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€ a ec in the opéretion o e Bureeu, oe aura 9 #3 of the Bureeuts epproprietion for the year . a . BRA S00, oo ieee; which toteled eee was returned to the ‘Treasury as s savings. Identification Division | . Tle identification Division of the United States purest of 7 71 ape » -investigation is meintained at Weshington, -D. C., an and wes esteblished po ‘on July 1, 1924, to operate as e@ netional clearing house of identification - deta. At the dete of its inception, it tegan with epproximeately 890,000 . vos fingerprint resoris which had comprised the collections of the bureeu méinteined at the United States Penitentiery, Leavenworth, Kanses, end of the Netionel Bureeu of Crimingl Identification, Weshington, D. C., which hid been opercted by the Internstioncl Associetion of Chiefs of * Police. Since its estatlishment in 1994, the Identification Division of the United St:tes Puresu of Investigetion has hed e phenomenal. growth. During the fiserl yesr of 19 oon it received over 673-000 ” Sus, ‘ ra eee UA, KE — fingerprint eoris”~~~ vr Cw ; 1, 1923 3,621,000 On February 1, 1933, there were more than 3, 386 ,000 finger-- print records on file, representing the largest and most complete liection of criminal fingerprint records of current value existing ‘anywhere in the world. This division now receives criminal identification &§& Joo ook date from over 5,390 contributors in _the United States end ‘foreign ; re ccuntries, end receives more then 2,000 fineerprint cerds each dey, replying to eech of these cards within 36 hours.