DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS  .—From timh to

time all the government departments, with the exception of the India Office, deposit such papers as they wish to preserve in the Public Record Office; thus the Treasury, Home Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Admiralty, War Office, Local Government Board and Board of Trade have all placed important papers in the care of the Master of the Rolls . A calendar of the earlier Treasury Papers, which extends from 1660 to 1668 and 1720 to 1745 has been published; also a list of the Admiralty Records (No . XVII.) . For each department a limiting date is fixed from time to time; documents before that time are open to students; later ones are only accessible under special conditions .