forms of evidence were also forwarded. Property schedules were unnecessary as indigency was not a requirement for the award of a revolutionary war bounty-land warrant. A claimant whose application was approved was issued a warrant for a specified number of acres. He could then "locate" his warrant; that is, he could select the portion of the public domain that he wished to have in exchange for his warrant. The Treasury Department, and after 1849 the Interior Department, accepted the warrants and issued patents to the land. Many recipients of revolutionary war bounty-land warrants did not choose to locate the warrants and to settle on the public domain; instead, they remained in their old homes and sold the warrants.

These records contain both historical and genealogical information. Historical information pertaining to the organization of military units, movement of troops, details of battles and campaigns, and activities of individuals, may be obtained from application statements of veterans, from affidavits of witnesses, and from the muster rolls, diaries, orders, or orderly books that were occasionally submitted as proofs of service and were not sent by the Bureau of Pensions to other government departments or agencies. Naval and privateer operations are documented by applications, affidavits, and orders on some files based on service at sea. A few files contain letters written to or by soldiers and sailors during the revolutionary war, which give firsthand account of military, naval, and civil events and conditions. Furloughs, passes, pay receipts, enlistment papers, commissions, warrants, and other original records of the period from 1775 to 1783 are also in some of the files. Generally, the records described have not been reproduced in microfilm publication M805 unless they also contain. genealogical information.

Genealogical information is usually available in a file containing original application papers. A veteran's pension application normally gives-in addition to his former

rank, unit, and period of service-his age or date of birth, his residence, and sometimes his birthplace. Property schedules often give names and ages of a veteran's wife and children. The application of a widow seeking a pension or a bounty-land warrant may give her age, residence, maiden name, date and place of her marriage, and date and place of death of her husband. A copy of a marriage record made by a town clerk, a clergyman, or a justice of the peace often accompanied the widow's pension application. Application papers submitted by children and other heirs or dependents seeking pensions or bounty-land warrants generally contain information about their ages and residence. Family record pages from Bibles and other books submitted by pension and bounty-land-warrant applications give the dates of birth, marriage, and death of family members. Final payment vouchers that sometimes contain information about the date and place of a pensioner's death and names of his heirs are in a few pension files.

The files, with the exception of "Former Widow" cross-reference cards are arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of the veteran. When two or more veterans have the same surname and given name, the further arrangement of the files based on their service is generally alphabetical by state or organization for which a veteran served, or by the word "Continental," "Navy," or some other service designation placed in the heading of some files above or before the name of a state. "Former Widow" cross-reference cards are arranged by the surname that the former widow acquired upon remarriage. Within each file the records are unarranged.

Consolidated files of pension and bountyland-warrant applications and related papers are numerous, and the contents vary. Almost any combination of two or more pension and bounty-land warrant files already described may have been consolidated. Frequently, a widow's approved pension application papers are consolidated

with approved bounty-land-warrant application papers relating to a claim made by her under the act of 1855. The resultant consolidated file bears a heading that includes both "W" and "B. L. Wt." symbols and numbers. Approved pension applications of veterans were consolidated with approved bounty-land-warrant applications of veterans or their heirs to form files with headings consisting of "S" and "B. L. Wt." symbols and numbers. Rejected pension application files may also contain approved or rejected bounty-land-warrant applica tion papers.

The names of most of the servicemen for whom there are pension or bounty-landwarrant application files reproduced in the two microfilm publications are listed in the National Genealogical Society's Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications (Washington, D. C., 1966). This index will be revised soon to reflect changes in arrangement and additions and corrections made since the original publication. Additional published finding aids to this series are contained in the congressional documents serial set available in most government depository libraries and now available in reprint editions. These include American State Papers (Washington, D. C., 1834),

