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20 THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT _________
this kind of work. The number of record volumes bound was increased
from forty to sixty, ten less than the average for previous years.
There is some explanation: so far as laminating is concerned, one
of the two women engaged in this work had to undergo surgery during
the year and she was out for several months. Besides she worked on
materials from the Land Office which were in very bad condition. Our
present binder does more careful and more time-consuming work than
his predecessor, and we are hopeful that he will soon exceed in quantity
as well as in quality.
PHOTODUPLICATION
The photoduplication department was harassed by frequent changes
of staff. Mr. Saddler, who is listed as Photographer I, shortly after the
end of the fiscal year was tempted away from us by another agency of
the state government with the offer of a higher classification. Mr.
William Mays stayed with us only a few months and then left to re-
turn to school and to moonlight as an employee of a private detective
agency. We have had other employees who have chosen the Annapolis
Police Department as offering more money and more future than the
State. Moreover, we require all of our non-professional employees to
work with wretched equipment, our microfilm cameras average about
thirty years of use and our photostatic camera is about twenty-five years
of age. The photostat camera which we inherited from the Land Office
was purchased by that office in, I think, 1917, and is ready to be dis-
played at the Smithsonian Institution. It is nothing less than remarkable
that we were able to fill all of our orders last year albeit they were
later in getting out than in the past.
The work of the Land Office is not included in the figures given
here below.
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No of
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Photostats
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Orders
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Exposures
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Amount
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Cash
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1,008
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9,705
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$4,511 75
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Office
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29
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1,009
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Projection Prints
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Cash
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170
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950
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52650
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Office
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1
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5
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Microfilm
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Cash
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8
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962
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5935
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Office
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62
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163,012
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SUMMARY
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Photostats
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1,037 orders
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10,714 pages
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$4,51175
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Projection Prints
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171 orders
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955 pages
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52650
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Microfilm
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70 orders
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163,974 exposures
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5935
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$5,097 60
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