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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-