Several resolutions grew out of this report, among them one requesting the commissioners for conspiracies to lay before the legislature at its next meeting "a State of the Prisoners under the Care of their Boards respectively; a general State of their present Business as Commissioners; the Amount of their unsettled Claims, Expences and Receipts; and a List of such Recognizances entered into before them, as have been forfeited." 1 On February 7, 1783, Assemblyman Jacob Ford, of Albany County, introduced a bill for the repeal of the laws relating to the commissioners for conspiracies, which was read a second time on the 8th and referred to the committee of the whole house, which on the 20th reported progress and desired leave to sit again. It was reported out on March 13 with an altered title and amendments, and ordered engrossed; was read a third time on the 15th, when debates arose, and was passed by a vote of nineteen as against sixteen, or a majority of only three votes; was sent at once to the senate for concurrence; reported back on March 25, with amendments made in senate, which were agreed to by the assembly; whereupon the bill was sent again to the senate for final passage the next day. The council of revision gave its approval on March 27, 1783. 2 Thus, on the day before this sixth legislative session terminated, the powers of the commissioners were repealed 3 and vested in magistrates and courts. Recognizances taken by them, and not forfeited, were to be de- Assembly Votes (sixth session, second meeting), pp. 99, 101, 102. Assembly Voles (sixth session, sixth meeting), pp. 107, 109, 124, 154, 155, 159, 173. 176, 178 \ Senate Votes (sixth session), pp. 142 (two), 156, 160, 163. 'Appendix I: Laws, March 27, 1783