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The Maryland State Archives provides on-line access to over one million historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, and administrative basis of Maryland government. Included here are documents from the following sources: legislative records, state council, judicial records, executive records, council of safety, land records, laws, codes, compilations, military records, constitutional conventions, public officials, and early state records. Recent editions to the electronic archive include the Proceedings and Acts of the 1796 General Assembly and Proceedings and Debates of the 1850, 1864, and 1967 State Constitutional Conventions. The archives are searchable as a whole or by selected section.

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• Social Sciences  / Political Science