Kingston: John Holt, 1777, pp. 17, 18, 19-20, 28, 38, 40, 41, 44, 45. The title-pages of the votes were printed with the first signatures and before a volume was completed; hence they actually bear dates earlier than the contents of their respective volumes. This accounts for what might seem to be an incongruous citation ' Senate Votes, cited supra, pp. 90, 91, 106, 108; Assembly Votes, cited supra, pp. 104, 105, to6, 107. 'Appendix I: Laws, April 3, 1778.

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whom there was " great Reason to believe " that they communicated material information to the enemy, the legison April 1778, passed an act empowering the lature, i,

governor or " person administering the Government " of the State for the time being, to exercise his judgment " for the public Safety, to cause all such dangerous disaffected Persons and Families, as now are, or hereafter shall happen to be resident at or near any Post, Pass or Encampment, within this State, to be removed to such other Place or Places within the same, as he shall deem expedient." He was obliged to " certify the Names of such Persons so removed, and a Description of the Houses and Farms, from which they shall be removed respectively, to the Commissioners of Sequestration of the County, to which such Persons shall be removed." These persons were to be put in possession of sequestered farms or houses in the new county, upon a moderate rental, and with due regard of the value of their own farms or houses which they had left behind them; but they were in no wise to gain a residence in the new district, nor become a charge for maintenance therein. The application of lenient measures for the suppression of disaffection was ineffectual. It was found that many