the interdepartmental Joint Information Board on Minerals and Derivatives, created in 1918 to coordinate and distribute information concerning minerals important for war purposes; and of the Committee on Mineral Imports and Exports of the U.S. Shipping Board, which operated in 1919 to plan a program for restricting mineral imports and exports to conserve shipping space.

See Fred W. Powell, The Bureau of Mines (New York, 1922).

There are 3,181 cubic feet of records dated between 1895 and 1955 in this record group.

GENERAL RECORDS. 1910-50. 3,447 lin. ft. (in WNRC).

Included are central correspondence, with indexes, 1910-50, and records relating to Bureau organization; general policy; legislation; rules and regulations; cooperative relationships with other Government agencies and private institutions; rescue and general fieldwork; mining operations, safety, and health; management and labor; ores and ore dressing; metallurgy; helium; mineral technology; fuel lands and their leasing; coal technology; lignite; peat; Government fuel yards; petroleum and natural gas; and activities of the War Minerals Division of Mineral Division, the Resources and Statistics, field stations, and laboratories.

DIVISION AND FIELD RECORDS. 1895-1954. 382 lin. ft. and 230 rolls of microfilm.

Included are reports, correspondence, statistical data, and reference files of the Divisions of Explosives Regulation, 1917-21, Explosives, 1926-33, Coal Economics, 1907-48, Petroleum and Fuel, 1905-45, Foreign Activities ("foreign company reports file"), 1913-45, Minerals, 1917-53, and Mineral Production Security, 1941-45; and Branches of Non

al Economics, 1905-54, Construction

and Chemical Materials, 1923-54, and Health and Safety, 1911-49.

Miscellaneous records of the Bureau include coal production tabulation sheets, 1900-1937; petroleum information files, 1915-30; blueprints and drawings relating to helium and early helium development; war gas investigation reports, 1917-18; negative microfilm copies (230 rolls) of employment and accident schedules, 1915-35; coal mine inspection releases, 1942-49; a public works file, 1934-41, relating to construction of Federal projects and a point 4 program file, 1950-51; records of the Tin, Lead, and Zinc Division of the War Production Board, 1942-47; and records of the Division of Mineral Resources of the Geological Survey, 1895-1925, the Coal Division of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 1920-25, the Joint Information Board on Minerals and Derivatives, 1918, and the Committee on Mineral Imports and Exports, 1918.

CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1908-55. 576 items.

Cartographic records (241 items) consist of maps of the United States and of individual States, showing distribution of mineral deposits, locations of mines, and graphic statistical data relating to economic aspects of the mining industry, 1908-44; maps of the world, showing petroleum marketing systems and distribution of oil reserves, 1919; a map of the United States, showing natural gas pipelines and plants, 1929; and maps of the United States, showing production, by State, of metallic ores and bituminous coals, 1928-29.

Audiovisual records include photographs (100 items) of Chemical Warfare Service tests of war gases and gas masks at the American University Experiment Station, Washington, D.C., 1917-18.

Motion pictures, 1913-39 (235 reels), relate to mining methods, processing, refining, manufacturing, products, and

use of nickel, silver, lead, iron, copper, aluminum, magnesium, sulfur, clay, asbestos, carborundum, and sillimanite, 1919-38 and ca. 1943; coal mining methods, 1919-38; oil well drilling and petroleum refining chiefly in the United States and Mexico, 1923-36; drilling rocks and quarrying sandstone, granite, and limestone for portland cement, 1915-31; automobile manufacturing and assembly, including explanations of internal combustion engines and automobile lubrication, 1926-36; manufacturing, testing, and using dynamite, electric detonators and meters, safety glass, spark plugs, steel, storage batteries, valves, and watches, 1922-38; employing steam, water, and electric power, 192228 and ca. 1943; and using the oxyacetylene torch, 1922 and 1938. There are films used in Bureau safety and health education programs concerning industry, 1913-17; gas, fires, dust explosions, handling equipment, and excavating in coal mines, and shoring, blasting, handling equipment, and loading ore in metal mines, 1914-30; oil well fires and oil industry safety, 1923-24; carbon monoxide poisoning, 1928; rescue and first aid, 1915-31; traffic, 1924 and 1937; and sani

tation in mining towns. There are films about the natural resources and scenery of Arizona and Texas, and national parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain, and Shenandoah, 1925-55. Also included is news coverage of the Royalton, Ill., mine disaster, 1914; the testing of railway guns at Fort Story, Va., 1929; and of President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard the U.S.S. Houston, arriving at Cartagena, Colombia, 1934.

SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS

Records: Statistical tabulations of sales, production, employment, and accidents in mineral industries; microfilm copies of the schedules from which some of these tabulations were made; and monthly reports of fatalities in coal mines submitted by State agencies.

Restrictions: Use of these records is restricted to employees of the Bureau of Mines and to persons authorized to consult them by appropriate Bureau officials.

Specified by: Bureau of Mines.

Under the 1899 Treaty of Berlin the seven eastern islands of Samoa were to be a U.S. possession and Western Samoa a German possession. The treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate on February 16, 1900. An Executive order placed American Samoa under control of the Department of the Navy and directed the Secretary of the Navy to take necessary steps to establish U.S. authority and give the islands protection. U.S. naval control of American Samoa lasted until June 29, 1951, when, by Executive order, the President transferred control

to the Department of the Interior. In 1960 the Secretary of the Interior approved a constitution for American Samoa.

There are 155 cubic feet of records dated between 1899 and 1966 (in FRC San Francisco) in this record group:

RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF
THE GOVERNOR. 1900-1961.
94 lin. ft.

