18 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT

demand except for the constant use of military service and census
records. The use of these records rarely, if ever, appears in the
Research Room circulation figures because our index cards which
are open to the public carry all of the information in the rec-
ord so that the record itself is never called for. Correspondence
involving historical, legal, institutional problems, normally cared
for by the Archivist, were not analyzed for source materials
since the emphasis on printed books, reports of State offices,
atlases, etc., would make such a survey difficult and relatively
fruitless.

AIDS TO RESEARCH

PRINTED
Completed

Ninth Annual Report of the Archivist of the Hall of Records,
State of Maryland, for the fiscal year July 1, 1943 through
June 30, 1944* The Annual Reports are useful to researchers
since they contain lists of accessions which supplement the print-
ed Catalogue. In addition, new finding media completed and
in progress are listed and described. Limited numbers of these
reports from the fifth through the ninth are available for free
distribution. The first four reports were not printed.

Index to the Maryland Line in the Confederate Army. Pub-
lications of the Hall of Records Commission No. 3. This Index
to the 1900 edition of W. W. Goldsborough's Maryland Line in
the Confederate Army was compiled by Mrs. Charles Lee Lewis,
State Historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Maryland Division. Copies are for sale at the Hall of Records
at one dollar each.

In Preparation

Tenth Annual Report of the Archivist of the Hall of Records,
State of Maryland, for the fiscal year July 1, 1944 through
June BO, 1945.

Prince George's County Court Proceedings, 1696-1699, Liber
A. This volume will be published jointly by the Hall of Records
Commission and the Committee on the Littleton-Griswold Fund