(N^o 1) War Office 15^th April, 1790. To Robert Johnson Lieutenant of woodford county. Sir Your two letters of the 13^th of February and the 10th day of march last have been received. As the President of the united States is desirous of receiving authentick infor— mation from all parts of the union requiring has his attention, your letters were submitted to him. The State of facts in your first letter has been generally corroborated by other accounts, But the information contained in your second letter, of a settlement being broken up between the Sciota and lime Stone, is more recent than any other received from the ohio The President of the united States anxious that the exposed inhabitants of the frontiers should be protected against the incursions of the Indians, directed on the 5^th of march last that a conditional authority should be vested in the governor of the Western Territory or in case of his absence the commanding officer to empower the lieutenants of the counties lying along the ohio to call out at the expence of the union certain scouts for the protection of said counties The letters on this subject to the gover- nor or commanding officer, were committed to colonel Duvat Lieutenant of Harrison county who being much interested in the measure, it is presumed, took effectual measures that it should be expeditiously conveyed. But lest any delay should have hap- pened, the President of the united States has this day directed, that Harry Innes esquire district judge should be invested with this authority, under the regulations prescribed to the governor or commanding officer aforesaid. The purport of this authority so vested is, that in case he should be of opinion that the measures should be necessary, he is au- thorised to empower the county lieutenants to call out, at the expence of the united States a certain number of men termed scouts, in the usual numbers and on the terms heretofore laid by virginia. Provided that in no instance the number exceed eight men for each county. The abstracts for pay and rations to be transmitted to Brigadier general Harmar, through whose paymaster the money will be paid and received.