APPENDIX VI REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST FUND BOARD FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1948 The National Archives Trust Fund Board was created by an act of July 9, 1941 (U.S.C. 300aa-300jj), which authorizes the Board "to accept, receive, hold, and administer such gifts or bequests of money, securities, or other personal property, for the benefit of or in connection with the National Archives, its collections, or its services, as may be approved by the Board." The same act requires it to "submit to the Congress an annual report of the moneys, securities, and other personal property received and held by it and of its operations." At the beginning of the fiscal year the Board was composed of Solon J. Buck, Archivist of the United States, as chairman, Representative Edward H. Rees, chairman of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, and Senator William Langer, chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Late in the fiscal year Solon J. Buck resigned as Archivist of the United States and was succeeded by Wayne C. Grover, who replaced him as chairman of the Board. The National Archives Trust Fund contained at the beginning of the year the sum of $28,166, the balance of a gift of $30,000 received from Mr. and Mrs. Hall Clovis, of Greenwich, Conn., for the purpose of transferring the SmithsonianDensmore Collection of Indian sound recordings to a permanent base. During the year this collection was transferred from the National Archives to the Library of Congress with the understanding that the Library of Congress will complete the work of transferring the recordings to a permanent base, and the Board, with the consent of the donors, authorized the transfer from the National Archives Trust Fund to the Library of Congress of $28,166, the balance of the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clovis. On June 30, 1948, therefore, there was no balance in the fund. During the year two resolutions were submitted to members of the Board for signature. One resolution authorized the acceptance by the Board of a grant of $20,000 made by the Rockefeller Foundation for the benefit of the file-microcopy and records-reproduction programs of the National Archives and the other authorized the chairman of the Board to employ the necessary personnel for the activities of the Board without regard to civil service laws or regulations. An act of June 25, 1948 (Public, No. 784, 80th Cong.), amended section 8 of the National Archives Act of June 19, 1934, as amended, to provide that fees collected for reproduction services shall be paid into, administered, and expended as a part of the National Archives Trust Fund. WAYNE C. GROVER, Chairman. 59 APPENDIX VII REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS COMMISSION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1948 The National Historical Publications Commission was established by the National Archives Act, approved June 19, 1934, to "make plans, estimates and recommendations for such historical works and collections of sources as seem appropriate for publication and/or otherwise recording at the public expense." During the year under review there were two changes in the membership of the Commission. Wayne C. Grover, by succeeding Solon J. Buck as Archivist of the United States, became the ex-officio chairman of the Commission and Dr. Buck, by succeeding St. George L. Sioussat as Chief of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress, became an ex-officio member of the Commission. The other members at the end of the year were as follows: E. Wilder Spaulding, Historical Adviser and Chief of the Division of Publications, Department of State; Major General Harry J. Maloney, Chief of the Historical Division, United States Army Special Staff; Captain John B. Heffernan, Director of Naval History, Office of Public Relations, Department of the Navy; Dumas Malone, professor of American history, Columbia University; and Guy Stanton Ford, Executive Secretary of the American Historical Association and Managing Editor of the American Historical Review. The Commission held no meetings during the year, nor did it receive for consideration any proposals for publications. No personnel was available for work on the proposed publication by the National Archives of State Department diplomatic records for the period 1828-61 nor on the project to draft a bill for submission to Congress to authorize the publication of documents pertaining to the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 60 PHILIP M. HAMER. INDEX Accessioned records, disposal of, 11 Accounts Bureau records, 11 Administrative Procedure Act, 37 Agricultural Economics Bureau photo- Air conditioning, 19, 44 Air Force Department records, 7, 12 Alien Property Office records, 8 American Documentation Institute, 36 American republics, cooperation with, American University, 6, 35 Analysis and description of records, Annapolis, Hall of Records at, 36 Archives administration: training in, Archivist of the United States, 3, 9, Army Department: Records, 7, 12, 17; Arrangement of records, 23, 24 Authentication of documents, 45, 51, 53 Bahmer, Robert H., 42 Bill of Rights: Facsimile of, 25; on Bonneville Power Administration rec- Brazil, records relating to, 24 Buck, Solon J., 3-6, 23, 33, 34. See also Archivist of the United States. Buildings, plans for, 44 Business records and histories, 30 Caribbean countries, cooperation with, Cash awards to employees, 41 Censorship Office records, 29 Central Intelligence Agency, enemy Certification of documents, 51 Checklists of records, 5 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail- Civil Service Commission, registers, Civil War, research on, 29 Civilian Conservation Corps records, 23 Cleaning records, 19 Clipper ships, 30 Clovis, Mr. and Mrs. Hall, 59 Daughters of the American Revolu- Disposal of records, 1, 4, 7-9, 10-12. District of Columbia, District Court Dominican Republic: Records relating Economy and Efficiency Commission Efficiency Bureau records, 28 Employment, records relating to, 29 Engineer Chief's Office records, 17 Examinations for archivist positions, Executive orders, 38; concerning Fed- Exhibits and Information Officer, 39 Expenditures, 44 Extension Service records, 23 Facsimiles, 25 Farben Co., I. G., seized records of, 28 Gandhi, Mahatma, recording of speech, General Accounting Office records, 11 General Reference Branch, 39 George VI, recordings of broadcasts Georgia, exhibit honoring, 33 Goebbels, sound recordings of speeches, Gold Rush, records relating to, 29 Grants, 3, 25, 59 Grover, Wayne C., 3, 42, 59. See also Guides to records: In the National Hamer, Elizabeth E., 33. See also Ex- Handbook of World War II records, Hanna, A. J., and Kathryn A., 29 Harvard University, 12 Historical Division of the Special Histories of the war, 42 Hitler, recordings of broadcasts by, 18 Hoover Commission, 10, 28 Housing Expediter's Office: Records, Hydrographic Office records, 17 Illinois Central Railroad, historical Immigration and Naturalization Serv- India: Trainee from, 9, 23, 35; records Indian Claims Commission, 28 Information: Derived from records, 1, Interagency Records Administration Inter-Asian Relations Conference, re- Interdepartmental Committee on Sci- Interior Department records, 23, 24 Lacy, Dan M., 42 Laminating records, 20 Legislation: appropriations, 44, 52; Legislative Reference Service, 28 Librarian of Congress, 58 Library, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 3, 37, Library of Congress, 3, 9, 42, 43, 45; Lincoln, Abraham, documents relating Lists of records: as finding aids, 5, 23, Loyalty investigations, 26, 42 McCool, Ollan D., 58 Mahoning Valley, iron and steel in- Mail and Messenger Section, 39 Maps and charts, 9, 17, 19, 29 24 Medicine and Surgery Bureau records, Membership in societies, 43 Microfilming of records, 9; file micro- Military-post records, 29 Monetary relations, studies of inter- Morrow, James, journal of, 29 Mussolini, recordings of broadcasts National Archives Act, 49-52; amend- National Archives Building, 19, 43, 50, |