14 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

is as large as all the others taken together, we have no hope of finishing
any part of it before next July. The members of the Commission will
receive a copy of the Brown Book Calendar when it is ready for
distribution; therefore there is no need to describe the contents in
detail. It should be pointed out, however, that the "Brown Books"
contain for the most part Revolutionary letters to the Governors of
Maryland, many from Washington, Jefferson, and other principal actors
in the War and in the formation of the new nation.

The Maryland Manual project, which is described in detail else-
where, was not, strictly speaking, an archival task; however, it will be
of much service to us in so far as we act as the State's historical
agency, because we made every effort to correct the historical sections
of the book, especially the lists of officers. We feel now that we can
rely on these lists which were taken directly from our own records,
and in that way we should be able to save a great deal of time in the
future when historical questions are referred to us.

One unhappy but unavoidable consequence of our preoccupation
with the Calendar of the Brown Books and the Maryland Manual was
the need to devote most of the time of our stenographic staff to this
work. As a result, we were not able to add the number of index cards
to our files which we have come to consider a satisfactory year's work.
I am pleased to report, however, that we did complete the card index
to the Testamentary Papers of the Commissary General. Work on this
collection, composed of 92 boxes of materials, was begun in 1937. It
has been dropped and taken up again on several occasions since that
time. Each time the problem of arrangement prevented completion of
the work. Finally, in 1945, the work was given a new start and has
now been completed.

We were able to complete cards for several fine series of Kent
and Prince George's County records, as the list below will witness,
and we also added the great index to Baltimore County Marriages
which was transferred to the Hall of Records by the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore. Another useful acquisition was a two-
volume index to the Land Records of Worcester County. We began
to move the records of this County to the Hall of Records during the
year.