20 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT

Provincial Court Judgments, 1679-1776. This index which
has been in preparation for many years progressed slowly,
cards having been filed only through the year 1712. Typed
cards.

General Court Judgments, 1778-1805. Only one year, 1801,
was completed during the year. Typed cards.

Supplement to the Catalogue of Archival Material. This
supplement will contain all materials acquired since the publi-
cation of the Catalogue in 1942. Mimeographed.

Guide to the Index Holdings of the Hall of Records. This
revision of Bulletin No. 6 is now known as Indexes to Original
Records. Mimeographed.

ARRANGEMENT

During the past year we followed our normal practice of
arranging such new records as were received before any con-
sideration was given to older materials. By following this
practice we prevent the backlog of materials waiting to be ar-
ranged—lost materials—from increasing. Most of the new
accessions proved to be relatively simple arrangement problems:
only the records of the Baltimore County Commissioners re-
quired study and time.

Of the older materials some progress was made in the ar-
rangement of the early unbound Executive Papers, but this col-
lection along with the early Court of Appeals Papers, which at
some time in the past were confused with the papers of the Gen-
eral Court, remains one of our thorniest problems. The arrange-
ment of the Testamentary Papers which had been begun the
year before and had proceeded from 1650 to 1696 was continued
during this year and has now been completed through the year
1739, leaving only thirty-eight years of the collection to be
arranged. Exclusive of the Testamentary Papers, the Executive
Papers and the Court of Appeals Papers, no other major ar-
rangement problems remain.

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS

By virtue of Chapter 825, Acts of 1941, which provides that
all State Agencies must offer their non-current records for de-