The appropriation bill, enacted October 25, 1779, granted to the commissioners, or any three of them, an additional sum of money, not to exceed in all three thousand pounds, " to defray the Expence of the Business committed to them." 2 An attempt made in assembly, on February 18, 1780, to introduce a bill for reviving the commissioners, the act of October I, was defeated. 3 Among 1779, having expired, certain resolutions passed in assembly, on March 10, 1780, was one recommending the creation of a joint committee of three assemblymen and two senators, to examine and adjust particular public accounts during the recess of the legislature, including the accounts of the commissioners for conspiracies. The intention was to have this committee render a report to the next meeting of the legislature. When it reached the senate, only one member, Sir James Jay, voted in the affirmative.

•Appendix I: Laws, Oct. 1, 1779. See also Assembly Votes. Fish-Kill: Samuel Loudon, 1779, pp. 20, 22, 29, 33, 36, 37, 41, 47; Senate Votes. Fish- Kill: Samuel Loudon, 1779, pp. 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30. Laws oj New York. Poughkeepsie: John Holt, 1782, p. 99. See also Assembly Votes. Fish-Kill: Samuel Loudon, 1779, pp. 79-80. Assembly Votes. Fish-Kill: Samuel Loudon, 1779, p. 117. Assembly Votes. Idem, p. 149; Senate Votes. Idem, pp. 101-102; Assembly Papers -- Miscellaneous, vol. 2, p. 196.

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On March 13, 1780, an act was passed, relative to British