Primary tabs
Messrs˙ Abraham Ten Broeck, Jacob Cuyler, and Robert Yates, Deputies for the City and County of Albany, produced a Certificate from the Committee of the City of Albany, which is in the words following, to wit:
"Albany Committee Chamber, August 16, 1775.
"Whereas the endeavours of this Committee, in collecting the accounts and charges of this County, chiefly accrued by the recommendation of this Committee, have as yet proved ineffectual, and sundry people are daily very pressing for their money,
"Be it Resolved, by this Committee, immediately to apply to the Provincial Congress, by Draft, for One Thousand Pounds, to enable them to discharge such of their
"MAT˙ VISSCHER, Clerk."
The same gentlemen, Deputies from Albany, produced the Draft mentioned in the said Resolve of the Committee of Albany, which is in the words following, to wit:
"Albany Committee Chamber, August 16, 1775.
"GENTLEMEN: Please to pay to Messrs˙ Abraham Ten Broeck, Jacob Cuyler, and Robert Yates, or either of them, or order, the sum of One Thousand Pounds, for the use of this Committee, to be applied towards defraying part of the publick charge, as per advice of a resolve from the Committee. We are, Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servants. By order of the Committee:
"ABRAHAM YATES, JUN˙, Chairman.
"To the Provincial Congress of New-York."
Ordered, That Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Esq˙, pay to Abraham Ten Broeck, Jacob Cuyler, and Robert Yates, or either of them, or their order, One Thousand Pounds, on account of the use of the Committee of Albany, to be applied towards defraying the publick charge accrued in that part of the Colony, and take a receipt for the same.
Certificate from the Committee at Albany
v3:546
v3:547
debts as are now most pressing, and that the said Committee shall hereafter lay before the Congress proper vouchers for such disbursements. A true copy from the minutes: