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and doing such Sendees as should be requested of them", until the last day of October following. They were to receive six shillings per day and one ration of provisions, and promised "to obey the Orders of said Commissioners or any three of them and the Orders of such Officers as they may think proper to set over us." Before entrance upon the servmember was required to take the oath of allegiance. ice, each

On May 8, Ryley and his men appeared before the board to

receive their instructions, and were sent to Kinderhook, there to await orders from one of the commissioners, before proceeding to Coxsackie to execute them. From time to time Ryley was instructed to apprehend persons, particularly those suspected of or known to have taken part in robberies, and to search for stolen property. He also brought in

Hessian deserters and others on his own account. On June 13, the board notified the commissioners at Poughkeepsie that it had been "under Necessity to raise a Party of 15 Rangers", to whom was paid six shillings per day and rations, and asked how much allowance the Poughkeepsie board made "to such Parties of the Militia as bring in Prisoners". On the same day application was made for a party of continental troops as an additional guard, to be under the direction of Captain Ryley, and for a bateau for the guard. Two hundred dollars were ordered to be paid to Ryley on account, on June 18. The board applied to the assemblymen from Albany County', on June 20, "to endeavour to procure an Act for the Purpose of raising another Company of Rangers", to be under their command. On June 22, Captain Ryley presented a pay'-roll to date of £283 19s., which was allowed, minus the amount paid before on account.