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, 401; General Ten Broeck advised by Albany board to order out one eighth of militia brigade, 401; persons on recognizance noti- fied to appear before Albany board, 402; General Schuyler informs AJ.bany board of action of tories at Palmertown, 405; Albany board advised by Gen- eral Schuyler to hold meeting at Saratoga, 405; Albany board asked to make return of pris- oners in its charge to deputy commissary of prisoners, 407; expens^|. of Albany board at Saratoga, 410; £2S 12s. paid to Jacob Slingerlandt for serv- vices to Albany board, 410; Al- bany board asks specification of charges against prisoners from Tryon county, 412; Albany board sends deserter to General Washington, 412; Governor Clinton requested by Albany board to send wife of tory to Canada, 414; Albany board in- formed that disaffected persons are believed to be in league with 6o State of New York Comrs. for Consp. — continued, enemy's scouting parties, 416; Albany board seeks to have dis- affected persons at Newtown apprehended, 417; commission- ers at Esopus asked by Albany board to apprehend supposed robber, 418; act for appointing, expires, 422-423; act for in- creasing number of, expires, 422-423; these acts revived, 423; state treasurer authorized to pay ;^4,ooo to, 423 ; powers of, soon to expire, 438, powers of, revived, 438 (note), 440-441; persons having claims for serv- ices to Albany board desired to present accounts, 438-439; fourteen shillings per diem al- lowed to each of, by act of June 14, 1780, 441; i^2,ooo allowed for expenses of, 441; secretary of Albany board to receive the same pay as secretary of Pough- keepsie board, 441 ; pay of door- keeper to Albany board, 441; secretaiy of Albany board pre- pares list of persons bound by recognizance, with amounts in which they were bound, 441- 442, 445; Albany board requires list of prisoners, with causes of committal and names of majj- istrates committing, 443; par- ties of men required to execute orders of Albany board, 443- 444; persons bound by recog- nizance ordered to appear be- fore Albany board on specified Comrs. for Consp. — continued. day, 445; commanding officers of militia requested to furnish returns of regiments by com- panies to Albany board, 445; account of Leonard Ganse- voort, jr., allowed for paper for Albany board, 446; suspicious characters travelino; through Al- bany to be deterred and their names reported to Albany board, 451; Shakers deny authority of Albany board, 452; arrest of Shaker ordered by Albany board, 453; appointment of Samuel Stringer as commis- sioner certified to Albany board, 453-454; Albany board takes note of slanderous attack on Washington and congress, 454, 455; Albany board informed of intention of negroes at Half Moon to go to Canada, 454- 455; Hessian prisoner forwarded to Albany board, 457; effort to rel§.;j^se tw^o prisoners by habeas corpus defeated by mittimus of Albany board, 458; dangerous persons not to be released by Albany board without notice to Lieutenant Colonel Henry K. Van Rensselaer, 458; Albany board requires increase in amount of recojrnizances to off- set depreciation of. currency, 459-460; Albany board resolves to meet at Newtown and Still- water, 460; course of conduct toward Shakers suggested by ''-il bt'i K ^■1 Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies 6i Cotnrs. for Consp. — continued. Albany board to justice of peace, 461; Reyneir Mynderse and Abraham Oothout to take oath of, 465; new commissioners asked to transmit intelligence to Albany board, 465; report of commissioners who held meet- ings at Stillwater, 466-467; copy of Peter Van Campen's exam- ination sent to Governor Clinton by Albany board, 467; commis- sioners at Schenectady fonvard to Albany board fourteen per- sons attempting to join enemy or assisting with provisions, 468; commissioners at Schenectady forward three other persons, 468; Governor Clinton writes to Albany board, 471; commis- sioners at Schenectady require tory to remove to Albany, 471; examinations of persons sent to jail by commissioners at Schen- ectady laid before Albany board, 472; commissary of prisoners writes to Albany board about Henry Van Schaack and others, 472, 476, 477; Albany board will reimprison persons on bail in order to expedite exchange, 473; Albany board will send tories to Fishkill for exchange, 477-478, 482, 484; Albany board