28 NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT

	Board of Shell Fish Commissioners ..........................	1906-1916	7
	Board of State-Aid and Charities ............................	1902-1939	19
	Bureau of Statistics and Information ......................	1884-1891	4
	Maryland Teachers Retirement System ......................	1928........	18
	Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium Commission ......	1908-1946	39
	University of Maryland — Agricultural Experiment
	Station ................................................................	1888........	65
	University of Maryland — Extension Service ..........	1914........	39
	State Department of Public Welfare ........................	1939........	9

In addition to the reports of established administrative agencies, we
have also added materially to our collection of the reports of special com-
missions and committees created by the Legislature or the Executive to study
particular problems. Twenty-five of these were procured from the Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference and microfilmed. Others were printed in the
legislative Journals of either or both houses of the General Assembly. Steps
have been taken to locate these reports and to catalogue them with our other
reports. During the fiscal year, approximately sixty reports contained in
the Senate Journals for 1890-1920 and a few scattered in the House Journals
were catalogued in this manner. This catalogue has already revealed reports
of which we were previously unaware.

ACCESSIONS

The apparently inexhaustible resources of the county courthouses of
Maryland have once again provided us with several items of unusual interest.
Among the records transferred from the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court at Cambridge was a small volume containing the proceedings of the
commissioners appointed to lay out ports and towns in Dorchester County,
as provided by Chapter 14 of the Acts of 1706. Although the volume is
entitled "Establishment of Vienna Towne 1706," it also describes the original
boundaries of Cambridge and of two other towns, Islington and "Fishing
Creek on Hungar River," which no longer exist. A street-by-street survey
of the town of Cambridge made in 1799, with the accompanying plat, was
another valuable item of this group.

At the request of the Register of Wills of Frederick County, we trans-
ferred a large quantity of original papers from his office. They have been
filed with similar papers already in our custody. As a result of this deposit,
we now have the original wills of Frederick County from 1748 to 1886.
The papers for the other probate series cover approximately the same period.