10 FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

about 3,000 papers of the Provincial Court. Opinions of the Court for 1934-1935
have been unfolded, labelled and boxed. Work on Opinions is now complete for
the whole period in which this collection is found at the Hall.

Engrossed Laws of Maryland: about 5,000 of these laws were unfolded,
labelled and boxed during the year. An additional 8,000 which had previously
been boxed without having been labelled on the folders were so labelled. Work on
the laws, begun five years ago, is now complete from the beginning through the
Assembly session of 1935. Indexes are not necessary as there are indexes to the
printed Laws and an elaborate index for the whole period is being prepared by the
Legislative Librarian. Only one year, 1839, was discovered to be numbered differ-
ently from the printed laws. Comparative lists of the numbers have now been
completed but unfortunately this was not done in time to assist in locating original
charters for the remarkable numbers of institutions which celebrated their centen-
nials last year.

Adjutant General: The last oi these papers, 8,500, were unfolded this year.
They are now being labelled. The material is so vast and so miscellaneous in
character that no plan of arrangement has been devised, even the simplest chrono-
logical order is not feasible.

Perhaps as much of this sort of work was done in the stacks in the
past year as in the previous four. This good record of accomplishment
is due directly to the fact that one person has been put on a full-time
hasis there. Moreover, this type of work can be done extremely well
by WPA workers. During the course of the year there have been five
or six persons working with Mr. Skordas. His task is heavy, however,
for all the old materials must be unfolded and arranged before they can
be accessioned and finally catalogued, while at the same time he is re-
quired without fail to prepare thorough lists of newly arrived materials
so that the accessioning will not fall further behind than it has already.

The construction work in the stacks has also made additional work
there. Temporary shelves to accommodate a great amount of miscel-
laneous materials had to be removed from the sixth deck, and room had
to be made for the materials on this deck elsewhere in the Hall. The
first general shifting about since the beginning of the Hall is also now
in progress. And like house moving, it is laborious, expensive and dis-
couraging. Moreover, five full-time workers unfolding and boxing
have used an enormous supply of folders and boxes as well as of steel
shelves, all of which must be bought from funds in our ordinary budget.

ACCESSIONS OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
During the course of the year the effort to systematize the handling
of gifts and deposits of private papers was continued. The following