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Our collection was enriched by the acquisition of a number of reports
and documents from the duplicate collections of the Enoch Pratt Free Li-
brary, the library of the Maryland Historical Society and the Department of
Legislative Reference. Seven documents were purchased at a modest price
from Mr. Claude W. Dorsey of Laurel, Maryland. Of these seven, particular
note should be made of the Report of the State Agricultural Chemist for
1854; a rare document, its acquisition enabled us to complete the file for
this office. Through the courtesy of Mr. Walter Goldstein of the Twentieth
Century Printing Company, we received a copy of the First Thirty-Five
Annual Reports of the Baltimore City Health Department (1815-1849), re-
printed in one volume in 1953.

During the past year we were able to resume the microfilming of public
documents held in other collections, the originals of which we have been
unable to procure. One hundred and six reports were added in this way.
Fifty-eight of these were borrowed from the Enoch Pratt Free Library and
the remainder from the Department of Legislative Reference. At the end of
the fiscal year approximately sixty more such reports were available from the
latter source for filming.

As a result of these efforts we were able to complete the report series
for twenty-one additional offices, agencies and institutions of the State. The
following table shows the agency, the period of its existence, and the number
of reports issued:

		Dates	Number of
	Agency	Covered	Reports
	State Agricultural Chemist ........................................	1847-1862	12
	Comptroller of the Treasury ....................................	1851 ........	103
	Conservation Department ..........................................	1923-1940	18
	Commission on the Administrative Organization
	of the State Government ....................................	1951-1953	12
	Maryland State School for the Deaf ........................	1868........	46
	State Board of Forestry ..............................................	1906-1922	8
	Department of Forestry .........................................	1922-1939	7
	Bureau of Immigration ..............................................	1897-1916	10
	Commissioner of Immigration ..................................	1866-1867	2
	State Industrial Accident Commission ......................	1914 ........	39
	Legislative Council ......................................................	1941 ........	10
	Board of Motion Picture Censors ............................	1916........	35
	Maryland Racing Commission ..................................	1920........	33