12 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT

Frederick County Administration Accounts....... 13 volumes 6,467 pages
Frederick County Land Records........ 1 volume 674 pages

31 volumes 16,166 pages

MICROFILM

Our microfilm equipment was used almost exclusively during the
fiscal year to complete our program of filming our major records in
order to insure them against loss by war hazards. Two operators were
especially employed until January 1943, after which only one was needed
to complete the work shortly after the end of the fiscal year. Since no
further major project is in view at present, the remaining operator is
no longer employed, and such microfilming as is necessary from time
to time is cared for by the Photocopyist.

The following materials amounting to 319 volumes (116 rolls of
film) were completed during the year:

Anne Arundel County Deeds and Wills

The Rainbow Series

Court of Appeals Judgments

Court of Appeals Decrees

Western Shore General Court

Eastern Shore General Court

Wills and Inventories, (not taken previously because of existing copies,
various indexes),

EMERGENCY RELIEF AGENCIES

Of the two Federal Emergency Relief Agencies whose workers
were employed at the Hall of Records, the National Youth Administra-
tion and the Work Projects Administration, the former had been
abolished before the beginning of the last fiscal year; the latter was
represented by only one worker who left the Hall of Records when all
WPA projects were closed in January, 1943. This last worker assisted
in microfilming those records which we felt must be insured against
all war hazards no matter how remote. In furthering this project our
single worker acted under the direction of the Congress which stipulated
that WPA employees could be used only in Direct War or Civilian
Defense work.

During the two years in which the NYA and WPA maintained
large projects at the Hall of Records, much progress was made in
arranging, indexing and cataloguing our records, snore progress in fact
than had been thought possible for anything less than a ten-year period
for the regular staff. The Archivist is, of course, happy that the con-
ditions which called forth relief agencies no longer exist; however,