38 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

		pages
	Manumissions, 1806-1819 ................................................................................	353
	Orphans' Court Minutes, 1787-1790, 1 Vol. ........................................	62
	Orphans' Court Proceedings (includes Guardian Bonds)
	1787-1795, 1802-1806, 1814, 2 Vols..............................................	771
	Recognizances for Orphans' Estates, 1727-1751, 1 Vol..............................	248
	Testamentary Proceedings, 1689-1692, 1 Vol..........................................	42
	Valuations, 1777-1809, 1 Vol. ................................................................	564
	Travels in the Confederation, Schoepf, Philadelphia, 1911 ............................	88
	Total ............................................................................................	18,835
	MICROFILM ORDERS
	Number of paid orders ......................................................................................	1
	Number of paid pages ....................................................................................	860
	Total ................................................................................................	861
	Cash receipts ......................................................................................................	$32.50
	SUMMARY
	Total number of pages photostated ................................................................	7,534
	Total number of pages projection prints ........................................................	161
	Total number of pages microfilmed ................................................................	19,695
	Total cash receipts ............................................................................................	$1,060

REPAIR AND BINDING

In my report for the last fiscal year, I pointed out that as soon as we
could begin to do our own binding, the quantity of our repair work would
show an abrupt decline. The reason for this is, of course, that one of the two
full-time employees of the Repair Room would have to spend much of her
time in the bindery. We did not begin to bind as soon as we had hoped, but
by the end of the fiscal year we had made some progress, twelve record vol-
umes had been completed. In the meanwhile, the number of pages of mater-
ials laminated dropped from our high mark of the year before, 32,348, to
26,552. If our expectations for the bindery are fulfilled, we shall do even
less laminating next year.

We continued to work with the county records this year but we were
able also to laminate a fine set of records of St. Luke's Parish of Queen Anne's
County. These records will remain on deposit at the Hall of Records. We
were also able to begin the large collection of Prerogative Court Papers,
known as the "Testamentary Papers." This is the last large collection of