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Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York

Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York, 1778-1781. Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 1924-1925. Originally compiled 1778-1781, first published 1909-1925. 323 words

Be it enacted by the People of the State of New ^ ork represented in Senate and Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the Same that the said two Acts and the Powers & Authorities by them or either of them granted to the saidCommissioners or any and every three of them Shall be and are hereby revived & shall Continue & be in full Force until twenty Days after the first day of the next Meeting of a Quorum of the Legislature & the 1 reasurer of this State is hereby Authorized and required out of such Monies as may he in the Treasury to pay to the said Commissioners or any three of them such further Sum or Sums as they Shall from time to time require to defray the Expence of the said Business Committed to them So as the Amount of such Sum or Sums Shall not in the whole Exceed the Sum of four thousand Pounds -- And whereas the Said Commissioners or some Quorum or Quorums of them may have done and performed divers Acts Matters and things in & respecting their Several & respective Offices and Places since the Expiration of the Said Laws & by Reason thereof the Legality and Volidity or [rzr] the said Acts Matters and Things may be drawn into Question -- be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and Singular the said Acts Matters & things Shall be as good valid and effectual in the Law to all Intents Constructions & Purposes whatsoever as if the said Laws had not expired by their own respective Limitations [12 1] but been in full Force and Effect at and immediately before the passing of this Law any thing in the said Laws or either of them to the Contrary hereof in any wise Notwithstanding And whereas in and bv the said two recited Acts no Pro-