Class IX, Claims; U.S., War Department, Letter from the Secretary of War, Communicating a Transcript of the Pension List of the United States... June 1, 1813 (Washington, D. C., 1813); U.S., War Department, Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting a Report of the Names, Rank, and Line, of Every Person Placed on the Pension List, In Pursuance of the Act of the 18th March, 1818... (Washington, D. C., 1820); U.S., War Department, Report from the Secretary of War . . . in relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States (Washington, D. C., 1835); U.S., Department of State, A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services. under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census (Washington, D. C., 1841); U.S., Department of Interior, Report of the Secretary of the Interior, with a Statement of Rejected and Suspended Applications for Pension (Washington, D. C., 1852); and U.S., Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1833 (Washington, D. C., 1883). ☐

Information in this article is based on the introduction to Revolutionary War Pension and BountyLand Application Files (M 804) which was prepared by Howard H. Wehmann and which appears on each roll of the microfilm.

The administrator of general services is authorized by law to accept for accessioning as part of the National Archives of the United States the records of a federal agency or the Congress that the archivist of the United States judges to have sufficient historical or other value to warrant their continued preservation by the United States government. In addition, certain personal papers and privately produced audiovisual materials that relate to federal activities may also be accepted. Normally, only records at least twenty years old are considered for transfer; the chief exceptions are essential documentary sources of federal actions and the records of terminated agencies.

Excluded from the recent accessions described below are those that only fill minor gaps or extend the date span of records already in the custody of the National Archives and Records Service. As noted, some of the accessions have been made by the archives branches of the federal archives and records centers and by the presidential libraries.

Bench and Bar

The regional archives branches of the federal archives and records centers have received records of U.S. attorneys and marshals for various U.S. judicial districts. These records had previously been in the National Archives Building.

The branch at New York received fortyseven cubic feet: case files, 1847-1918, register of common law cases, 1843-45, and correspondence, 1821-78 with gaps, of the U.S.

attorney for the Southern District of New York; and letters received by the U.S. marshal for this district, 1845-48 and 1868.

The branch at Atlanta received twentyseven cubic feet: dockets, case files, and correspondence, 1826-1921 with gaps, one volume of letters sent by the U.S. marshal for this district, 1885-87; U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama; and case files, 1919-41, and correspondence, 1921-32, of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

The branch at Chicago received six cubic feet: dockets, 1882-85, evidence in Indian land allotment fraud cases, 1910-12, letters sent, 1876-87, and letters received, 1869-99, of the U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota; also case files, 1892-1908, and correspondence, 1894-98 and 1903-08, of the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.

The branch at Kansas City received six cubic feet: grand jury dockets, 1886-1932, grand jury minutes, 1876-1918, and letters sent, 1853-61 and 1863-89, of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.

The branch at Fort Worth received six cubic feet of grand jury dockets and minutes for the Fort Smith, Texarkana, Harrison, and El Dorado divisions of the office of the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, 1895-1935 with gaps.

The branch at Philadelphia received sixteen cubic feet of case files of the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1911-43.

The branch at San Francisco received five cubic feet of neutrality case files of the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, 1913-20.

The branch at Los Angeles received two cubic feet: correspondence of the U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, 1903-10 and 1911-12; and correspondence of the U.S. marshal for the District of Arizona concerning Indian cases, 1917-23.

The Archives Branch, Chicago Federal Archives and Records Center, has accessioned fifty-six cubic feet of records of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Freeport Office. The records consist of civil case files, 1938-46; criminal case files, 1906-45; law and equity case files, 1906-38; and docket books, 1905-47.

The branch at Chicago has also accessioned 208 cubic feet of records of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago Office. The records consist of transcript files of civil cases, 1939-55, and transcript files of bankruptcy cases,

1938-55.

The branch at Chicago has also accessioned 170 cubic feet of records of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Detroit Office. The records consist of admiralty dockets, 1844-1907; bankruptcy dockets, 1841-43, 1867-78, and 1898-1952; civil dockets, 1837-1939; criminal dockets, 1851-1926; and miscellaneous dockets, 1815-1940.

