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HOWARD COUNTY

Orphans' Court Proceedings ............ 1952-1960

Wills ............................... 1947-1959

Inventories, Personal .................. 1854-1962

Administration Accounts ............... 1853-1960

KENT COUNTY

Orphans' Court Proceedings ............ 1952-1963

Wills ............................... 1946-1955

Inventories, Personal .................. 1850-1964

Administration Accounts ............... 1848-1955

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY

Orphans' Court Proceedings ............ 1950-1963

Wills ............................... 1950-1964

Inventories, Personal .................. 1950-1955

Administration Accounts ............... 1957-1962

SOMERSET COUNTY

Orphans' Court Proceedings ............ 1933-1960

Wills ............................... 1946-1962

Inventories, Sales & Petitions ........... 1850-1962

Administration Accounts ............... 1851-1960

WASHINGTON COUNTY

Orphans' Court Proceedings ............ 1954-1964

Wills ............................... 1955-1961

Inventories, Personal .................. 1853-1964

Administration Accounts ............... 1852-1963

REPAIR AND BINDING

For the most part, record books which have been rebound within
the last twenty or thirty years have been covered with white canvas.
While this provides an excellent defense against the buffeting that
these heavy volumes receive in the course of normal usage, it also
serves to obscure their identity. For example, if the volume comes from
a county, as most of them do, it was not felt necessary by the original
custodian to identify the volume beyond its liber and numbers. Of
course, the situation is different here at the Hall of Records where we
have identically bound volumes of every county of Maryland. As a
result, we are forced to take measures to minimize the constant chance
of erroneous shelving which in turn, necessitates a concerted search for
the missing volume. We have found that stamping the name of the
county on the white canvas cover is a cheap way of avoiding this kind
of trouble. For several years, the binder has been asked to devote spare
moments to this task. This year she devoted a considerable amount of
time to this project which was within 629 volumes of completion.

Lamination went on at its usual pace, but there were only three
volumes of the seventeenth century in the lot. Most of the rest dated