36 FIRST TO FOURTH ANNUAL REPORTS

Maryland Historical Society: In October 1936 an additional
large lot of records was received, including some volumes of the Re-
corded Laws, the records of the Intendant, some of the Council Let-
ter Books and Proceedings and the justly famous "Rainbow Series"
of mounted and bound loose records.

Anne Arundel County: On January 29, 1937 the first county rec-
ords were received. They consisted of the probate records of the
Register of Wills from the creation of that office in 1777 to 1820.
At the same time the Clerk of the Circuit Court transferred the
Land Records of the County from the beginning to 1777.

Baltimore County: On February 3, 1937 there was transferred
from the Baltimore City Court House the Land Records from the
beginning of the County through 1800. Baltimore City only became
a separate entity in 1851. On March 4 of the same year the Court
records of the county from the earliest time to the end of the eight-
eenth century were also transferred.

Maryland State Banking Commission: On July 1, 1937 a col-
lection of indexed files of this agency was transferred.

City of Annapolis: This same year also saw the transfer of the
first municipal records to come to the Hall of Records. All of the
old records of Annapolis were transferred.

Fiscal Year 1937-1938.

Maryland Historical Society: On February 11, 1938 a large col-
lection of materials which had been deposited there by the State of
Maryland in 1846 was transferred from the Society.

Maryland Executive Offices: A large collection of administra-
tive materials from the Governor's office, dating for the most part
from the last three decades of the 19th century and the first two
decades of the 20th, were transferred.

Fiscal Year 1938-1939.

It will be noted that the accessions of the third fiscal year
marked a serious decline from the preceding two years. At the be-
ginning of the fourth year the Archivist turned his attention to the
counties in which were to be found the only substantial collections
of early records still outside the vaults of the Hall of Records. Up
to that time the Hall of Records had received only the records of
Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties. It now became apparent that