The Cartographic Archives Division received from the Supreme Court about 250 documents from original jurisdiction cases of the period 1910 to 1951. Included are town plans, river and lake charts, and county and state maps. Among the cases represented are political boundary disputes between Kansas and Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Texas, and Vermont and New Hampshire.

The National Archives has accessioned one cubic foot of manuscripts and source material relating to the preparation, for the Lyndon B. Johnson Library, of the administrative history of the Department of Jus

tice during the Johnson administration. Included are separate histories for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, the Bureau of Prisons, the Community Relations Service, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Civil Rights Division.

The Diplomatic Branch has accessioned the laws of the Ninety-second Congress, 1971-72.

War and Peace

The Old Military Branch has accessioned two cubic feet of records of Colonel Samuel P. Lee. He was superintendent and subassistant commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands at Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters for the Tenth Subdistrict of Virginia from March 1867 to December 1868 and the Sixth Education Subdistrict of Virginia from January to April 1869. The records contain letters sent, cash books, retained property returns, stores returns, reports of persons and articles hired, receipts, letters received, and records relating to the Industrial School.

Other records of the accession pertain to Lee's duties as military commissioner, Nineteenth Division of Virginia, in 1868 and 1869. These records consist of letters sent, press copies of letters sent, registers of letters received, and letters received.

Still other records of the accession pertain to Lee's duties as assistant commissary of subsistence for Indians at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, in 1869 and 1870. These records consist of letters sent, a register of letters received, letters received, and retained reports.

The Old Military Branch has accessioned assorted correspondence and other papers, mostly of the Civil War period and pertaining to the Union and Confederate armies and navies, as a gift from the Library of

the Boston Athenaeum. Among the more notable items are a collection of papers relating to the knapsack invented and patented by Joseph Short; diaries of Union hospital chaplain Lemuel G. Olmstead and Union naval surgeon George E. Frances; papers relating to the military career of Major John C. Gray, Jr., judge advocate, Military Department of the South; and private letters of Union soldiers.

The Old Military Branch has accessioned two cubic feet of records of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine, consisting of two volumes of burial records, 1882-1932 and 1935-38; one volume of death records, 1893-99; and three volumes of posthumous fund account books, 1889-1905 and 18911931.

The Modern Military Branch accessioned eighteen cubic feet of records accumulated by elements of the Manhattan Engineer District stationed in Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1942-47, and the Office of Santa Fe Directed Operations, 1947-48. The accession consists of correspondence, reports, issuances, and similar administrative records. The records include information about site selection and the manufacture of the first atomic weapons.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff recently transferred to the Modern Military Branch sixty cubic feet of records that document the planning and operations of both the Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff in the early postwar period, 1946 to 1948. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have completed a security. review of the records, and the majority of the documents have been declassified and are now open for research.

The Modern Military Branch also accessioned a record set of issuances of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1950-58, and the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, 1958-61. The records include

bulletins, general orders, circulars, and manuals.

Cost of Living

The Industrial and Social Branch has accessioned 266 cubic feet of schedules of the Study of Consumer Purchases, 1935-36, a cooperative venture of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Agriculture, the Works Progress Administration, and the National Resources Committee.

Among congressional records recently received by the National Archives are seventyeight cubic feet of records of the National Commission on Consumer Finance, established by the Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1968, popularly known as the Truthin-Lending Act, to study the operations of the consumer finance business and consumer credit transactions in general. The commission report of December 31, 1972, to the president and Congress found that a truly competitive consumer market would provide optimum benefits to the consumer, recommended additional protection to the consumer against the abuse of creditors' remedies, and proposed enhanced enforcement of the Truth-in-Lending Act and expanded statutory and administrative authority over creditors. The records consist of the commission's report, minutes, transcripts of hearings, correspondence, studies. by staff members and outside experts, magnetic tapes, computer printouts, and reference materials.

Recently accessioned by the Archives Branch, Kansas City Federal Archives and Records Center, are rosters of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service for the Sixth District of Missouri. These records offer information about the organization of the Internal Revenue Service in the period 1881 to 1921 and contain some genealogical information about individuals.