PAGE FRONT VIEW OF OFFICE BUILDING, .......... Frontspiece. CHARLES PLATT, ....................... 7 FIRST OFFICE OF THE COMPANY (etching by Joseph PennelD, ... 9 FIRST PAGE OF MINUTES OF THE BOARD, ............ 12 EARLY MARINE POLICY or COMPANY, 1793, ........... 17 EARLY MARINE POLICY OF BROKERS, 1795, ........... 26 EARLY FIRE POLICY OF COMPANY, 1795, ............ 32 PAGF, OF ORIGINAL BILL PRESENTED TO LEGISLATURE, ...... 35 A PAGE OF STOCK SUBSCRIPTIONS, ............... 40 FIRST PAGE OF MARINE BLOTTER, ............... 47 MARINE POLICY OF COMPANY, 1795, .............. 50 AN OLD COMMITTEE, ..................... 56 FIRST PAGE OF FIRE BLOTTER, ................ 62 PROPOSALS FOR FIRE INSURANCE, ................ 64 FIRE POLICY OF COMPANY, 1809, ................ 68 FIRST RECEIPT FOR RENT OF OFFICE, .............. 77 FRONT VIEW OF OFFICE BUILDING, 1879 (from pen sketch by J. Pennell), 90 EBENEZER HAZARD (from miniature by Duvivier, 1796), ..... 96 CHARLES PETTIT (from portrait by Gilbert Stuart), ....... 109 JOHN INSKEEP (from portrait by Rembrandt Peale), ....... 116 JOHN C. SMITH (from miniature), ............... 118 ARTHUR G. COFFIN (from portrait by S. B. Waugh), ....... 120 GRAND STAIRCASE, ...................... 123 MAIN OFFICE, ........................ 137 (5)