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Prince George's County Wills ....................	27	45	36
Census of 1776 ...............................	26	35	20
Allegany County Deeds ........................	25	5	.....
Baltimore County Administration Accounts, Original,	25	30	10
Baltimore County Administration Bonds, Original ...	25		.....
Militia Appointments ..........................	22	30	22
Queen Anne's County Deeds......................	22	60	44
Baltimore County Inventories, Original ............	21	54	15
Talbot County Wills, Original....................	21	25	7
Baltimore County Wills..........................	20	26	13
Frederick County Wills..........................	20	5	4

The number of inquiries declined slightly during the year, and this
trend has been noticeable during the past three years. The reason for it
is plain: the Department of Information with the cooperation of the Hall
of Records has published a group of folders and brochures which supply
much of the usual information asked for by school children and teachers
in the elementary and secondary schools. Such inquiries now find their
way, directly or indirectly, to the Department of Information and are
answered simply by mailing the relevant publication. Examples of this
printed material are the so-called Flag and Flower folder, Maryland's His-
toric State House, which also contains a picture and sketch of the Old
Treasury Building, Visit Maryland, and so forth. What inquiries we do
answer involve, therefore, more or less specialized historical and archival
research and knowledge on our part. The number of responses to such
inquiries during the last three years is tabulated here below:

Fiscal Year 1949........................... 1,150

Fiscal Year 1950............................ 1,113

Fiscal Year 1951........................... 1,026

Letters came from forty-one states, the District of Columbia and four
foreign countries, namely, Great Britain, Canada, Argentina and India.

ACCESSIONS

Although the vaults of the Hall of Records are now open for the
storage of all manner of non-current records, we always take special
pleasure in receiving "historical records," recalling as we do so that it was
for this purpose more than any other that the Halls of Records was estab-
lished. Records in this category came from the Register of Wills of St,