Government Archives, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 48 pages |
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ANDREWS archivists asked Auditor authority basement bill board of record BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS certified copies CHAIRMAN Claims Building clerk commission COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC construction cost Cox Building cubic feet DENNETT deputy record keeper designs and estimates destroyed documents Dresden erection ernment Europe executive departments expense files fireproof floor gentlemen GEORGE SUTHERLAND hearing historical value House of Representatives HUNT ISAAC STEPHENSON Jameson Land Office LELAND Library of Congress London LOTHROP WITHINGTON manuscript matter ment MILES POINDEXTER Miss CHILES national archives building needs papers places Post Office present printed books proper PUBLIC BUILDINGS public business public record office purpose question receipts record commissioners refer rental rented Secretary Senator CULBERSON Senator MARTINE Senator POINDEXTER Senator REED Senator SWANSON Senator WETMORE speak square stacks STATEMENT stored Street tion transaction Treasury Building Treasury Department UNITED STATES SENATE vouchers War Department WILMETH Winder Building
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Page 6 - Dr. J. Franklin Jameson, director of the Department of Historical Research in the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Page 48 - shall collect from public archives and private manuscript collections abroad and in the United States abstracts or copies of important documents illustrating American history and the early history of the United States.
Page 5 - ... estimates have been approved by a commission consisting of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of the Interior, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in his discretion, to purchase, or cause to be taken for public use, by condemnation or otherwise, as a site for said building, any piece of land of the size defined in this section the purchase...
Page 5 - That before the said designs and estimates are completed inspection shall be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury of the best modern national archive buildings in Europe, and consultation shall be had with the best authorities in Europe on the construction and arrangement of archive buildings.
Page 5 - Whenever the designs and estimates have been approved by a commission consisting of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House...
Page 5 - ... cubic feet of space, suitable for the orderly storage of records, documents, and other papers which have accumulated in the various departments, independent establishments, and executive offices and in the files of the benate and House of Representatives and are not needed for current use.
Page 5 - ... buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes. Sec. 32. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to prepare designs and estimates for a fireproof building of modern office-building type of architecture .to be erected on square numbered one hundred and forty-three,...
Page 41 - S. 5179 A BILL DIRECTING THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO PREPARE DESIGNS AND ESTIMATES FOR AND REPORT COST OF A NATIONAL ARCHIVES BUILDING IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA...
Page 16 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, what I have to say will be in confirmation and extending to some extent the statement of Mr.
Page 5 - A BILL Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare designs and estimates for and report cost of a national archives building in the District of Columbia.