[Copy] By the United States in Congress Assembled August 12^th 1788 Resolved That the Executives of Virginia and Pennsylvania be requested to give orders to the Militia of their respective frontiers to hold themselves in readiness to unite with the federal troops in such operations as the Governor of the Western Territory may judge necessary for the protection of the Inhabitants; and that on application of the said Governor, the said executives be requested to give orders that parts of their said Militia not exceeding one thousand for Virginia and five hundred for Pennsylvania be embodied; and take such positions as the Commanding Officer of the Federal Troops shall direct for acting in conjunction with the said federal troops in protecting and defending the frontiers against any hostilities commenced or meditated by the Indians, and in making such expeditions should they continue hostile as the said Governor shall direct for repelling such hostilities. That the Militia which shall be called into actual Service of the United States for the defence of the frontier inhabitants or the purposes of any expedition, shall be paid supported and equipped by the States from which the same may be respectively called, and that such State be credited for the same out of the existing Specie requisitions, so far as such expenditures shall be for pay and rations, which are to be computed on the Federal Establishments for Similar fermices; provided that no charge for such Service shall be valid unless Supported by musters made by an Officer of the Federal Troop, agreeably to the orders of the Commanding Officer. That the said Governor be informed that the foregoing Resolution having been taken by Congress on an apprehension that a War may be inevitable, he is to consider it, as their earnest desire that all hostile measures be avoided. unless rendered indispensible to the safety and protection of the Citizens of the United States. RESOLVED That the Commissioners for Indian Treaties be instructed in the farther purchases of Indian rights to lands to extend the same as far as to them shall appear for the advantage of the United States, upon considering all circumstances any former instructions prescribing certain limits notwithstanding. (Attest) Chas: Thomson Secy. (A true Copy W: Knox.