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historian; Reverend Ernest Twigg, historian of Magothy Methodist
Church, Jacobsville, Anne Arundel County; Anna Mary Urban, Co-
ordinator of Reference Services, University of Maryland Library.

PUBLICATIONS

I am especially pleased with our record of publication for fiscal
year 1960. I think that the list which follows is a creditable one but,
unfortunately, one which we are not likely to equal in the new year.
Publication is one of the prized objectives in the archivistic tradition;
but American training does not stress this aspect of our work and there
is rarely the leisure in new institutions like ours which have been over-
burdened by the need to accept and make available all the accumulation
of early records. In any case, in the coming year we shall have to pre-
pare a new edition of the Manual, we shall go forward with the revised
version of the Maryland Guide, and we are hopeful that the second
volume of the County Courthouses and Records of Maryland will be
finished. In addition, the legal editor of the Proceedings of the Prince
George's County Court, a joint effort with the American Historical
Association, advises me that he is again making progress after a long
but unavoidable interruption.

TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ARCHIVIST

In addition to the report of normal activities of the fiscal year
1959, this Report gave an account of the opening of our two Record
Centers. There was also a chronology of the transfer of the Land Office
from the Hall of Records building and the efforts made through court
action to prevent the move. This Annual Report appeared February
9, 1960.

MARYLAND MANUAL, 1959-1960

The current Manual was an especially difficult one to prepare. The
election of 1958 brought in a host of new officers; the appearance of a
new Code required the checking of all references; the completion of
the two new State Office Buildings meant a change of address and
telephone number for everyone. New agencies were created beyond
anything we had experienced in the past, and old ones abolished; a
short history of the General Assembly of 1959 and 1960 was added as
well as an historical list of Clerks of the Court of Appeals and a new