Collecting Documentary Material Significant to U.S. History: Hearing ... 88-2 ... March 11, 19641964 - 104 pages |
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88th Congress Adams papers Administrative Services Act advisory committees agencies American Historical Association American history appropriated Archivist authorize bill BOUTIN Boyd Chairman CLAIBORNE PELL collection Commission's Committee on Government compiling Congressman Continental Congress contribution copy D.C. DEAR documentary source material editor Federal funds Federal Government Federal Property foundations Franklin Government Operations grants GROVER Gunston Hall Henry historians historical documents Historical Publications Commission House of Representatives important institutions Jameson Jefferson papers John leader legislation letter letterpress publication Library of Congress Madison manuscripts Massachusetts Historical Society ment microfilm MUMFORD National Archives National Historical Publications NHPC Papers of Thomas past present President projects Property and Administrative proposed publication of documentary recommendations record SCHLESINGER scholarly scholars scholarship SCHWENGEL Senator PEARSON Senator PELL source material significant sponsored statement STINSON subcommittee Thank Thomas Jefferson tion U.S. Senate underway United University volumes Washington William writing
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Page 17 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Page 18 - ... but their successors shall be appointed for terms of five years each, except that any individual chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whom he shall succeed.
Page 1 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
Page 74 - States, who shall be its chairman; the historical adviser of the Department of State; the chief of the historical section of the War Department, General Staff; the superintendent of naval records in the Navy Department; the Chief of the Division of Manuscripts in the Library of Congress; and two members of the American Historical Association appointed...
Page 62 - Register is a component of the National Archives and Records Service of the General Services Administration.
Page 30 - The lost cannot be recovered ; but let us save what remains ; not by vaults and locks, which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of Copies as shall place them beyond the reach of accident...
Page 18 - Commission which shall make plans, estimates, and recommendations for such historical works and collections of sources as seem appropriate for publication and/or otherwise recording at the public expense...
Page 75 - ... that the Secretary of State, the Librarian of Congress, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a commission whose duty it shall be to report to Congress the character and value of the historical and other manuscripts belonging to the Government of the United States, and what method and policy should be pursued in regard to editing and publishing the same, or any of them.
Page 62 - Commission shall also cooperate with and encourage appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies and nongovernmental institutions, societies, and individuals in collecting and preserving and, when it deems such action to be desirable, in editing and publishing the papers of outstanding citizens of the United States...