their Cloathing and Household Furniture The Charges of Transportation to the Enemies is to be defrayed by themselves -- Application being made to the Board by James Knowles to be eliberated on Account of his being sick and he being a Person whose Evidence may be of the utmost Consequence to the State Resolved therefore that the said James Knowles be continued in Confinement and that a Weekly Allowance of 2 Dollars for his Subsistence be given him during his Illness

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1778 The Board taking into their Consideration the Allowance Aug. 3. made to their Secretary and judging the same inadequate to his Services do resolve that he be allowed from the Time of

his entering into our Service and during his further Continuance therein the Sum of Twenty Shillings per Day it being the same Pay allowed by the Commissioners at Poughkeepsie -- 1

Then Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning

Aug. 4. Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 4 t h . August 1778 Present John M. Beekman ) ( Isaac D. Fonda Jeremiah Van Renselaer j [ Mat. Visscher

John Waters who was some Time since bound by Recognizance not to depart beyond the Limits of this City appeared before the Board and informed us that he had procured a sufficient Bail Ordered that he [126] together with his Bail be bound by another Recognizance and permited to go at large in this County on his good Behaviour and Monthly

Appearance and that the first Recognizance be utterly void and of no Effect