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 archive in Washington is being proposed to keep such matters from the administrative departments as being out of active use are apt to be put out of reach or destroyed.

In the modern world to be sure one commonly associates archives also with folded documents and rolls, or with written documents and registers, while libraries are associated with bound and printed books but this is artificial and in the ancient world there was no such distinction between books and papers. For that matter, of course, many modern public documents—reports, proceedings, bills, laws, reports of cases, etc., etc., are printed and bound, even if not published, and if all the papers of an archive were printed and bound it would be clear enough that they were books and that an archive was simply a library of authenticated public documents. Some of the technical treatises on archives, in