Powers of the Commissioners for Conspiracies having Authorized the said Commissioners to draw on the Treasurer of the said State for three thousand Pounds -- resolved inConsequence of the said Act that an order be drawn on Gerard Bancker Esq'' for fifteen hundred Pounds to defray the necessary Expenditures of this Board 2 Resolved that a Letter be wrote to Dirck Gardinier from this Board who has had Permission to go to Kinderhook on Account of the difficult Situation of his Family to repair forthwith to Schodack the Place of his Confinement -- Adjourned -- [55] Met Albany 2-- June 1779 June 2. Present

John M. Beeckman ) ^ Isaac D. Fonda Jeremiah Van Rensselaer j l Hugh Mitchell

Cap- Nicholas Staats appearing before the Board informed us that he has seen a certain Jurie Kolenbergh a Deserter from Burgoyne's Army in the Woods in Company with two Persons who he suspected to be Spies from the Enemy Resolved in Consequence of the above Information that a Appendix I: Laws, February 17, 1779. The original receipt is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 157, State Comptroller's office.

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Warrant be made out directed to the said Nicholas Staats 1779 June 2. forthwith to apprehend and bring before us the said Jurie Kolenbergh -- A Letter from Cornelius Humphrey Esq- dated I? Instant 1

was laid before the Board which Letter is in the words following (to wit) (see Letter on File) -- Resolved that an answer be wrote to the above Letter of Mf Humphrey in the words following (to wit) (see Copy Letter on File) A Letter from the Commissioners for Conspiracies of Charlotte County was laid before the Board wherein they inform us that an Express from New York is lately gone to Canada and requesting our Advice in what Manner it would he best to proceed to apprehend the said Express in his Return to New York -- Resolved that the said Commissioners be informed that the Board will enter into the Consideration of their Letter and will endeavour to devise means to apprehend the above mentioned Express -- [56] In Consequence of the Information of George White Esqf a Warrant having been made out directed to Isaac Sheldon Constable for the Apprehension of Robert Martin and the said Isaac Sheldon having agreeable to the said warrant apprehended and brought before the Board the said Robert Martin -- Resolved that the said Robert Martin be committed and that a Mittimus be made out for him -- Adjourned -- Met Albany 3 d June 1779 1779 June 3.