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cases for the internal defence of your county | cases for the internal defence of your county | ||
at the expence of the United States. | at the expence of the United States. | ||
| − | Since | + | Since writng the former letter to |
| + | Judge Innes, authorizing him to write to you | ||
the arrangement has been changed and+. | the arrangement has been changed and+. | ||
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the Lieutenant in Kentucky and dated | the Lieutenant in Kentucky and dated | ||
29 July 1790. | 29 July 1790. | ||
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| + | I have now the honor by the direction | ||
| + | of the President of the United States, to inform | ||
| + | you that the authority contained in said letter | ||
| + | relative to said scouts is to be considered as | ||
| + | having ceased and terminated upon your | ||
| + | receiving this letter, duplicated of which I | ||
| + | have written and transmitted to you. | ||
| + | The representations of the then deplorable | ||
| + | situation of the frontier counties, and the high | ||
| + | estimation of the said scouts were held in by | ||
| + | the inhabitants, were the inducements of the | ||
| + | President of the United States, to consent to | ||
| + | calling forth that expensive special of militia | ||
| + | as | ||
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| + | 2 IGA14 | ||