24 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

them and wrote to the Board of Public Works recommending that
they be destroyed.

On January 13, 1948, the Division of Unemployment Compensation
of the Department of Employment Security offered us certain records
for 1942 which were similar to those that had been previously destroyed.
The offer was rejected, and authority to destroy the records was
granted subsequently by the Board of Public Works. In a letter dated
March 8? 1948, we were notified by the Division that the following
materials had been destroyed by maceration:

Earnings Cards, 1942, 1,200 boxes.

Benefit Cards, Series of "C" checks, 1942, 60 boxes.

Employer Folders, 1942, 40 boxes.

Employer Pay Rolls and other miscellaneous items, 1942, all
destroyed (quantity not specified).

On March 16, 1948, the State Tax Commission offered for deposit
in the Hall of Records the following materials:

Certification of Incorporation
Amendments thereto
Stock Issuance Statements
Agreements of Merger
Articles of Reduction
Articles of Revival
Articles of Dissolution, and
Statements of Trust Receipt Financing.

The papers dated from 1941 to 1947 and totaled about 13,900 docu-
ments, each averaging about five to eight pages. Each document had
been recorded by the Commission and also by the Clerk of the Court
in the county where the principal office of the corporation is located.

The Archivist refused to accept the records because he did not
consider them old enough to justify storage in the Hall of Records.
He pointed out that the material could not be destroyed because it was
less than five years old and also because the Board of Public Works
had already ruled that the Commission could not destroy "charter
records and other records which ought to be retained permanently."