Records of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

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Records of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance.

Bureau records consist of administrative records relating to the organization and operation of the Trading With the Enemy Section of the Bureau; correspondence with applicants for licenses; reports (including exhibits) made by the Bureau, the War Trade Board, the Alien Property Custodian, and American consuls abroad, concerning applicants; correspondence with Federal agencies and State governments, concerning licensing, operating, and liquidating foreign insurance companies; applications for licenses; records of licenses granted; and copies of laws, proposed legislation, regulations, decisions, Executive orders, and proclamations relating to control of foreign insurance companies.

12 linear ft.

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United States. Bureau of War Risk Insurance

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United States. Department of the Treasury

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The Department of the Treasury was created by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 65), approved September 2, 1789. The orginal act established the Department to superintend the manage the National finances. This act charged the Secretary of the Treasury with the preparation of plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and the support of public credit. It further provided that the Secretary should prescribe the forms for keeping and rendering all manner of public accounts and for the ma...