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at Indianapolis. The investigator must exercise both patience and discretion 

 in their use. The names, dates, and indexes are inaccurate, and one who 

 relies upon them will be misled. In many cases local and general laws are 

 printed separately, no fixed rule being followed in the division. 



Legislative Records. Under this title are included three series of volumes: 

 (1) The Journal of the House of Representatives; (2) The Journal of the Senate; 

 (3) The Documentary Jom'nal. These were printed for the State by the public 

 printer. Complete sets are to be found in the State Library at Indianapolis. 

 Of the first two there is usually one volume each for each session of the Legis- 

 lature. The third begins with 1836 and there is usuall}- one volume for each 

 year. The same caution must be used with these as was suggested in the use 

 of the Laws. The dates on the backs, the numbers, the pagination, and the 

 indexes are unreliable. The only w^ay to be sure a thing is not in one of these 

 volumes is to look it through. The House and Senate Journals contain the 

 minutes of the sessions of those bodies, but beyond that no fixed rule of publi- 

 cation has been followed. The substauce of a speech is sometimes given, and 

 many valuable committee reports are included. The Journals invariably con- 

 tain the Governor's message, and until the beginning of the Documentary 

 Journal in 1836 they contain all the reports of the State officers that were 

 made to the Legislature. The Docimientary Journal contains the committee 

 reports, the official reports, the reports of special investigations, and other 

 valuable papers. In this journal are found the annuai reports of the banks, 

 as well as man}' special reports called for from time to time by the Legisla- 

 ture. The long and detailed report on the bank by Nathan Palmer in 1842, 

 and the report of the Senate committee that investigated the "Bank Frauds'' 

 in 1857 are in this Journal also. Taken as a whole the volumes contain a vast 

 amount of historical material. They constitute the best single source for 

 state history. 



McCulloch, Hugh. Men and Measures of Half a Century. Xew York^ 

 1889. The author was cashier of the Fort Wajme Branch of the State Bank 

 and President of the Bank of the State of Indiana. Xo one imderstood the 

 banking business before the Civil War better than he. 



Niles' Weekly Register. 73 Vols. Baltimore. 1811-1848. 



Newspapers. It has been necessar}^ to rel}' largely on the Vincennes news- 

 papers for data concerning the First State Bank. The Western Sun and The 

 Centinel were printed there during the period and their files are preserved in 

 the State Library. The Sim was ably edited and its statements are reliable. 

 The Indianapolis papers — The Sentinel and The Journal, under their A'arious 

 names — have also been freely consulted, but their unsupported statements have 

 not been relied on. 



Pitkin, Timoth3^ A Statistical Account of the Commerce of the United 

 States. New Haven, 1835. 



Report of the Committee on Banking. House Reports, 22d Congress. 1st 

 Session, April, 1832. 572 pages. 



Report of the Debates of the Convention for the Revision of the Consti- 

 tution of the State of Indiana. H. Fowler, Official Reporter. Indianapolis, 

 1850. 



