Miscellaneous committees prior to 1928. Birth certificates, 1925 to 1927, inclusive. Death certificates, 1920 to 1927, inclusive. etc., 1925. products, merchant mills, 13,000 schedules, boot and shoe manufacturers, 1925. 1922-1924. 500 correspondence, hides, skins and leather, and wheat ground and wheatmilling products, 1929. 2,400 correspondence, agriculture, 1917-1924. 4 cases gang punch scheme, 1920 (copies). 7 cases examination slips (hand count), 1920. 10 cases enumerator's applications, test papers (mostly incompletes and failures to pass), etc., 1929. 6,371,640 schedules, agriculture farm, 1925. Mines and quarries schedules for the year 1919. PATENT OFFICE 1 bulk of reproduction letters, December 31, 1923, to December 31, 1927, inclusive. 16 divisional memoranda of drawings loaned to lithographers. April, 1921, to December, 1926. 4 bundles of photostat record of trade-mark renewals, 1922 to 1925, inclusive. 1 book, orders for manuscript copies, 1894. General correspondence, 1925, requests for publications or information concerning activities of the Patent Office. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION Duplicate marine documents, 1928-29. Report of arrival and departure of American vessels (consular Form 120), 1928–29. Duplicates of change of name letters, 1927-1929. List of change of names of vessels (Form 6), 1925-1927. Reports of number of passengers counted (Form 1463), 1928-29. . Certificates of payment of tonnage tax (Form 1002), 1927-28. Certificates of settlement (Form 1081), 1928-29. Statements of vessels built, lost, etc. (Form 1200), 1927-28. Abstracts of marine documents issued and surrendered (Form 1202), 1927-28. Manuscript copy of merchant vessels of the United States, 1929. Request for publications to July 1, 1928. Division of administration: BUREAU OF FISHERIES Tissue copies of routine correspondence office of accounts, 1924-1927. Tissue extra copies of notices of salary increases under Welch Act, 1928. Scrapbook of copies of obsolete bureau circular orders, 1903-1917. Notebooks, stenographic (15) office of accounts containing notes of routine matters, 1928-29. Government salary tables, 1920, obsolete. United States Daily, newspaper, 1929-30. Reports of overtime, 1929 to June 30, 1930. Requests for publications, fiscal year 1929. Requests for publications, congressional, fiscal year 1929. Requests for publications, foreign, fiscal year 1929. Applications for positions, 1925-1929. Reports of expenditures, 1920, 1922-1926. Routine correspondence re applications for leave, 1917-1929. Routine correspondence, deputy commissioner files, 1924-1927. Memoranda re purchases through division of supplies, 1929. Routine correspondence, commissioner's office, 1928. Notebooks listing outgoing registered mail, 1926–1928. Routine correspondence re ice patrol service, 1916-1919. Leave of absence card records, field, 1914-1928. Leave of absence card records, District of Columbia, 1914-1928. Division of Alaska fisheries: Agent's orders on storekeeper, Pribilof Islands, 1920. Correspondence re fiscal matters, 1923-1926. Contacts and supplies, Pribilof Islands, 1916-1925. Invoices for mate rial and supplies, Pribilof Islands, 1911-12, 1919-1922 1924-25. Routine correspondence, 1918-1927. Duplicate copies of fisheries hearings, 1917 and 1920. Sealskin grading records, 1925-1928. Division of Alaska fisheries-Continued. Sealskin certificates, 1916-1921 and 1926. Requisitions and correspondence re Pribilof Islands, supplies, 1924. Fiscal records, Pribilof Islands, 1913-1916. Extra copies All Alaska Review, 1929 (issued by Cordova Daily Times). Division of fishery industries: Carbon copy and printer's copy annual report, 1928. Carbon copy and printer's copy annual report, 1926, 1927. Carbon copies of portions of annual reports for 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922. Rough statistical data and correspondence with statistical agents, 1924–1926. Copies of routine letters to outside parties, 1905–1917. Division of vessels: Vessel allotments, acted on, 1929. Monthly reports of vessels, 1929. Division of fish culture: Station pay rolls, 1927, extra copies (originals filed Department of Commerce). Temporary labor reports, 1922, 1925-1929. Requests for fish applications, 1925-1927. Temperature reports, 1925-1928. Copies of proposals for material, 1921-1928. Messengers' monthly report card, 1917. Reports of shipments of fish and eggs, cards, to 1927. Collection of fish at rescue stations, cards, to 1927. Messenger trip reports, 1925-1928. Messenger mileage reports, 1926 and 1927. Canceled applications for fish, 1924. Applications for fish, filled, 1927-28. Applications for fish (copies), filled, 1927-28. Vessel expenditure reports, 1919, 1922, 1923. Routine correspondence, distribution service, 1925-1929. Receipts for fish, cards, 1928. Station reports of fish raised, cards, 1920-1928. Transfer of fish between stations, cards, 1926-27. Distribution of fish, cost slips, to 1927. Statement of distribution of fish, to 1927. Station superintendent's monthly report, 1924-1928. Station superintendent's annual report, 1889-1924. Repairs to distribution cars, to 1924. Routine correspondence with distribution agents, 1921. Log, fisheries cars Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1906-1916 (cars out of service). Division of scientific inquiry: Divisional correspondence re Routine, 1911-1928. Key West Station, 1918-1927. San Francisco office, 1924-1926. North American committee fishery investigations, 1928. McMillan arctic exploration trip, 1925. Lee Popham's activities at Apalachicola, Fla., re oyster farming, 1925. New exploring vessel for bureau, 1925. Fairport laboratory, 1924-1928. Beaufort laboratory, 1906-1928. Woods Hole laboratory, 1917-1928. Investigations Oysters re Connecticut waters, 1916-1928. Bermuda, 1925. Great Lakes, 1925-1928. Sponge, 1895-1911. |