[Extract of a letter from the [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] Kentucky —] mustered and inspected every two months by an Officer to be appointed by you and who shall also be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty. 4^th. The pay abstracts to be made up every two months by each garrison and also for the Scouts and transmitted to your Excellency who will certify the same and the Muster Rolls and cause them to be transmitted to the Paymaster with the Army who will pay the amount in the manner which shall be devised so that the persons intitled to the money shall receive it without any loss of time. In order to the regular discharge of this business it will be necessary that you transmit to this Office, information of the number and situations of the respective Garrisons and the number and situation of the Scouts which shall be employed. If a greater force should be required upon an expectation of an invasion, the provisions in the constitution of the United States must be resorted to and govern — A true extract [undecipherable] Clerk War Office Copy of a letter from the Secretary of War to Governor Shelby dated War Office November 21 1795 — Sir, Lately since I acknowledged the receipt of your Excellency's letter [strikethrough: [undecipherable] for further inspection of papers has brought to me] in that of the 14 of March, I am sorry it has so long escaped my attention. I have laid your letters before the President. He expresses his confidence in your arrangements for the protection of the frontier of your State that all proper attention has been given to prevent any unnecessary expense. With regard to the militia Guards and Scouts which have been employed under your orders pursuant to the powers explicitly delegated to you by the President of the United States, in a letter from the Secretary of War dated the 16 May 1794, there can be no hesitation in the adjustment of the accounts and making payment for those services if the muster Rolls and pay abstracts have and shall be formed and certified in the manner described in that letter. Instead of sending to the Paymaster with the Army, it may now be more convenient to transmit them to the War Office where every facility shall be given for their final settlement. The universal peace now happily established with all the Indian nations on our extended frontiers renders it unnecessary to concert at this time any plan for collecting and settling the accounts for Militia Services in Kentucky. But an important object in your repeated communications to the War Office concerns the expences incurred by your State for the protection of its inhabitants prior to any arrangements for that purpose of the general government and a reimbursement of which is now claimed. On this head it is the Presidents opinion that the accounts thereof with all the documents proper to support the claim should be transmitted to this Office. Then if on examination there shall appear to be any authority for their adjustment the same may be made, if otherwise the claim with its vouchers may be laid before Congress — I have the honor to be Y^r signed Timothy Pickering Governor Shelby Kentucky A true Copy [undecipherable] Clk. War Office