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What is an index?

Chapter 14: INDEXES TO PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC BODIES.
By Henry B. Wheatley
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The pamphlet opens with a historical survey of the word index and its shifting meanings, tracing early usages, notable opinions, and illustrative specimens; it then provides practical guidance on making indexes, covering compilation techniques, concise and accurate headings, alphabetical order versus classification, treatment of names and prefixes, cross-references, and frequent errors; examples and critiques are used throughout to show good and bad practice and to argue for organized efforts to improve indexing standards.

INDEXES TO PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC BODIES.

Boston [Mass.] (City of).—Index to the City Documents, from 1834 to 1865. Boston, 1866. Pp. 39.

—— from 1834 to 1874. Boston, 1875.

Canada.—General Index to the Journals of the Legislative Assembly of Canada, in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Parliaments, 1841-1851. By Alfred Todd. Montreal, 1855. Fol. pp. 575.

Courts of Equity, etc.—An Index to all the reported Cases decided in the several Courts of Equity in England and Ireland, the Privy Council, and the House of Lords; and to the Statutes on or relating to the Principles, Pleading and Practice of Equity and Bankruptcy; from the earliest period. By Edward Chitty. In four volumes. London, 1853. 8vo.

In double columns.

Rotuli Parliamentorum.—Index to the Rolls of Parliament, comprising the Petitions, Pleas and Proceedings of Parliament, from Ann. 6 Edw. I. to Ann. 19 Hen. VI. (A.D. 1278-A.D. 1503). Prepared and edited by order of a Committee of the House of Lords, in part by the Rev. John Strachey and the Rev. John Pridden, and completed by Edward Upham. London, 1832. Folio, title, preface 1 leaf, pp. 1036.

In one alphabet.

Scotland, Free Church.—Handbook and Index to the principal acts of assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 1843-1868. Edinburgh, 1869. 12mo. pp. 63.

—— Parliaments.—General Index to the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, to which is prefixed a supplement to the Acts printed by authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, M.DCCC.LXXV. large folio, preface, etc., x. Chronological Table of the supplement to the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, xi. pp. xxiii, 1255.

In double columns.