General Records of the General Accounting Office (GAO).

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General Records of the General Accounting Office (GAO).

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These include chiefly selected contracts, leases, and agreements made by or on behalf of civilian agencies, 1921-1926, and military agencies, 1922-26, with related indexes. Civilian contracts comprise mainly those for construction and equipping of lighthouse tenders and Coast Guard vessels, naval air stations, helium production plants, public buildings and monuments, and repairs to waterways; rental or purchase of special machinery and scientific equipment; and granting grazing and water rights on public lands by the Department of the Interior. Military contracts consist chiefly of those for design and construction of lighter- and heavier-than-air craft and roads and railroads, development of a coastal defense system, leases of land on military reservations, and research on explosives. These contracts and indexes are part of a larger series of contracts dating from 1894.

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