Excerpt from Annual Report of State Librarian: 1900 In line with progressive library work, and with a View to rendering more efficient service in my department, I have adopted the card system of cataloguing, and find it more convenient, more economical, and in every way pref erable to the usual printed catalogue required by law. This involves the saving of about $100 each year, (which would be the cost of a printed catalogue), while for utility and serviceableness the card system is incomparably superior. By this arrangement new books are catalogued as they arrive, thus showing in convenient classification the latest editions of text-books and other works of refer ence, and bringing the list right up to date. Since my last report I have collected and brought together in the Historical Room of the Library, for more convenient reference, the Colonial and Revolutionary records of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Con necticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Penn sylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, making altogether a mass of exceedingly interesting historical matter. It will be noted that all of the original thirteen States, except South Carolina and Georgia, are represented in this collection. I am informed that South Carolina has 'a commission at work now collecting data and pre paring material for a similar publication, having only a short time since paid for a transcript of the C010 nial Records of that State on file in the British Public Records Office in London. Thus it will be seen that, of the entire colonial sisterhood, Georgia is the only State that has not either printed these valuable records, or is pre paring to do so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.