These consist of annual reports of the Governor to the Secretary of the Navy, 1902-51; regulations, proclamations, and

orders issued by the Governor, 19001956; compilations of the laws and regulations of American Samoa, 1900-1946; general correspondence file, 1900-1958; general subject file, 1941-61; records relating to the Samoan legislative body (Fono) and copies of its proceedings, 1902-49; special studies of Samoa prepared by the Governor's office, 1912, 1916, and 1940; copies of speeches of the Governors and documents relating to special ceremonies, 1908-56; and other records, including correspondence with U.S. Presidents, a journal, 1900, of the activities of the Commandant's office, and copies of treaties and agreements, 1900-1948. Also included are copies of proceedings of a special congressional commission to investigate Samoa and recommend legislation, 1930; correspondence, petitions, and other records concerning charges made against Gov. Waldo Evans, 1921-27; copies of records of investigative bodies, 1947-53; records relating to the motor vessel Samoa, 1942-47; four color plates of designs for the Samoan flag, 1960; and World War II intelligence files, 1941-45.

RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF
THE SECRETARY OF NATIVE
AFFAIRS AND SUCCESSOR
AGENCIES. 1900-1966. 31 lin. ft.

The Office of the Secretary of Native Affairs was created in 1903 under the direction of the naval governor of American Samoa. This Office directed the judiciary, acted as liaison between the naval governor and the Samoan people, and supervised district governors, judges, magistrates, police, the copra industry, and collection of taxes. It was abolished in 1931. Administrative duties were taken over by the newly created Office of the Attorney General, and a separate judicial branch was created under a chief justice. The records comprise general files of the Office of the Secretary of Native Affairs and successors, 1907-66, annual reports of the Secretary of Native Affairs, 1901 and 1905

25, regulations and orders issued by the Government of American Samoa, 19001946, copies of proceedings of the Fono, 1905-47, and miscellaneous records of the Secretary of Native Affairs, 190237. Also included are census returns, 1900-1945, and applications for claims against the U.S. Government for damages caused by U.S. Marines, 1953. RECORDS OF THE HIGH COURT. 1899-1962. 8 lin. ft.

These consist of criminal and civil case files, 1901-29; probate case files, 190245; copies of wills, 1906-61; papers concerning the bankruptcy of E. W. Carr, first Secretary of Native Affairs, 18991908; a list of persons committed to prison, 1904-30; copies of contracts between Samoans and merchants, 1905-25; alien registration forms, 1940; petitions for naturalization, 1946; petitions for divorce and copies of divorce orders, 1900-1962; and correspondence of the Clerk of the High Court, 1951-52. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. 19001965. 54 lin. ft.

The records comprise a general correspondence file, 1931-64, a correspondence file relating primarily to district and village matters, 1939-55, outgoing letters, 1942-63, a register of letters received, 1949-58 and 1961, and copies of regulations and orders issued by the Government of American Samoa, 193861. Also included are police investigative case files, 1932-62; police station logbooks, 1957 and 1962; daily record of prisoners, expenditures for prison mess, and arrest records, 1935-51; copies of immigration and emigration rules and regulations, 1934-61; records concerning immigration and emigration, 1937-65; copies of proceedings, correspondence, and other records of various boards and commissions, 1941-59; records documenting prices received for copra and showing prices paid to producers and names of contractors, 1908-48; and copies of personnel records, 1900-1963.

was created by an act of March 3, 1887, to examine the affairs of Pacific railroads that had received Federal aid. The commissioners submitted their report to the President in December 1887. The records of the Commission were transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, who placed them with the Commissioner of Railroads.

The records consist of correspondence, April-October 1887, testimony and exhibits, answers of Leland Stanford as president of the Central Pacific Railroad to questions sent by the commissioners, and reference material, 1875-87.

See Marion M. Johnson, comp., Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Commissioner of Railroads, PI 158 (1964).

From the time the United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 to the passage of an act of May 17, 1884, there was no formal civil government in Alaska. Limited control of the area was exercised by the U.S. Army, 186777; the Department of the Treasury through the Collector of Customs at Sitka, other collectors, and the RevenueCutter Service, ca. 1877-79; and the Department of the Navy, 1879-84.

The 1884 act provided for the civil government of Alaska under a Governor, established the temporary seat of that government at Sitka, and conferred district status on Alaska. It also empowered the Secretary of the Interior to regulate the enforcement of Federal laws relating to mining claims and provide for education in the area. Under an act of July 24, 1897, a surveyor general was appointed for the U.S. District of Alaska. Homestead laws were extended to the District and provisions were made for railroad rights-of-way by an act of May 14, 1898. An act of June 6, 1900, assigned to the civil government responsibility for the care of the insane under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Provisions of that act also extended and defined the organization of the civil government and the courts. Alaska was

formally designated a U.S. Territory and its capital was established at Juneau by an act of August 24, 1912. The Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of July 28, 1956, transferred the Interior Department's responsibility for the care of the insane to the Territorial government. Provisions for admitting Alaska into the Union as a State were included in an act of July 7, 1958, and the formal admission was completed January 3, 1959, under Presidential Proclamation 3269.

There are 297 cubic feet of records (in FRC Seattle) dated between 1884 and 1958 in this record group.

RECORDS. 1884-1958. 356 lin. ft.

These include the Executive Office central file ("Term of Office File"), 18841920; administrative records, 1885-1912; the Governors' annual reports, 1917-57; letters received and sent by the Secretary of Alaska, 1900-1913; general correspondence, 1909-58; Territorial government legislative records, records, 1913-39; reports from surveys and studies, 191058; records relating to emergency relief programs, 1934-41, and to the Alaska rural rehabilitation project, 1935-49; expenditure and accounting records, 1913-52; and correspondence relating to the care of the insane, 1905-33.