for the security of the frontier, you will do it accordingly taking care always that the numbers so requisded are not more than the nature of the case may require; and that they are again dismissed as soon as the danger is over. But you cannot do a more acceptable service than to endeavour to the utmost of your power to induce the Indians to continue the peace and to calve every attempt to raise a storm— Let this Idea govern all your conduct. Let me know constantly of every transaction of importance. I have the honor to be &^c Major Gaither War Department. June 10^th 1793. Sir, Your letters of the 17^th and 19^th of April, and the 6^th of May have been received with their several enclosures and submitted to the President of the United States. The information which has been received of the depredations of the troops, is extremely mortifying, no just cause for this conduct being known to the Government. It would appear from a letter of the Governor of Georgia that he has called into service a considerable body of Militia and encamped them at Shoulderbone; It is however to be hoped that the necessity for this measure will be of short continuance. But the Governor has been authorized on behalf of the President of the United States to call