(Daily, official.) tration. Filed by schedule number. 9 x 12 folders, 6. CONTRACTS, 1935 to date. Contracts with firms and individuals for services, supplies, materials, and equipment of all kinds for projects of the WPA in North Carolina and Rural Resettlement in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Filed by contract number. (Daily, official.) 9 x 12 folders, 16 ft., in 8 metal filing case drawers. R. 216. (2114) 7. CORRESPONDENCE, LOANS, PROJECTS, TRANSMITTAL SHEETS, SCHEDULE OF D IS BURSEMENTS, AND PAID VOUCHERS, 1935 to date. Records of Rural Resettlement in Virginia, West Virginia; Tennessee, and Kentucky, general correspondence with Washington and state officials, data on loans, information on the operation and management of all projects, record of expenditures for travel, pay rolls, and supplies and equipment for projects, and schedule of funds disbursed, with reasons therefor. Filed numerically. (Daily, official.) 9 x 12 folders, 90 ft., in 45 metal filing case drawers. R. 216. 8. TRANSMITTAL SHEETS, current. Transmittal sheets for all papers covering expenditures incurred in the operation and management of WPA projects in North Carolina; cleared monthly to transfer cases and stored. Filed by administrative areas. (Daily, official.) 9 x 12 folders, 4 ft., in 2 metal filing case drawers. R. 216. (2115) STATE DISBURS ING OFFICE Sir Walter Hotel, Fayetteville St. State Disbursing Office No. 32 was established June 26, 1935, under Executive Order 7034 of May 6, 1935. It discharges disbursing functions for practically all government agencies in the state allotted emergency relief funds, and discharges any other disbursing duties assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury. In the case of the Farm Security Administration (formerly the Resettlement Administration) the office discharges disbursing functions for Region IV, composed of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. It reports direct to Washington and has no branch offices. From June 26 to July 30, 1935, it was located in the old Commercial National Bank Building, and in the Raleigh Building from July 30, 1935, to August 1, 1936, when it was moved to its present location. 9. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, June 1935 to date. Correspondence with Washington, state officials of the WPA, federal agencies, and individual payees relative to disbursement of funds. Filed alphabetically by subject. (Daily, official.) 8 x 11 folders, 8 ft., in 4 metal filing case drawers. State Disbursing Office. (2125) 10. RECEIPTS FOR CHECKS, June 1935 to date. Paymasters' receipts for checks issued to workers on projects of the WPA, the Rural Resettlement in the states comprising Region IV, and all other federal agencies in North Carolina receiving benefit under emergency relief funds. Filed numerically. (Daily, official.) 9 x 18 bundles, 100 ft., on wooden and metal shelves. State Disbursing Office. (2126) COAST GUARD The main duties of the service are as follows: to render assistance to vessels in distress and to save life and property on the seas and navigable waters of the country; to prevent smuggling and to enforce customs, navigation, and other marine laws; to patrol waterways for the purpose of removing obstructions to navigation; to extend medical and surgical aid to crews of American vessels engaged in deep-sea fishing; to investigate and compile statistics of marine disasters; to render flood relief on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and their tributaries; and to maintain for the carrying out of the above purposes, boats, life-saving stations, and air stations. Ibrth Carolina is in the seventh district of the Norfolk Division of the Eastern Area. The Eastern Area office, under a commander and his staff, who plan, organize, and direct all activities within the area, is located in New York City. The division office, through which the district office in North Carolina reports to Washington, is located in Norfolk, Va. It has jurisdiction from the Delaware-Maryland to the North Carolina-South Carolina boundary lines. The office of the seventh district, which extends from Cape Henry, Va., to the South Carolina line, is located in Elizabeth City, N. C. All stations located on the coast of North Carolina report to this office. Of these, sixteen are active and twelve have been decommissioned. The oldest were established in 1874, by authority of an act of the Forty-Third Congress, dated June 20, 1874, "to provide for the establishment of life-saving stations and houses of refuge upon the sea and lake coasts of the United States, and to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service. nl The Forty-Third Congress also appropriated funds for one superintendent on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina and for new life-saving stations, sites for which were to be purchased by the Secretary of the Treasury. 2 Additional life-saving and life-boat stations have been established by authority of acts of Congress, notably: an act of 1878 to organize the Life-Saving Service, in which provision was made to establish fifteen additional life-saving and life-boat stations on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina; an act of 1882 providing for the establishment of three additional stations on the coast of North Carolina; and an act of 1902 providing for the establishment of a life-saving station on Ocracoke Island." ing 3 4 1. U.S. Statutes at Large, XVIII, 125. 2. Ibid., XVIII, 205 and 371-372. 3. Ibid., XX, 163. 4. Ibid., XXII, 56. 5. Ibid., XXXII, 101. |