ARCHIVIST OF THE HALL OF RECORDS 17

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY

On July 13, 1949, the Comptroller offered us the following records
with the recommendation that they were not worth saving:

Transmittals, fiscal year 1944.

Payrolls, fiscal years 1936-1939.

The Archivist refused the records and requested that the following
ledgers be included in the list of materials to be destroyed when the per-
mission of the Board of Public Works to do so was sought:

Legislative Accounts Ledgers, Committee of Claims, for sessions of
1876-1904, 19224927, 1933-1936, 1941-1945, 12 volumes.

These volumes had already been transferred to the Hall of Records
and had been found to be duplicates of similar ledgers kept by the Comp-
troller's Office. Permission to destroy these materials was granted by the
Board of Public Works on August 2, 1949. The certificate of destruction
is dated September 28, 1949.

Another group of records was offered to us by the Comptroller's
Office on June 19, 1950. They are as follows:

Payrolls, 19404944.
Disbursements, fiscal year 1945.

As similar records have been destroyed in the past, the Archivist saw
no reason for accepting these and has refused to accept them.

COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY, RETAIL SALES TAX DIVISION

The Retail Sales Tax Division requested permission on July 26, 1949,
to transfer to the Hall of Records a large collection of its records. The
Archivist was forced to refuse these records because of our limited space
and because the records were of no historical significance. However, he
pointed out that the materials were less than three years old and therefore
not yet eligible for destruction.

CROWNSVILLE STATE HOSPITAL

Certain records of the Crownsville State Hospital were offered to the
Hall of Records on March 27, 1950. An examination of the records in-
dicated they were not worth preserving and the Archivist declined to accept
them on March 29, 1950. Authorisation for destruction was granted by the
Board of Public Works on June 13, 1950. The certificate of destruction is