Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
Pg [7]: ‘the lands abovereserved,’ replaced by ‘the lands above reserved,’.
Pg [64]: ‘the great dependancies’ replaced by ‘the great dependencies’.
Pg [101]: ‘held a meeeting’ replaced by ‘held a meeting’.
Pg [185]: ‘town of Springfield; In’ replaced by ‘town of Springfield; in’.
Pg [218]: ‘their bona fide debts’ replaced by ‘their bonâ fide debts’.
Pg [222]: ‘were finally withdran’ replaced by ‘were finally withdrawn’.
Pg [309]: ‘as confidential sercetary’ replaced by ‘as confidential secretary’.