(N^o 16) [Extract of a letter from the Secretary of War to the Governor of Virginia.] War Office, 28 July 1790 "If your Excellency should be of opinion, from the peculiar extent of Russell County, that its situation would require an additional protection to that men-tioned in the enclosure of my letter of the 19^th instant; In that case, the President of the United States consents, to your giving direction to one lieutenant, one ensign, two serjeants, two corporals, and twenty five privates, under the regulations as have been prescribed for the rangers of the other counties" "The orders given by your excellency, in case of an invasion of said county by an inroad of a large body of indians, appears to be perfectly just and proper."