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his records. It was agreed that the Orphans' Court Proceedings be
transferred up to 1954; although the physical move has not yet gone
that far. The cut-off date of the other series was set at 1900. The Pro-
ceedings, Inventories and Administration Bonds have been replaced
with microfilm copies.

The records received from the Registers of Wills for Anne Arun-
del and Kent Counties are later additions to series already in our
custody.

In recent years, we have received from the County Commissioners
of Prince George's County, what is probably the most complete set of
Assessment Books in the State. They cover the period 1796-1909. Last
year we received the surviving Proceedings of the Commissioners and
their predecessors, the Levy Court, dating from 1795 to 1928. It may
well be, however, that some of the lesser series acquired: Minutes of
the Commissioners of the Tax, Tobacco Inspection Proceedings of the
Levy Court, School Proceedings of the Orphans' Court, Minutes of the
Road Directors and Minutes of the Alms House Trustees, may prove
of greater interest to historians. They provide an insight into the func-
tioning of agencies of county government that no longer exist, or have
greatly changed.

We continued our explorations of the attic of the Frederick
County Courthouse (see Twenty-Third Annual Report) and were
rewarded by finding the Marriage License Record for 1798-1814. We
feared this record had been lost. We also brought back three eighteenth-
century dockets and a nearly complete set of dockets for 1801-1850.

For reasons that have been given in several previous reports, we
have devoted most of our efforts in collecting church records to those
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Last year we added the records of
three more parishes. Of special interest are the records of St. John's
Parish of Baltimore and Harford Counties, which was one of the thirty
original parishes established under the Act of 1692. The Vestry
Minutes before 1735 are missing, but otherwise the records have been
well preserved.

Recently, Dr. Nelson W. Rightmyer, Historiographer of the Dio-
cese of Maryland, has addressed a circular letter to every minister in
the diocese, describing our church record program and urging the co-
operation of the parish authorities. We have already received several
inquiries on the subject.