The deportation involved wives and, " at their Discretion," all or any of their children not above die age of twelve years. Their departure was conditioned to be within twenty days after notice. This notification was to be given by the justices of peace resident in each ward, town, manor, precinct and district or, in the absence of or for want of a justice, by the supervisor, and in lieu of both by the commissioners for conspiracies. But any three commissioners could issue permits and put an estoppel upon removal. As soon as a justice of the peace or a supervisor notified persons to depart, certification of their names and characters was to be given to some one board of the commissioners. The next year, by the act of March 22, 1781,' the commissioners,and each of them, or such person or persons as were authorized by the governor, had power to order the wives of tories to depart the State, in like manner entrusted to justices of the peace and supervisors by the act of July 1, 1780. This new function gave them authority "to take and sell all the Goods and Chattels in the Possession of the Wives of Persons who have voluntarily gone over to and joined, or shall hereafter go over to and join the Enemy, and to apply the Monies arising therefrom, to defraying the Expence of removing such Wives, and such of their respective Children as are not above twelve Years of Age, within the Lines of the Enemy." An accounting of such sales and expenditures was required to be lodged with the auditorgeneral of the State. During the second meeting of the fourth session a number of representations, which ventilated grievances, were received by both houses of the legislature from different