(No 14) Extract of a letter from the Secretary of War ______________ to Governor St. Clair, dated War-Office July 20th 1790. _________ per post. The high pay of the Scouts, which on a sudden emergency were permitted, and there being no provision for their payment, the rangers being substituted in their place, and the general measures directed in my letter of the 7th of last month, are considered as sufficient reasons for revoking the authority for calling out, at the expence of the union, so expensive a species of troops as Said Scouts.
The enclosed circular letter, therefore has been written to the Lieutenants or commanding officers of the counties of Washington in Pennsylvania, and Harrison, Randolph, Ohio, Monongahalia, & Kenhawa in Virginia & Mason, Bourbon, Woodford, Madison, Lincoln, Mercer, Nelson & Jefferson in Kentucky.
And the governor of Virginia has a conditional authority delegated to him, respecting the counties of Wythe, Russel and Washington in Virginia.
The letters for the upper counties on the Ohio, have been forwarded by way of Fort Pitt Fort Pitt under the direction of Lieutenant Ernest — the letters for Kentucky to Judge Innes" Extracts of a letter from the Secretary of War, to the honorable Judge Innes, of Kentuckey dated 29th July 1790.
Sir “I have the honor to acknowledge that on the 8th instant I received your favor of the 13th of May last, in which was enclosed a copy of your circular letter to the lieutenants or commanding officers of the counties of Mason, Bourbon, Woodford, Maddison, Lincoln, Mercer, Nelson, and Jefferson.
The measure of employing the Scouts at such an expence, was adopted, at a moment which was conceived to be urgent, and not admitting of delay; but it was intended only as a temporary expedient, until other arrangements could be taken. The President of the United States, had it then in contemplation to take further steps