Excerpt from Condensed Report of the Public Records Commission of Maryland for the Years 1904-05 About one hundred years after the first Act for the Pre servation of the Public Records, a special Act of the General Assembly was passed at the November Session, 1807 - for the transcribing and recording certain records and papers, under which much important work of rescue was done, covering many years. Again, as we near the century mark, the General Assembly of 1904 passed an Act providing for the better security of the Public Records, and to the Gen eral Assembly of 1906, we respectfully submit the report of what has been done in the line of inspection, and appeal to the representatives of the people to emulate those Colonial Assembly men who for the advantage and quiet of us the future generations saved to our use and benefit the decay ing records. This work of rescuing and preserving the records of Maryland must be a progressive work, - it cannot be done through one appropriation. Let this Assembly enable the work of preservation to begin with such books as are shown in the detailed report to be the most urgent in need of repair. Never before have the records been so generally handled, much long-needed indexing being done, which will increase the use of'the books, and will hasten their destruction unless given immediate attention. Printing the defaced records is recommended as the means of their permanent preservation, where possible. The condensed report made from the nearly pages of details is as nearly correct as could be in the brief time left to prepare it before the meeting of the General Assembly. 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.