From the frequent complaints which are exhibited to this Board that the wives of such disaffected Persons who are gone over to the Enemy daily harbour Persons who through fear of being punished for their Crimes against the State conceal themselves & their holding Correspondance with their Husbands it is conceived necessary that some mode should be adopted to prevent this evil & as the removing them within the Lines of the enemy would be the only

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1779 effectual Remedy to prevent such Practises in future there- Apr. 15. fore Resolved that a Letter be wrote to his Excellency the Governor on this subject which Letter is in the words following (to wit) (see Letter on File) Resolved that a Letter be wrote to the Commissioner[s] for Conspiracies at Poughkeepsie which Letter is in the words following (to wit) (See draught Letter on File)

Adjourned -- 1779 Met Albany 20^ April 1779 Apr. 20. Present

John M. Beeckman J Isaac ^ D. Fonda Jeremiah Van Rensselaer )

A Letter from Lieu *. Philip Conine of Colonel [32] Gansevoort's Regiment was laid before the Board informing us that he has been at Pecsink in search of a Party of Robbers and is returned to Niscuthaw and requesting the further direction of this Board which Letter is in the words following (to wit) (see Letter on file) -- Resolved that an Answer be wrote to the Letter received from Lieu- Conine in the words following (to wit) (see on File) A Letter from his Excellency the Governor dated 17- Instant was laid before the Board on the Subject of the Letter wrote him on the 15^ Instant which is in the words to