obligated at the beginning of the fiscal year 1946. During the year $2 was obligated and the balance of $931 was refunded to the general appropriation. The sum of $4,498 was received for photographic reproductions of documents and for authentications and was covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. The National Archives Trust Fund Board, which was established by an act approved July 9, 1941, received no additional funds and obligated no funds during the year. The Trust Fund balance therefore remained $28,166 on June 30. The annual report of the Board comprises appendix V of this report. The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1947, approved March 28, 1946 (60 Stat. 72), provided for the National Archives $1,047,935 for salaries and expenses and $15,000 for printing and binding for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1947. APPENDIX I RECENT LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 1 ACT CONCERNING THE DISPOSAL OF RECORDS, APPROVED JULY 7, 1943, as AMENDED JULY 6, 1945 [57 Stat. 380-383; 59 Stat. 434] An Act to provide for the disposal of certain records of the United States Government. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when used in this Act, the word "records" includes all books, papers, maps, photographs, or other documentary materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received by any agency of the United States Government in pursuance of Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the Government or because of the informational value of data contained therein. Library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications and of processed documents are not included within the definition of the word "records" as used in this Act. SEC. 2. The National Archives Council shall promulgate regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, establishing (1) procedures for the compiling and submitting to the Archivist of the United States of lists and schedules of records proposed for disposal, (2) procedures for the disposal of records authorized for disposal, and (3) standards for the reproduction of records by photographic or microphotographic processes with a view to the disposal of the original records. Such regulations, when approved by the President, shall be binding on all agencies of the United States Government. SEC. 3. The head of each agency of the United States Government shall submit to the Archivist of the United States, in accordance with regulations promulgated as provided in section 2 of this Act (1) lists of any records in the custody of the agency that have been photographed or microphotographed in accordance with the said regulations and that, as a consequence thereof, do not appear to have sufficient value to warrant their further preservation by the 1 Other legislation still in force concerning the National Archives, including the National Archives Act, as amended (44 U. S. C. 300-300k), the Federal Register Act (44 U. S. C. 301-314), and the resolution establishing the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (53 Stat. 1062-1066), is printed in the Fifth Annual Report of the Archivist of the United States, 55-66; the act providing for the distribution of Government publications to the National Archives (44 U. S. C. 215a) is printed in the First Annual Report, 46; and the act establishing the National Archives Trust Fund Board (44 U. S. C. 300aa-300jj) and the act suspending for the duration of the war certain requirements of the Federal Register Act (44 U. S. C. 311a) are printed in the Eighth Annual Report, 51, 55. |