On Suggestion of the Goaler Stephen Bell that Jacob Halenbeeck Jun r is sick it is ordered that the said Jacob Halenbeeck Jun r be brought before the Board and that Doctor Samuel Stringer be sent for to examine him Upon the Report of the said Samuel Stringer that the said r Jacob Halenbeeck Jun is very sick and that by his remaining in Confinement his Life will be endangered It is ordered r that the said Jacob Halenbeeck Jun be released from his Confinement on his entering into Recognizance with [172] a sufficient Surety to remain within the House of Samuel Pruyn in this City r Jacob Halenbeeck Jun on Recognizance in -- -- £300 Jacob Ten Eyck of the City of Albany Yeoman his Bail £300 -- -- Captain John Ryley laid before the Board a Pay Roll of the Company of Rangers under his Command from the Time lh of their Inlistment being the ii l May 1778 till 20 Day of h : ;

July now last past amounting in the whole to £460^1 8^4 and the Money heretofore advanced him being substracted therefrom there remains a Ballance due of £ [blank] Ordered that the same be paid to him -- Then Adjourned till to Morrow Morning

Sept. 19. Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 19^ Sept 1778 -- r

Present

John M. Beekman ) ( lsaac D FomJa .

Mathew Visscher ) (

Received a Letter from Robert Benson Esq[ private Secretary to his Excellency the Governor which is dated the 17^