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av pai y ed (295.14 Renee 31 of the Bureeu's eppropri a Z, 77500000 ; bes? thich toteled 32/978520, was BSS Identificetion Division a Tle Identification Division of the United States Bureau of _ investigation is meinteined at Weshington, D. C., and wes established on July 1, 1924, to operete as e netionel clearing house of identification oe data. At the dete of its inception, it tegan with approximately 899,000 fingerprint resords whith had comprised the collections of the bureau mainteined at the United States Penitentiery, Leavenworth, Kansas, end of the Netionel Burecu of Criminsl Identificetion, Weshington, D. C., which hsd been opercted by the Internttional associetion of Chiefs of Police. Since its estatlishment in 1924, the Identification Division . os of the United Stites Pure-u of Investigrtion his hed e« phenomenal a froren. During the fiserl yerr of 1932 tlone, it received over 573,000 fingerprint errds. On Fetruery l, 1933, there were more than 3,386, 000° Tinger- , print records cn file, representing the lerpest and most complete collection of criminsl fingerprint records of current value existing enywhere in the world. This division now receives criminal identification date from over 5,390 eontributors in the United States and foreign ecuntries, end receives more then 2,900 fingerprint cards each dey, ee replying to eech of these cards within 36 hours,