Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies, Vol. 1: Albany County Sessions, 1778-1781; 1778-1779
On February 5, 1778, during its first session (1777 the legislature of New York passed its first bill for the creation of a body of Commissioners for detecting and defeating Conspiracies in the State and declaring their powers. The idea was not a new one, for in conserving the State, against the machinations of disaffected, disloyal or even decidely inimical persons, progressive media had been determined and executed by local and county committees, by the Provincial Congresses and Convention and otherwise.
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