The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-06
RECORDS OF The LATE War
Annual Report of the Board of
Publication.
Over Fifty Thousand Surplus Vol
umos on Hand at the Close of
the Last Fiscal Year.

The report OF the board of public3 ton
Confederate Armies was given out today
at the War Department.
The following notes of the work during
the wear are OF interest:
Eleven thousand copies each OF Volumes
as, Part IL: 40, Parts | and III, and so.
Parts | and IL, we've printed and dis
tribGted during the year.
Supplemental Volumes LII, in two parts,
LII, in three parts, aud LII were pat in
type during 'he year. These five volumes
are made up of official records that came
into the possession of the department subsc
qucnt To tie publication of the volumes in
which the records would have appeared had
| they been 5hen accessible.
geaerai index. in two volumes, of all
the matter embraced in these books and in
the Aaas is well advanced and Will proha
hiy be pL ,iShed about the close or the pres
| ent fiscal year.
The work of selection OF matter for
| Tt.s |, III and ", and it, compilation.
have continued during the year, aud sew
eral volumes OF each series are ready for
publication. The present estimate of the
TUX OF records remaining unpublished is
Series II, eight hooks Series III, eight
I,pok>. Series Nv, four books total twenty
books
There were Received from the printing
office d5,lT0 volumes OF records; dis
trihuted and sold, 43,G5s volumes OF
records: received from printer, l4,39i
parts of a llas. distributed and sold l9 lis
parts If Atlas; letters To the number Of
upward or z 900 respecting distribution
were received and answered; 1894 letters,
cards and circulars respecting the worS
were seat out; G5 ZOO address labels were
prepared and verified.
The sales of the work during the wear
covered .615 volumes of records AMI 94u
parts Of atlas, and he proceeds, amounting
20 81 ,95i.s4, were deposited in the Treas
ur-. D required by law. Thesumof 5 .15l
was received from subscribers for hind
ing. iris sum was paid to the Public
Pr,ntar Ipon bills rendered for binding
The Records ana atlas.
The .,ci of June 4. 1897. to provide for
the sundry civil expenses of the Govern
ment, provided for the supply by the Seer a.
tary of War to each Senator, Representa-
tive snd Delegate of he Fifty-fourth Con
gress, WHO was not then receiving the
publication. a complete set of the War
record; and the incomplete and unclaimed
sets on maud in the Department Were made
available for his purpose.
In order to carry out tbis provision il
became Necessary to have a limited edition
reprinted froH the electrotype plates of
certain volumes aud ma ps, a. the number
vr hand in the department was Inadequate
to rake M tie 200 sets that were needed
TO supply those Senators Representatives.
and Delegates who had hot previously
received tie Records. The cost of these
reprints will be betrayed from the APP
propriajpE Tor the last fiscal yeat. De
livery Of the books viii be made as soon
the binding can he completed by the Public
Printer.
The rumber OF surplus volumes on hand
on June 80, 1897. consisting OF broken
sets, uucalied for by the beueficiaries for
" hem they were intended, aud including in
this category such as still remain of the
700 sets that were set aside for sales BY
the act az August Z. 1882, numbered
57,s15 Sales continued under the law
just cie@d but there can be no general
distribution of the surplus volumes save
by the authority OF Congress.