Will you kindly furnish through your "Inquiries Answered" department an extract from the Laws of New York under which the Latter Day Saints were organized, and say where in the State the organization took place?

I desire also to know something of certain works on American Indians by two writers, named Adair and Ethan Smith. Please also give me a few sources of information respecting American antiquities.

1. We find nothing in the Statutes of New York relating to any permission granted the Mormons, or of any papers having been filed by them. We do not think it was required of that body (the Latter Day Saints) in organizing to file papers.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was organized in the house of Peter Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca County, New York, April 6, 1830. (Some accounts state that the organization took place in a deserted chapel in Manchester, Ontario Co., N. Y. on the same date.) The Chosen Six comprising the Council were: Joseph Smith (prophet), Oliver Cowdery (scribe), Hiram Smith, Samuel H. Smith, brothers of Joseph, Peter Whitmer, and David Whitmer.

2. James Adair's work, "History of the North American Indians," was published in London in 1775, by Edward and Charles Silly. The author was an agent of the British Government trading with the Indians. He afterwards became a permanent resident among them and spent forty years in the most intimate relations with the tribes of Eastern North America. His book was written while engaged in this work. It is an excellent authority on the manners, language, religious and civil customs, the dwellings and domestic life, of the early Indians. It would be difficult to get a copy of the work now, though it may be seen at some well equipped library.

Ethan Smith's work applies to South American Indians.

We append list of a few works on American antiquities, any of which, we think, are better than the two mentioned. "Prehistoric America," by Marquis Nadaillac, translated by (Mrs.) Nancy R. E. Bell, London, 1845. "American Antiquities," by Alex. W. Bradford, New York, 1845. There is a good deal of information on American Antiquities to be found in Hubert Bancroft's "History of the Pacific Coast." There are 16 vols. of the "American Antiquarian," all of which treat largely of early America. See also the annual reports of the Archæological Institute of America.