Codes and Compilations

Unit 1: The Laws of the Province of Maryland Collected into one Volumn,... (1692-1718). Appended:His Excellency's Speech and Addresses of the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly May 1719. (Philadelphia: Andrew Bradford, 1718). Pages m11781-0013 through m11781-0251 of the microfilm.
Source: Library of Congress

Unit 2: Acts of Assembly, passed in the Province of Maryland, from 1692 to 1715. (London: John Baskett, 1723). Pages m11781-0253 through m11781-0450 of the microfilm.
Source: Library of Congress

Unit 3: The Laws of the Province of Maryland Relating to Church and Clergy, Religion and Learning. (Trott). (London: 1725). pages numbered 171-221. Pages m11781-0452 through m11781-0510 of the microfilm.
Source: New York Public Library

Unit 4: A Compleat Collection of the Laws of Maryland. (1692-1727). (Annapolis: William Parks, 1727). Pages m11781-0512 through m11781-0861 of the microfilm.
* Variant title page bound in additional copy.
Source: Association of the Bar of the City of New York Library, *Brown University-John Carter Brown Library

Unit 5: "Tobacco acts relating to the support of government, 1638-1739/40". Pages m11781-0863 through m11781-0880 of the microfilm.
Source:Maryland Historical Society - Calvert Papers no. 812.

Unit 6: James Bisset. Abridgement and Collection of the Acts of Assembly of the Province of Maryland, At present in Force. (Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1759. Pages m11781-0882 through m11781-1254 of the microfilm.
Source: Library of Congress

The Early State Records Series was created between 1941 and 1950 as a joint project by the Library of Congress and the University of North Carolina. Edited by William Sumner Jenkins it resulted in 1600 reels of microfilm containing government records from 48 states. There were 68 reels created containing records from Maryland up to 1867. They are the starting point from which new transcribed and indexed volumes in the Archives of Maryland in part will be derived. We have placed each microfilm online exactly as it was filmed by Jenkins. The books on this reel are all from microfilm M11781. There is an introduction at the beginning of each reel that explains the process Jenkins used to develop the Earl State Records Collection.

The digital edition of the Archives of Maryland is published by the Maryland State Archives through a grant from the Information Technology Fund of the State of Maryland. As part of an ongoing effort to provide greater access to Maryland Legal History, the Archives is bringing the Archives of Maryland online, linking the transcribed and edited contents to scans of the original documents from which the indexed transcripts are derived.