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18 THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
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Liber R.T. No. E, 1755-1759...................
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349 pages
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Talbot County Land Records
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Liber No. 1, 1662-1675........................
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376 pages
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Liber B.B. No. 2, 1672.........................
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464 pages
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G-eneral Index, 1662-1833......................
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472 pages
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Talbot County Original Wills
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Boxes 2-25, 1665-1789..........................
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3,928 pages
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Testamentary Proceedings
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Liber No. 21, 1708-1711........................
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393 pages
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Liber No. 28, 1727-1730.......................
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540 pages
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Liber No. 36, 1753-1757.......................
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447 pages
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Washington County Wills
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Liber T.S. No. 1, 1777-1788...................
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368 pages
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Wills
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Liber No. 16, 1720-1721.......................
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542 pages
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Worcester County Land Records
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Liber A, 1742-1747............................
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558 pages
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General Index, 1742-1844......................
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554 pages
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Miscellaneous
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Parchments flattened ............................
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2 pages
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Total.............................
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18,640 pages
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PHOTOCOPYING
Again during the past fiscal year almost the whole effort of the
photostat camera operator was directed toward the duplication of those
county land records which are deposited at the Hall of Records and
which we are required by law to replace with photostats. The attention
of the members of the Hall of Records Commission is invited to the
fact that in a good year, such as the last one, around 17,000 pages can
be photostated with our present equipment. Since Land Record volumes
average about 500 pages, it is clear why duplication of the Land Records
before 1788 has taken so many years and why the Hall of Records is
not willing to commit itself any further. In the following section of
this report I have explained our program of microfilming later Land
Records. However, I am aware that there is much objection to using
microfilms in the counties — there is even some objection to using
photostats — and for that reason I have asked in my budget for 1950
sufficient funds for the purchase and installation of a continuous pro-
cess photostat camera. Cameras of this kind process mechanically and
can turn out five or six times as much as manually operated equip-
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