6 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT

sity on October 1, 1956, and on the same day was succeeded in that position
and as a member of the Commission by Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower.

A meeting of the Commission was held August 9, 1956, at the Hall of
Records. Those present were Judge Brune, Dr. Weigle, Governor McKeldin,
Senator Radcliffe and Mr. Tawes. After approving the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting, the members of the Commission reviewed with the Archivist
the proposed revision of the Maryland Guide which the HaH of Records has
undertaken.

Consideration was then given to the need for a Records Center for the
deposit of non-current records. The members of the Commission were shown
plans of the two areas in the new office buildings which have been reserved
for this purpose, but before taking final action, Mr. Tawes suggested that the
Archivist inquire into the possibility of using the Annapolis Armory for the
same purpose.

The Hall of records Commission then approved the appointments to the
staff which had been made since the last meeting. There followed an explana-
tion of the procedures for appointing and dismissing staff members none of
whom is protected by the safeguards of the classified employee system.

The Archivist explained the part of the Hall of Records in supporting
the passage of certain acts of the General Assembly of the 1956 session, and
his proposals for legislation to be submitted to the 1957 General Assembly
were approved.

The meeting was adjourned sine die at 4:40 P.M.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

The Hall of Records operated during fiscal year 1957 for a little less than
it had in the previous year. This was done in spite of the fact that we were
given an additional sum of over $3,000 to take care of the general salary in-
creases of October 1956. However, only part of this saving ought to be attri-
buted to our continuing effort to conduct our affairs as economically as possi-
ble. Other savings were due to our inability to complete a new volume of our
calandars of State papers by the end of the fiscal year as we had hoped and to
the unusually large sum of salary funds which remained unexpended as a re-
sult of the several prolonged staff vacancies in Program 3.

Our total receipts were far greater than in any previous year, but this
was due to the fact that most of the receipts for waste paper disposed of by
agencies cooperating in the Records Management Program were channelled