22 TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT

Museum; Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary; the
Reverend William M. Plummer, Rector, Christ Church Parish, Calvert
County; deLafayette Reid, Assistant Illinois State Librarian; Frank
Schwartz, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory; Joseph W. T. Smith,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County; Mr. Soerono, Bureau
of Security, Prime Minister's Office, Indonesia; Thomas E. Stokel,
artist and designer of the St. Mary's County Courthouse Seal; William
T. Stone, United States National Museum; Robert Whitelaw, artist
and designer of Washington Diorama at Masonic Temple, Alexandria,
Virginia; Thomas Wilds, Union Carbide and Chemical Corporation.

PUBLICATIONS

Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Archivist

Like earlier reports of the Archivist, this one attempted to give
as factually as possible an account of our major activities. In addition,
there was a useful report of the first five years of our Records Manage-
ment program and the preparations for opening our first Record Center.

Maryland Manual, 1959-1960

The Maryland Manual, which is a biennial publication, is necessarily
always in process. Following the election of November 1958, we began
collecting material for the new Manual which should appear in January-
1960. There will be no alterations in the form of the new Manual
but the detailed changes required are far in excess of normal. For one
thing, changes in the personnel of government caused by the landslide
election of 1958 were of historic proportion. Almost every State agency
has changed its address and telephone number because of the completion
of two new office buildings since the last Manual; a new Code has ap-
peared, requiring changes in almost every reference; several new agencies
were created and some others abolished by the General Assembly of
1959.

Publication Number 12 of the Hall of Records Commission, The County
Courthouses and Records of Maryland, Part One: The Courtliouses

This work was completed by the end of the fiscal year. It is now
being printed and should appear in January or February 1960. This
book is lavishly illustrated and is being printed in an attractive format.
It is our hope that the subject and the popular format will attract buyers
and thus help to defray part of the unusually high cost of printing.
A second volume, which will contain a description and catalogue of
local records, is scheduled for next year.