also wrote occasional minutes, from time to time, in 1778, apparently during the temporary absence of the secretary. Apparently Gansevoort wrote all of the minutes, with the exceptions mentioned, save a portion of the rough minutes, which begin on June 29, 1779, in a handwriting that has not been determined; but interpolations and other revisions of this drafted section are Gansevoort's. A large part of the minutes, especially pp. 1-79 and 135-489 of the second volume, is wholly a clean secretarial transcript. 1'here

are a number of psychological evidences of transcription, such as erratic copying which required erasures, and the dating of a board meeting of June 28, 1779, as June 28, 1782, with a correction to agree with the former date. From this we may reasonably conclude that some of the clean copy, at least, was done in 1782. There is also another entry in which the year 1780 is written erroneously as 1781. The inserted rough minutes, pp. 80-134 (modern numeration) of the second volume, the transcriber had begun to

copy, but he did not get beyond the heading of June 30,

1779, on p. 80, which has a contemporary designation as p. 49. In addition to the financial accounts, already alluded to, and more specifically correlated in foot-notes to this work, we find among the George Clinton Papers in the archives ,

of the New York State Library, a few original letters that were sent by the Albany commissioners to Governor Clinton, Mathew Visscher had been secretary of the Committee of the City and County of Albany, prior to his appointment as a member of the Albany board of commissioners-