Community Correspondence - Letter from Cape Cod Massachusetts resident Curtis B Pierson to the BRAC Commission regarding a resolution he is presenting in support of Otis Air National Guard Base.

Community Correspondence - Letter from Boston, Massachusetts resident Dale Nee to the BRAC Commission regarding his discontent over DoD recommendations to close bases.

Community Correspondence - Letter from concerned Nadia Wend Vogel to the BRAC Commission.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman Principi regarding the Governors desire to express that he does not consent to some DoD recommendations for the state.

Patent for a new and improved oil press mat. This design "relates to mats between which cakes of ground cotton or other oil-yielding seed are held while being subjected to the action of the press which separates the oil from the cakes. The invention has for its object to provide certain improvements in the construction of such mats, whereby they are made more efficient and durable than those in general use" (lines 9-17).