The Baltimore City Circuit Court No. 2 had sole jurisdiction in paternity cases until the merger of Circuit Courts No. 1 and No. 2 in 1983. Those indexes dated prior to 1983 reference Circuit Court No. 2 Paternity Dockets (see MSA T 2758) and are in docket number order and not alphabetical. The Paternity Docket Index is arranged alphabetically to assist in locating/ cross referencing the docket number of a case within the Paternity Docket. The item level description for the first eight units in the inventory below give the span of docket books and docket numbers for that specific index. For example the first unit for years 1963-1964 is described 1-900/3-3759 meaning the index begins with docket book 1, docket entry number 900 and ends with docket book 3, docket entry number 3759.