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 472 Notes a7id News The Society of Iconophiles has published an index to the illustrations in the series (beginning in 1841-1842) of the New York Cit}' Common Council Manuals. The index is in four sections, (i) Plates and Maps; (2) Maps and Plans of the City of New York and Vicinity; (3) Miscel- laneous Maps; (4) Facsimiles, Letters, Signatures, Documents, Broad- sides, and Certificates. An introduction has been written by William L. Andrews, and the volume is put forth by the Gillis Press. Copies not taken by members of the society will be on sale by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. In the Monthly Bulletin for July of the Pittsburg Carnegie Library is a " List of References on the Whiskey Insurrection in Western Penn- sylvania in 1794 ". A second volume of Baltimore records, following immediately after those of Baltimore Town and Jones' Town, noted in these columns last year, has been edited by Wilbur F. Coyle and published by the Baltimore City Library: Records of the City of Baltimore, lypy-iSiS- The vol- ume opens with the act incorporating Baltimore as a city, and then fol- lows with the records of the city commissioners. The September issue of the Publications of the Southern History Association is made up of three groups of documents. Under " Negro Colonization " are printed three letters from Montgomery and Frank P. Blair to J. R. Doolittle (in October and November, 1859) dealing with the negro problem and urging the creation of a sentiment in favor of colonization. Under " Early Appointments to Office under the United States Government " we are given fifteen letters to James Mc- Henry, Secretary of War, from John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and William Vans Murray (1798-1800). There are also selections from the " Duane Correspondence ", comprising letters to James Duane from Samuel Chase, S. Metcalf, James Kinsey, and William Tod, all written in the years 1774-1776, and relating to a variety of topics. In the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for October the " Journals of the Council of Virginia in Executive Sessions " are con- tinued from June 15, 1738, to November 7 of the same year; under tho caption " Virginia Legislative Papers " is commenced an interesting series of intercepted letters from Norfolk and Portsmouth tories ; a group of documents, translated and annotated by Professor William J. Hinke, relates to the German Lutheran colonies in Virginia after their settlement in Madison County ; among them are included church ac- counts, reports, letters, and wills. " Revolutionary Army Orders for the Main Army under Washington" are continued from May 27 to 31. 1778. Among the " Notes and Queries " is printed for the first time a letter, unfortunately incomplete, from Patrick Henry to William Gray- son, March 31, 1789, respecting the conduct of Indian affairs by General Joseph Martin.