Extract from the Instructions of the Sec^y of War to Major General Charles Scott. May 19^th 1794 — You having been appointed temporarily a Major General for the purpose of commanding the Body of Kentucky Militia to be raised in Kentucky to reinforce the army under the Command of Major General Wayne you are to regard these instructions which have been approved by the President of the United States as the General Principles to govern your conduct. The President has also been pleased to appoint temporarily two Brigadiers to assist you in this arduous undertaking towit — Robert Fivie and Thomas Barbee. but you will understand that if Major General Wayne shall have called into Service one or two Brigadiers the latter of appointments to one or both of the above mentioned Brigadiers are not to be retained, as the Case may be — Major General Wayne was on the 30^th of last March authorized to cause into Service such a Number of Mounted Volunteers as he should judge necessary. It is therefore to be understood, and you are to govern yourself accordingly, that whatever number he may have called into Service in pursuance of the said authority and the time period at are herein contemplated are to be deducted from the two thousand aforesaid by these Instructions — At Fort Washington you will learn most probably whether he has requested the Volunteers and the number thereof — And the distance that General Wayne will probably be from Fort Washington, and the country there is so long will oblige every moment of time so precious that you would refine and reduce in Kentucky the following Provisionary arrangements also to be [undecipherable] on receiving his Sanction — 1^st That two thousand two hundred and four men be engaged for the period of four months from the time of arriving at the Head quarters of the Army to be sooner discharged sooner at the discretion of the Commander in Chief — But from this number such a Proportion of officers is to be deducted as will arise by Provisioning out of the same for the Pay of officers & Expences — 2^d That the said number be organized into a Legion of two Regiments — two Brigades — each Commanded by one Brigadier General and formed into three Battalions each commanded by a Major and consisting of four Companies each of one Captain — one Lieutenant — one Ensign — two Sergeants — Four Corporals and Seventy five Privates. This arrangement would therefore amount to two Regiments or Brigades — of six Battalions and twenty four Companies, each of Eighty nine non commissioned officers Privates and Eight Commissioned — The orders of the Troops as well as the nature of the Service might require a greater Fifty more of Officers, but as it is apprehended that the [undecipherable] will not warrant [undecipherable] allowances. The Law however being obscure on this Subject it cannot [undecipherable] that the Law [undecipherable] or Adjutants may be allowed — place them not to be [undecipherable] & extend the extra pay [undecipherable] the offices of like description in the Line — Subaltings [undecipherable] may be raised from the privates but in this respect [undecipherable] of receiving no higher Pay — 3^d Confirm Commissions or offer the Governors Bounties or to form a Board for the purpose to his Subordinate Officers. Provided the said Brigadiers shall accept this appointment but if either decline the Governor or the Brigadier who would desire to [undecipherable] appoint a Brigadier in the room of the one who declines. If two Brigadiers should refuse to accept their Commission and you are to appoint both the Governors or the act or more or in other [undecipherable] with the opinion of the Corps of Volunteers are as is [undecipherable] and so [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] that the utmost Harmony [undecipherable] would thereby take the Branch — So soon as with General Wayne the Place you write to at or near his Lines, and the terms to you shall ascertain then you will make your definitive arrangements for the