of the Armed Forces against lapse because of nonpayment of premiums. The Bureau was abolished and its functions and records were transferred to the Veterans' Bureau on August 9, 1921. All accounts with insurers concerned with "civil relief" protection of life insurance were terminated by June 30, 1924. Records of World War I veterans relating to war risk insurance benefits are also among the records of the Bureau of War Risk Litigation (see RG 190), among which are files created by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the Treasury Department, the Veterans' Bureau, and the Veterans Administration dating from 1919 that were inherited and continued by the Bureau of War Risk Litigation when it was established in the Department of Justice in 1933. The records consist of general correspondence of the Director and Assistant Director, 1914-31, and the Advisory Board, 1914-21; administrative correspondence of the Allotment and Allowance Division, 1918-34; records of the Marine, Seamen's, and Civil Relief Sections, 1914-22; correspondence and other records of the Insurance Division of the Veterans' Bureau, 1914-17; administrative and claims files of the War Risk Section, Line of Communications, American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-24; and some records relating to claims brought before the Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany. The "diary" of the Paris office is with records of the American Expeditionary Forces (see RG 120). VOCATIONAL-REHABILITATION The program for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled veterans of World War I, administered from 1918 to 1921 by the Federal Board for Vocational Education and by the Veterans' Bureau until 1928, was carried out by the Rehabilitation Division. The records consist of training-center files, trainee record cards, sample regional office training case files, district and regional files, and files of correspondence with educational institutions, hospitals, private business organizations, welfare and veterans organizations, and field, medical, placement, and other Division officers. Also included are bulletins, general orders, regulations and field orders, and numerous small files of correspondence and reports. RECORDS RELATING TO These records include many originally accumulated in the War, Treasury, Navy, and Interior Departments, all of which at one time had the function of adjudicating claims for pensions and bounty lands. They include correspondence of the Commissioner of Pensions and his predecessors from 1800 to 1866; correspondence relating to claims filed under special congressional acts of 1828, 1832, and 1853; and letters sent by the Commissioners of the Navy Pension Fund, 1800-1809 and 1813-16. Pension application files cover service in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican, Civil, Spanish-American, and Indian Wars, and other military operations to 1917. Revolutionary War service case files consist of pension and bounty land applications filed between 1800 and 1900, claims for half-pay-for-life and pensions filed between 1800 and 1859, and disapproved applications. War of 1812 service case files consist of pension and bounty land applications filed between 1812 and 1910. Mexican War service case files consist of applications filed between 1847 and 1930, approved filed and disapproved applications between 1887 and 1926, and approved and disapproved applications by dependents and widows. Miscellaneous applications for the period before 1861 include files based on service between 1783 and 1861 and submitted between 1800 and 1930, case files of bounty land applications for the period 1812 to 1855, and claims by Indians for the period 1812 to 1855. For case files based on service before 1865 there is a card register of application and certificate numbers. With the exception of certain limited series, the Civil War and Spanish-American War pension applications are filed together. These records consist of approved and disapproved pension applications based on service chiefly in these two wars filed between 1861 and 1934 and covering both Army and Navy service after 1910. Pension applications of widows and dependents consist of approved and disapproved applications. Naval files consist of approved and disapproved pension applications of Navy veterans submitted between the years 1861 and 1910. Case files of pension applications of widows and dependents consist of approved and disapproved claims. There are microfilm indexes (2,811 rolls) to most of these case files, and a card index of names of remarried widows. Pension application files for service in the Indian wars cover the period from 1892 to 1926. These files consist of veterans', widows', and dependents' approved and disapproved pension applications. There are case files of pension applications arising out of new claims filed after 