[2] A Return of the prisoners Confined in the City Gait being laid before this Board and thereupon Resolved that Letters be wrote to the district Committees from whence Said prisoners were Sent, to furnish the Commissioners with their Several Crimes which was wrote in the woords following (prout) As als[o] Letters to the Commissioners Appointed in Tryon County, and those in this & Charlotte County, in the woords following (prout) -- Requesting their Speedy attendance at this place Resolved That a Letter be prepared to Mess ? Benson, 1

Platt and Cantine, acknowledging the Receipt of the Acts and Commission and requesting them to receive for and transmit to the Commissioners of this County the Sum of one thousand Pounds out of the Treasury of this State which Letter is in the following words to wit (prout)

1778 April 14 th Apr. 14. Present

John M Beeckman I Jer V Rensselaer Isaac D. Fonda ) Math"' Visher These signatures were attached to the oath from tim" to time, whenever a commissioner qualified.

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Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 81

A petition from the officers of Cambridge district & a 1778 Apr. 14. Letter from John Younglove in Behalf of Ebenezer Allen, who had been a prisoner with Burgoyne's Army, and deserted from thence, Iinediately after the Second Battle of Sarratogo: presented by himself praying to be Reinstated in his Countery's favour, thereupon Resolved, that he be dismissed from any farther prosicution he taking the Oath of fidelity to the State It appearing to this Board that the Committee of Saratoga District had ordered several of the Inhabitants of that District to depart the same, and otherwise proceeded illegally against Persons suspected, to be Inimical to the Cause of America Thereupon Resolved [3] T hat a Letter be prepared to saidCommittee which was done in the words following to wit (prout) Rec d the proceedings of a Committee from Charlottee County ordering Titus Meriman & Another to Convey from d this Goal one William "Filer to be tryed before S Committee