14 SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

National Historical Records Survey the Hall of Records received
258 volumes of record inventories of county and municipal govern-
ment, manuscript depositories and federal agencies in the States.
Some of these volumes are extremely valuable to us. They are all
accessioned and catalogued and made available to the public.

The Archivist was extremely fortunate to be able to preserve
the HR8 project of six workers at the Hall of Records when the
total for the State was reduced to 35 and every other worker outside
Baltimore was dismissed. All of these workers are now in their
second year at least at the Hall of Records, and by now each one
knows his work thoroughly. Understanding of their work plus
diligence and interest have combined to make them of great value
to us. Their work now runs the whole gamut of record servicing:
cleaning, unfolding, sorting, arranging, boxing, listing, labelling,
indexing, filing. What they have accomplished will appear in this
report under Reception and Arrangement, Accessioning, and Aids
to Research especially; it will suffice here to say that without them
much of the very first materials which came to the Hall of Records,
the deposits from the Land Office and the Court of Appeals, would
not yet be serviced. It is inconceivable that the collection of court
papers and Original Laws from the Court of Appeals would now be
unfolded, boxed, arranged, accessioned and ready for cataloguing
and use without them. It was planned in 1938 to have this work
done in ten years; it is now done and over with along with very
much more. We have no doubt that the taxpayers' money has been
well invested at the Hall of Records.

A clerical project of the National Youth Administration which
was granted to the Hall of Records during the fiscal year 1939-1940
was continued during the past year. The number of workers, all
girls except one, varied from twelve to twenty-eight through the
year. For the NY A we must provide clerical work exclusively, that
is stenography, typewriting, filing. How large their work appears
in our total for the year is apparent when it is considered that no
cards were inserted in our files during the year by a regular mem-
ber of the staff, and well over 100,000 were typed, filed, and made
available. The WPA did some of this work but the bulk was done
by the NYA. Without the NYA we should not even have considered
doing the index to Maryland Volunteers in the Union Armies or
the index to Testamentary Proceedings. The indexing of the large