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24 TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
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Number of
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Orders
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Pages
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Photostats
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Cash ..............................
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460
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3,818
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Office .............................
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48
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401
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Other State Agencies ................
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24
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1,660
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532
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5,879
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Projection Prints
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Cash ..............................
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76
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338
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Office .............................
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6
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36
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82
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374
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Microfilm
Cash ..............................
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4
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1,468
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Office .............................
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29,575
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31,043
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Summary
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Photostats ..................................
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....... 5,879
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Projection Prints .............................
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, . 374
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Microfilm ..................................
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....... 31,043
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Microfilm Inspected ..........................
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321 reels
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Cash received in payment for photographic services:
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$2.071.40
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COUNTY LAND RECORDS PROJECT
We suffered more than the usual number of misfortunes this year
in our county microfilm program. In almost every count)* we must
teach a new operator from the beginning or change the technique of an
old one; therefore, we expect a certain amount of wasted time and
effort as each new project begins. We had other problems too this year:
camera breakdowns, erratic power, misunderstandings, projects left
unfinished by one operator and requiring a new beginning for another.
However, in spite of these disappointments, we completed both Harford
and Washington Counties. We are also through in Charles County
except for a modest number of retakes; Talbot has progressed through
1936; and a good start has been made in Worcester. A large number of
reels has come in from Montgomery, where a deputy clerk is filming
for us in his spare time; and more than five hundred reels of land
records have come in from Baltimore City, enough to bring that enor-
mous series from 1870 to 1893 and the Block Books to 1959-
The reader is reminded that beginning dates of 1851 found in the
following list do not mean that we are lacking the earlier records; on the
contrary it means that we have them in every case in which they have
survived. These earlier records are, of course, not necessarily on film.
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