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In addition to film there axe originals and photostatic copies. The ter-
minal date is fixed at 1949 because film copies of the land records
after that date are required by law to be deposited by the clerks of
court in the Land Office.

County Land Records Series Completed Prior to Fiscal Year 1961

	Anne Arundel ...................	.1851-1949
	Baltimore ......................	.1851-1949
	Calvert .........................	.1882-1949	(earlier records burnt)
	Caroline ........................	.1851-19-49
	Carroll .........................	.1851-1949
	Frederick .......................	.1851-1949
	Howard ........................	.1851-1949
	Prince George's .................	.1851-1949
	Queen Anne's ...................	. 1851-1949
	Wicomico ......................	.1867-1949	(Wicomico erected in 1867)
	County Land Records Series	Completed i	n Fiscal Year 1961
	Harford .......................	...1851-1949
	Washington ....................	.1851-1949

		CIRCULATION
			Fiscal Years
		1960-61	1959-60
	Correspondence
	Research Room .	1,174	1,643
	Form Letters .....	100
	Second Floor .....	229
		1,503
	Visitors
	Research Room .	1,680	1,731
	Second Floor	86
		1,766
	Records Circulated
	Research Room	9,915	10,266
	Second Floor .....	11
		9,926
	Microfilm Reels
	Research Room .	1,337	(This figure included
			in total of records
			circulated.)

The comparative figures given here above speak for themselves.
The quantity of our formal relations with the public has for the past
few years remained fairly constant?if our correspondence drops in
number the number of visitors increases or the number of items cir-
culated. We can only account at least in part for the stability of our
correspondence figures because now for the second year we have stopped