should be wanting to induce the best frontier Citizens to undertake this service, the high rate of five sixths of a dollar per day has been allowed to each scout. Two men or scouts will cover an extent of ten or twelve miles. They are to be mustered upon Oath at the time of their entering and leaving the service — this is essential in order to prevent abuse. Indeed it is essential that all troops who are to be paid by the General Government should be mustered in the same manner by some respectable Magistrate or high Officer of the Militia. If your Excellency should have any Map which may be depended upon of the Creek Country a Copy of it will be of service. I have the honor to be &c. Governor Telfair } [ ^· Note — The enclosures in the preceeding letter of the 30^th of May were — A Schedule of the Pay established by law for the troops in the service of the United States — And an extract of an Act intitled "An Act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States" passed the 5^th day of March 1792] War Department June 10^th 1793 Sir, Your letter of the 8^th of May has been received and submitted to the President of the United States. The State of Georgia has been invaded or in imminent danger thereof, the measures taken by your excellency may be considered as indispensible. You are the judge of the degree of danger, and of its duration and will undoubtedly proportion the defence to exigencies. The President however expresses his confidence, that as soon as the danger which has induced you to call out so large a body of troops shall have subsided, that you will reduce the troops to the existing state of things, indeed to the number mentioned in my letter of the 30^th ultimo — Duplicates of which have been forwarded, provided the safety of the frontiers will admit the measure. The articles mentioned in the enclosed invoice have been Shipped this day on board of the Schooner Peggy Cap^t Shelly, consigned to John Habersham of Savanna, who has been directed to take your orders as to their further distribution. The remainder will be forwarded as soon as prepared so as to complete the number and quantity mentioned in my letter of the 30^th ultimo. As a general and open Creek War in the present crisis of European affairs would be a complicated evil of great magnitude, the President of the United States is anxiously desirous of avoiding such an event, for this purpose he has again directed M^r Seagrove to repair to the heart of the Creek Country, provided the measure can be attempted with any reasonable degree of safety. If a few of the most violent of the depredators could be put to death, it might in the present conjunctures to be considered as satisfactory. I enclose you a copy of the letter which was been written to M^r Seagrove on this occasion. I also enclose a Copy of a letter to the Governor of South Carolina in case circumstances should require you to call for aid from that State. Governor Telfair. } I have the honor to be &c —