1934 for service from 1817 to 1917 and 1921 to 1940 (exclusive of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and World War I), with indexes, 1861-1942. There are also bounty land records that consist of an incomplete list of bounty land applications (filed ca. 1800-1900), registers of bounty land claims filed and warrants issued from 1800 to 1912, and stubs and duplicates of bounty land warrant and scrip certificates, 1803-97. Other records consist of Navy Department claims, correspondence, and accounts relating to naval and privateer service pensions from 1800 to 1900; War Department miscellaneous correspondence, reports, and records for the years 1812 to 1913; scrapbooks, 1773-1919; administrative orders, pension board decisions, and other records relating to bounty land warrants from 1813 to 1875; and registers, 1865-1900. Individual case files contain birth, marriage, and death records, copies of military records, medical histories, personal histories of dependents, affidavits and testimonials, correspondence, examiners' reports, and decisions of adjudicating agencies. Many of these accompanying papers are of earlier or later date than the dates of applications. FINANCIAL RECORDS. 1805-1933. 2,639 lin. ft. These records consist of pension agency payment books, 1805-1909, with a card index; pension payment rolls of Army veterans, their widows and dependents for the years 1857-76, pension rolls of Navy veterans and their dependents, 1860-76, ledgers of pension accounts for the years 1890-1921, appropriation accounts for the years 18911908, and pension payment cards, 1907 33. Also included are many pension applications, certificates, and lists and registers of pensioners, most of which are registers of pension certificates issued to Army and Navy veterans between 1816 and 1914 and to widows and other dependents between 1862 and 1914; lists of veterans and dependents pensioned under laws enacted between 1818 and 1853; and registers of applications by veterans who served after March 4, 1861, with similar registers for depend ents. RECORDS RELATING TO VETERANS' HOMES. 1866-1938. 237 lin. ft. Legislation of 1865, 1866, and 1873 established a National Home for Disa bled Volunteer Soldiers. There were 10 branch homes and a sanitarium (all administered by a Board of Managers) by 1930 when they were transferred to the Veterans Administration to be operated by its Homes Service. There are records of the homes at Dayton, Ohio, 1867-1935; Danville, Ill., 1898-1934; Togus, Maine, 1866-1934; Marion, Ind., 1890-1931; Johnson City, Tenn., 190334; Milwaukee, Wis., 1867-1934; Sawtelle, Calif., 1888-1933; Roseburg, Oreg., 1894-1937; Hampton, Va., 1871-1938; and Leavenworth, Kans., 1885-1934. There are also records of the Battle Mountain Sanitarium in Hot Springs, S. Dak., 1907-34; and the home for soldiers and sailors at Bath, N.Y., a State home that passed into Federal hands in 1932. The records include registers of members, with indexes; sample case files of members; and proceedings, correspondence, memorandums, reports, and other administrative records of the councils of administration or governors of the branch homes. 1890 CENSUS SCHEDULES ENUMERATING UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS. 1890. 23 lin. ft. The act of March 1, 1889, authorizing the 11th decennial census, provided for a special enumeration of Union survivors or their widows, and legislation of 1894 directed that the resulting schedules be transferred to the Commissioner of Pensions. These records are arranged alphabetically by State and thereunder by county. The schedules for the first half of the alphabet were destroyed by fire; those that remain are for States from Kentucky through Wyoming. These schedules list Civil War Union veterans of all services, or their widows, residing in the United States on June 1, 1890. Each veteran is recorded by name, residence, rank, company, regiment or Navy vessel, dates of service, and any incurred disability. RECORDS RELATING TO ISSUANCE OF PROSTHETIC APPLIANCES. 1862-1935. 291 lin. ft. (in WNRC). The first provision for supplying disabled veterans with prosthetic appliances was made by an act of July 16, 1862. Legislation in 1872 and 1879 extended this service to trusses. A cash commutation was available to veterans in lieu of such appliances until legislation in 1933 and 1944 ended the practice. The Surgeon General of the Army administered this function until December 1, 1930, when it was transferred with related records to the VA. Most extensive are the case files relating to applications for prosthetic appliances or commutation in lieu thereof, 1862-1933, including applications, correspondence, pension certificates, medical reports, and other records. There are also record books and registers of claims for prosthetic and other appliances and their issuance; and correspondence relating to approved and disapproved applications, 1875-1935. