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ae a w ey YY each? Celery ye! a tant cane b satyerte deal Through economies effected in the operetion of the Bureeu, the sum of $289,992.31 of the Bureau's eppropriation for the year 1932, which toteled 32,978,520, was returned to the Treasury es savings. Identification Division ' The Identification Division of the United States Bureau of... oe Investigation is meint tained at Weshington, D. C., and was established on July 1, 1924, to operete as ea netionsl clearing house of identification . data. At the dete of its inception, it regan with approximately 890 ,000 fingerprint records which had comprised the collections of the bureau meinteined at the United States Penitentiery, Leavenworth, Kanses, end of the Netionel Bureeu of Criminsl Identificetion, Woshington, D. C., which hud been opercted ty the Intern:tioncl Associetion of Chiefs of Police. | | Since its estatlishment in 19%, the Identification Division of the United St::tes Pure-u of Investigetion hes hed e« phenomenal growtn. During the fiserl yerr of 1932 elone, it received over 573,000 fingerprint er rds. , On February 1, 1933, there were mcre then 3,536,000 finger- print records cn file, representing the lergest and most complete colle tion of eriminal fingerprint records of current value existing enywhere in the world. This division now receives criminal identification date fror. over 5,390 contributors in the United States end foreign ecuntries, end receives more then 2,000 tineerprint cerds each day, replying to each of these cards within 36 hours. irri antereaen dine peneeneinediens ache at oe nee nee