AGENCY: Salt Lake City (Utah). City Recorder

SERIES: 83176
TITLE: Letter file indexes
DATES: 1904-1919.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological, thereunder alphabetical by department

DESCRIPTION: These eleven volumes are indexes to letters sent and received by city departments. There is one volume per year from 1904 to 1907 and 1916 to 1919, two for 1908, and one of two volumes for the year of 1912. They contain the date; name of the writer of letter; purpose of letter, file number; and remarks. The 1919 volume also contains a few loose papers dated 1919: a statement of appropriations and expenditures; a letter; a resolution levying taxes; a claim against the city for an employee being injured on the job.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series were specifically approved by the State Records Committee.

APPROVED: 12/1988

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 10 years and then transfer to State Archives with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This retention is based on the historical value of these records. Few of these letters have survived from this period, but the indexes provide in some detail the purpose the letters and document the issues being examined for those periods.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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