number exceed eighteen 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. N^o8. War Office 18th April 1790 To the Lieutenant of Washington county in Pennsylvania Sir A copy of a letter signed by Alexander Addison, James Ross, Thomas Ryerson, and Henry Taylor, four inhabitants of Washington county, and dated the 25^th of January last, has been transmitted by his Excellency Thomas Mifflin Esquire, to the President of the United States, and by him laid before the Congress, together with other papers of the same nature. From this letter it appears that the inhabitants of the said county, are exposed to the incursions of Indians, in like manner to the inhabitants of the counties of Virginia lying along the upper parts of the Ohio. The President of the united States having been induced, on the application of some of the said counties, to direct me to empower the lieutenants of said counties, to employ certain patroles termed Scouts for the protection thereof, and as it is his desire, that the protection should be extended to all the exposed frontiers, he has directed me to transmit you a discretionary power, in the like manner as has been transmitted to the counties of Virginia. I do therefore, Sir, in the name of the President of the United States, authorize you, if in your judgement, the appearances of danger are such as to require the measure, to call forth the Scouts herein mentioned, and under the regulations described.