8 THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT

President of the Johns Hopkins University:

DR. MILTON S. EISENHOWER ..................... Baltimore

President of the Peabody Institute:

JOHN M. NELSON III.............................Baltimore

A meeting of the Hall of Records Commission was held Novem-
ber 10,1966 at the Hall of Records. Dr. Weigle presided at the opening
of the meeting because of the retirement of the Chairman, Chief Judge
Stedman Prescott during the summer of 1966. After the minutes of
the last meeting, September 21, 1965, were approved, Dr. Weigle
called for a new election of officers. Chief Judge Hall Hammond of
the Court of Appeals was thereupon elected Chairman and Dr. Weigle
was re-elected Vice Chairman.

The Archivist then asked for approval of the new members of the
staff appointed since the last meeting: Sarah Wadley Salter, Archivist
II, January 12, 1966 (reinstated), Charles William White, Clerk I,
March 9, 1966, vice John R. Goodwin; Beverly Ann Baker, Archivist
II, April 20, 1966, vice Robert O. Benson; Judith Lee Lilley, Manu-
script Repair Technician, vice Patricia C. Goldsborough; and Kenneth
Lee Thompson, Manuscript Repair Technician, May 4, 1966, vice
Beatrice B. Hiltabidle. All were approved.

The members of the Commission then considered the failure of
the Archivist to recover the Maryland Archives in the hands of the
Librarian of Congress. The Archivist had been instructed at the pre-
vious meeting to make a last effort to recover these records. He had
enlisted the aid of Congressman Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., who had
undertaken the task but had not come to a satisfactory arrangement
with Dr. L. Quincy Mumford, the Librarian of Congress. Mr. Mathias
had advised Judge Brune that if compensation were offered to the
Library of Congress, the records might be returned. The Archivist had
been asked if he would trade certain records for those which the State
of Maryland wished to repossess. He had refused this offer because he
did not consider that the Hall of Records had anything in its custody
which would have interest for the Federal Government, and, in any
case, he would not be willing to attempt to alienate the State's title to
any of its records.

Dr. Weigle suggested that compensation be considered but Mr.
Goldstein said that if the records belonged to the State of Maryland,