;^i,ooo for expenses, 299; charge against captain in Colonel Alden's regi- ment referred to General James Clinton by Albany board, 301; Albany board considers charge against innkeeper of recruiting for British army, 302; two mem- bers of Albany board to assist in effecting exchange of Cherry Valley captives, 304; Albany board adopts measure to pre- vent insurrection among ne- groes, 304; Albany board ex- amines person charged with 1 O reciating continental cur- rency, 305; Albany board asks Charlotte county board to trans- mit charges against former resi- dent of Skenesborough, 306; ;^ioo paid to Isaac D. Fonda, commissioner, on salary account 307; Albany board allows per- son to go to Philadelphia, giving bail for his return, 308; £too paid to Mathew Visscher, com- missioner, on salary account, 308; ^^150 paid to Leonard Gansevoort, Jr., secretary of Albany board, on salary ac- count, 308; Albany board binds John Roff with sureties to re- frain from depreciating con- tinental currency, 310; ;^^42 paid to Cornelius Humphrey, com- missioner, on salary account, dep ( , n 58 State of New York Comrs. for Consp. — continued. 311; £100 paid to John M. Beeckman, commissioner, on salary account, 311; Albany board denies petition that paroled tory be allowed to re- move to Brattleboro, 312-313; Albany board issues warrant for arrest of certain disaffected persons in Rensselaerwyck, 313; j^^43 paid to Hugh Mitchell, commissioner, on salary ac- count, 314; Albany board in- formed of governor's purpose to remove certain persons within enemy's lines unless legis- lature intervenes, 319; £i?>j paid to John M. Beeckman, commissioner, on salary account, 320; £20^ paid to Isaac D. Fonda, commissioner, on salary account, 320; ;^i85 paid to Mathew Visscher, commis- sioner, on salary account, 320; £g'^ paid to Jeremiah Van Rens- selaer, commissioner, on salary account, 320; £60 12s. paid to Jacob Kidney, doorkeeper to Albany board, 320; Albany board takes measures to arrest tories at Peesink, 323-324; Al- bany board causes arrest of persons corresponding with and harboring tories, 324, 325; re- quest for pass to Skenesborough referred to Charlotte county board, 326; Albany board cor- responds with governor on re- moval of wives of disaffected per- Comrs. for Consp. — continued, sons within enemy's lines, 327— 328; Albany board addresses Poughkeepsie board, 328; Gen- . neral Clinton delivers to Al- bany board persons captured on way to join enemy, 329; Charlotte county board sends to Albany board two suspects apprehended on their way to Canada, 330, 346; Albany board receives act amending act af- fecting persons of equivocal and suspected characters, 332; £;^,ooo allowed for expenses of commissioners, 333, 350; com- missioners to administer oatli of allegiance to persons re- fusing and afterward offering to take it, 336; Albany board ex- changes money of certain issues for continental bills, 337; Al- bany board apprised of pro- posals of tories to prevent rob- beries, 341; disrespectful lan- ffuao-.'^ concernino; congress taken note of by Albany board, 345; two persons summoned before Albany board for expressions injurious to its members, 348; Mathew Visscher reports to Albany board state of account with commissary of issues, 348; three hundred and eighty-one pounds of beef due to Albany board from commissary of is- sues, 348; Albany board draws on state treasurer for ;^i,500, 350; Charlotte county board o5 . " \ hiC^I r; i -•■» : I Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies 59 Comrs. for Consp. — continued, apprises Albany board of jour- ney of express from New York to Canada, 351; Albany board takes measures to stop robberies in Helderbergs, 354-355; Al- bany board issues warrant for troublesome tories in Schag-h- ticoke, 357; General Clinton delivers prisoners to Albany board, 360; General Clinton re- quested by Albany board to define nature of crime com- mitted by prisoner, 361; Al- bany board returns prisoner to Poughkeepsie board, 363; Col- onel Du Bois sends to Albany board persons confined at Johnstown, 364; £100 paid to Charlotte county board for ex- penses, 365; Albany board sends soldiers to Helderbergs in search of robbers, 366; Albany board proceeds to Helderbergs to di- rect search for robbers, 367; flour secreted for exportation to be seized by order of Albany board, 371-372; Albany board directs its secretary to give written orders for provisions for prisoners, 375; Albany board recommends raising company of rangers for Helderbergs and Peesink, 377; Albany board inquires into destruction of property on pretense of dis- affection, 388; two hundred dollars paid by Albany board for capture of robbers, 392; Comrs. for Consp. — continued, request to committee of city and county of Albany not to grant passes except on recommen- dation of Albany board, 394; request of Albany board to justices, 394; Albany board pays £222 i6s. for securing prisoners, 397; Albany board receives in- telligence that enemy threatens Catskill and Schoharie,