[Extract of a letter from the Secretary of War to the Governor of Virginia] War Office, 28^th July 1790^o "If your Excellency should be of opinion, from the peculiar extent of Russell County, that its fituation would require an additional protection to that mentioned in the enclosure of my letter of the 19^th instant: In that cafe, the President of the United States consents, to your giving direction to one lieutenant, one enfign, two ferjeants, two corporals, and twenty fix privates, under the regulations as have been prescribed for the rangers of the other counties." "The orders given by your excellency in cafe of an invafion of faid county by an inroad of a large body of indians, appears to be perfectly just and proper."