26 THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT

	Photostats	No. of		Cash
		Orders	Pages	Receipts
	Cash ................	....... 750	5,425	$3,065.00
	Office ...............	....... 39	1,979	—
	Other State Agencies	...... —	—	—
		789	7,404	$3,065.00
	Projection Prints
	Cash ...............	....... 83	549	$ 313.00
	Office ...............	....... 5	77
		88	626	$ 313.00
	Microfilm
	Cash ...............	....... 7	878 images	$ 43.80
	Office ...............	....... 28	227,491 images
		35	228, 369 images	$ 43.80
		Summary
	Photostats ...........		7,404 pages	$3,065.00
	Projection Prints ...... Microfilm ...........		626 pages 228,369 images	313.00 43.80
				$3,121.80
	Microfilm Inspected .....		403 reels

During the year we had 1,490 reels of positive microfilm prints
made of negative microfilm copies of county land records. The positives
have been assigned the same reference numbers and shelved in place
of the negatives which have been stored in a special area of the stacks.
This is part of a continuing program and we expect eventually to
duplicate all of our negative microfilm in this fashion.

CIRCULATION

The comparative tables below indicate a drop in the number of
visitors to the Hall of Records last year and a consequent drop in the
number of items circulated. On the other hand, the number of letters
answered increased thirteen per cent over the last fiscal year and
twenty-five per cent over the preceding year. It is this correspondence
which takes up the maximum amount of time of the staff. A working
visitor registers and calls for his records which may or may not be too
easy to supply depending on his skill in their use, but to reply to an
inquiry sometimes takes a day or two of the staff member's time. We
try to maintain prompt service as in the past: it is rare that a letter
remains unanswered for as long as a week.