The reasons supplied in the act demanding their revival were apprehension " that Emissaries from the Enemy are lurking in different Parts of the State, and that the disaffected Inhabitants are conspiring against the public Peace and Safety." The commissioners were now to " continue and be in full Force during the Continuance of the present War with Great Britain;" were to receive each for a day's actual service the sum of fourteen shillings " of the Money to be issued, agreeable to the Resolutions of Congress, of the eighteenth Day of March last" [1780]; and the State treasurer was authorized to advance money to them for their expenses, not to exceed in the whole the sum of two thousand pounds.

On the day preceding the adjournment of its third session, namely on July 1, 1780, the legislature passed an act pertaining to the removal of the families of persons who had joined the British. 3 Their habitations served to harbor secret emissaries or conceal members of their families who had come surreptitiously from the British lines " to gain Intelligence and commit Robberies, Thefts and Murders " upon Appendix I: Laws, March 13, 1780. ''Ibid,June 14, 1780. See also Senate Votes. Fish-Kill: Samuel Loudon, 1779, pp. hi, 112, 114, 119. The Assembly Votes of the third sitting of the third session (May 23-July 2, 1780) were not printed. Appendix I: Laws, July 1, 1780.

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the inhabitants of the State. The deportation involved wives and, " at their Discretion," all or any of their children not above die age of twelve years. Their departure was conditioned to be within twenty days after notice. This notification was to be given by the justices of peace resident in each ward, town, manor, precinct and district or, in the absence of or for want of a justice, by the supervisor, and in lieu of both by the commissioners for conspiracies.