By the Com for Alb* &ca These are in his Ma*'^ name to Order & appoint you M'^^ Claas Ripse, en J,acob Meesen dihgently to visit, and narrowly inspect the Stockadoes & platformes round & about this City, (with such officers of the Militia as y^ To wne Major shall appoint) and that what shall be found requisite & necessary to be done for y^ better fortifying thereof, you doe by yo^'selves or such as you shall employ forthwith performe & accomplish: Giuen under o^ hands May 12^h & in the second years of his Mamies Reigne Annoq Dom 1690:

By the Com^s for Albany &ca. These are in his Ma^'^s name to order you to examine all houses within this City & County and take an exact Acco* of what powder is in eury psons possession therein, of W^h all the Inhabitants thereof are hereby ordered & Commanded that they do giue you a true acco*of what quantity they haue, & if they or any of them shall conceale any part thereof to be proceeded against as contemnors of his Ma^'^^ Authority, and disaffected to the peace and Security of this City and County afores<^. Dated in Albany the 12^h day of May and in the second yeare of his Ma*'^s Reigne Annoq Dom. 1690:

By the Comi^^ for Albany kc^. *

Forasmuch as it is of high Concern to preserue his Ma^'^s City and County of Albany from the rage and mischief of the French & their adherents, who to o'' sad experience haue made divers attempts upon the skirts of the same: Wee doe therefore Order, and hereby it is ordered that the Posts of Schanechtede, Connestigioene, and the halfe Moone be forthwith supplyed with proper numbers of men to defend the same, and that none do presume to })ost any other forces saving at the three places afores'^ at their