52 TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

in reports required from the local departments. In the course of an extensive
survey of the records and office procedures of the State Industrial Accident
Commission undertaken in cooperation with the Department of Budget and
Procurement, recommendations were made which will stop the creation of
certain records which serve no useful purpose. Finally, a proposal was submit-
ted to the Legislative Council which, if enacted into law, will bring uniform-
ity in the procedures used in the recordation of conditional contracts of sale
in the offices of the several county Clerks of Court and abolish the present
system of abstracting the contracts.

As in the past, the Division continued to advise the Department of Bud-
get and Procurement and the Board of Public Works on all requests for the
purchase or rental of record equipment, services, and storage space. Requests
for filing equipment were reviewed to assure that all useless records had been
destroyed and that old equipment was utilized before new equipment was pur-
chased. Purchase requisitions for microfilm equipment, rapid-copy machines,
and elevator files also were investigated and appropriate recommendations
made. These cooperative efforts resulted in considerable savings to the State.

RECORDS RETENTION SCHEDULES

The tables below list the 108 schedules established during the year for State,
county, and bi-county agencies.

		No. of	No. of
	State Agencies	Schedules	Record Series
	Accident Fund ..... ...............................................	1	14
	Auditor, State ......................................................	1	8
	Department of Bucket and Procurement ..............	3	35
	Comptroller of the Treasury,
	Admissions Tax Division .............................	1	7
	Alcoholic Beverages Division ......................	1	29
	Gasoline Tax Division .................................	1	4
	Retail Sales Tax Division .............................	1	20
	Department of Correction,
	Maryland Penitentiary .................................	2	23
	Department of Health .........................................	32	146
	Department of Information .................................	1	1
	Board of Liquor License Commissioners for
	Baltimore City .............................................	I	6
	Department of Mental Hygiene,
	Crownsville Hospital ..................................	1	5