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1861-1960. 1,704 items. Still pictures (1,677 items) include photographs of Commissioners of Pensions, 1861-1925; photographs relating to the rehabilitation program of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, 191828, and VA rehabilitation activities, 1945-60; photographs of VA facilities and construction projects, including plans and architectural drawings for some hospitals, 1932-60; photographs of the Pension Building, 1883-85, and a Liberty Loan mass meeting in Washington, D.C., 1917; and a color lithograph of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloon in Philadelphia, ca. 1860. There are motion pictures (27 reels) showing the work of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, 1919, the organization of the VA in 1946, and educational, financial, medical, and rehabilitation services. See Thayer M. Boardman, Myra R. Trever, and Louise W. Southwick, comps., Preliminary Inventory of the Administrative Records of the Bureau of Pensions and the Pension Service, PI 55 (1953). Microfilm Publications: For a complete listing see the current List of National Archives Microfilm Publications. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Claims records based on service terminated less than 75 years ago. Restrictions: No disclosure shall be made from these records of any information that would be detrimental to the veteran or prejudicial, so far as may be apparent, to the interests of any living person or to the interests of the Government. No confidential communications among them, including medical evidence, summaries and rec ommendations of inspectors or field examiners, and reports relating to criminal charges and investigations or to evidence obtained in cases involving departments, bureaus, or other agencies, shall be made available to the general public. No statement regarding military service shall be supplied from them except for service as claimed by the veteran. Specified by: Administrator of Veterans Affairs. a DISCONTINUED INDEPENDENT AGENCIES From World War I to 1933 RECORDS OF THE ALLIED PURCHASING COMMISSION (RECORD GROUP 113) Under an act of April 24, 1917, arrangements were made between the Secretary of the Treasury and representatives of France, Great Britain, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Italy, and the National Czechoslovak Council for the establishment of credits and the purchase of supplies by nations at war with the Central Powers. By agreements with France, Great Britain, and Russia in August 1917, the Allied Purchasing Commission, consisting of three members, was established to handle applications to purchase supplies in the United States. The Commission members were also members of the War Industries Board (see RG 61). The Commission met with representatives of the Allied Governments and officials of the War Industries Board, the War Trade Board, and the Treasury Department to discuss requirements, priorities, prices, and supply and transportation problems. When agreements were terminated by mutual consent in December 1918, the Chairman of the Commission resigned, and some of its personnel and all of its records were transferred to the Treasury Department. The last report on Commission business was completed in May 1919. There are 14 cubic feet of records dated between 1917 and 1919, with a few as early as 1914, in this record group. RECORDS. 1917-19. 17 lin. ft. These consist of minutes, with indexes and historical summaries of operations and procedures; correspondence; summaries of applications approved and canceled; lists, tabulations, and statements of contracts let, completed, or canceled; consolidated statements by the InterAlly Council on War Purchases and Finance of orders placed and requirements estimated; a register of orders and applications, with indexes by country and commodity; schedules of expenditures from U.S. Government credits, relating to purchases by Allied war missions; and a statement and general summary relating to Russian contracts. See Preliminary Inventory of the War Industries Board Records, PI 1 (1941). RECORDS OF THE CAPITAL ISSUES COMMITTEE A Capital Issues Committee of three members was created within the Federal Reserve Board in January 1918 to prevent, through voluntary regulation, the diversion of capital to unessential projects. In May 1918 it was replaced by a new Capital Issues Committee of seven members appointed by the President under authority of the War Finance Corporation Act of April 5, 1918. This Committee was authorized to determine whether proposed security issues were compatible with the national interest. Much of the work of the Committee was decentralized and assigned to subcommittees in each Federal Reserve district. The Committee suspended its activities on December 31, 1918. A Presidential |