[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] copper currency. Hence, an endless number of " shinplasters " and private bills, for fractional parts of a dollar were put in circulation. The writer has in his collection small bills of this kind which were issued by "the corporation of the city of Albany/' payable to the bearer on demand, for three, six, and nine cents, dated January 10, 1815. Also similar bills of the corporation of "the Stanford Manufacturing Company," of Dutchess County, N.Y., dated " 2d mo. 4th, 1815." He has also a series of bills, four and one-quarter inches long by two inches in width, of three, twelve and one-half, twenty-five, and fifty cents, which were issued " by order ofthe corporation of Sing Sing, Westchester County," which promised to pay to the bearer, on demand, the sums specified, in current bank-notes, January 20, 1816; signed George Karr. They were printed by " J. A. Cameron, print., Sing Sing," on one side only. During the War of the Rebellion several of our business men issued small bills for five, ten, twenty-five, and fifty cents, which were made payable at the banking office of C. F. Maurice & Co. The collection referred to contains series of these handsomely en-graved bills of various dates in July, 1862, signed by