Report of the Secretary at War Relative to Intruders on Public Lands.

Knox says that the country is liable to be disappointed in their just expectations of the great national advantages resulting from a wise administration of the western territory, by the evils of usurpation and intrusion, than by any other causes. Says that the usurpation of public lands must be curbed before the numbers become unmanageable. Opinion is that commanding officers on the Ohio River should have authority to dispossess the party of men reported by Major Wyllys to have established at St. Vincents.