[undecipherable: page wholly or in part illegible per repository notation] [Copy] Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of War of the United States to the Governor of Pennsylvania. Dated War Office April 25^th 1795 Sir, On the 18^th Instant, a message from the [undecipherable] of the 8^th addressed to the President of the United States, covering an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania [undecipherable] arming and equipping at the expence [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] on the member States [undecipherable] [undecipherable] ought to be [undecipherable] independent [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] parties to the Interior for the [advantage?] and [convenience?] of the frontier States. The President being in Virginia, [I] take the liberty to give you a [letter?] on the [few?] propositions made on your [part?]. [If?] you are [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to make a number of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] troops [undecipherable], [undecipherable] you shall deem necessary [undecipherable] the State of Pennsylvania — as set forth in the act — to serve right [undecipherable] [undecipherable] sooner discharged. If the [State?] [undecipherable] — the [convenience?] of stipulating — on the part of the United States, to reimburse them for pay [undecipherable] to contribute them [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [preparation?] of their [undecipherable] expensively as [organized?]. 2^d. [undecipherable] you [for?] the use of the Department of the State troops [formed?] [undecipherable] respected the State [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in laying [undecipherable] [devout?] [undecipherable] responsibility, on the State until that devour [has?] [be?] accomplished. Nevertheless. 3^d. [undecipherable] the General Government is directed to [undecipherable] during the present year, a Post and [garrison?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to station a party of Federal troops [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] perhaps not be [required?] to [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], the number of troops necessary for these [purposes?] [undecipherable] be very desirable that the State troops should be enlisted, according to the terms of the act, to eight months, and [undecipherable] to the uniformity [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [United?] States. 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[undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as [there?] to be necessarily expended [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [use?] of the [frontier?] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] making the military [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as shall not be [considered?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] revenue to the United States. 4^th. The value of the State [ammunition?] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] quite [acceptable?], and a proper [store?] is [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], manifestly to [conform?] to the views of the general [Government?], relative to the military establishment [at?] [prerequisite?], so far [undecipherable] may consist with the act of Pennsylvania — [By?] my [furnishing?] to [undecipherable], the [stores?] before referred to, your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in your letter, of the 18^th Instant the [message?] have been [undecipherable], and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I give [reputation?] upon the [undecipherable]. I should have no doubt of the propriety of ordering a Sum well at [undecipherable] with the revenue of the United States, because it would be essential to the [defense?] — [if?] [by?] the act of the State, on [all?] a [previous?] [undecipherable], not [reserves?] for the defense of this State. But to [forward?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] is a further communication of your [sentiments?]. In the same [letter?] of [August?] 18^th you mention the [necessity?] of supplying a [garrison?] [undecipherable] Post at [undecipherable] [Island?] — [about?] [a?] detachment [undecipherable] the Frontier Artillery Corps has taken [post?] there with [present?] [undecipherable]. The arrangements here proposed will be submitted to the President of the United States — and their adoption or rejection, and report in his [name?] shall be [previously?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the means of [those?] which [shall?] be [supplied?] [undecipherable] — [places?] of the [Chief?] of the [Artillery?] — [thanks?] to [our?] [own?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [experience?] of Colonel [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I am, very respectfully, [Yours] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] Timothy Pickering Sec^y of War The Gov^r of Pennsylvania