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as to temporary measures for the protection of the exposed counties.

    But as experience has demonstrated the

inefficacy of defensive measures for an extensive frontier, against straggling parties of indians; and as conditional orders have been transmitted to the governor of the western territory; and the commanding officer of the troops of the United States, to act offensively against the Shawanese and outcast Cherokees joined with them, inha- biting north west of the Ohio, who are probably the banditti, which has for some time past committed depredations on the counties lying along the Ohio. And as the militia or rangers hereafter described will in cases of necessity be permitted at the expence of the union, in lieu of the scouts, it is presumed that no injury will be sustained by waking the authority for call- ing into service, so expensive a species of the troops as the said scouts.

    The President of the United States is anxiously

desirous of effectually protecting the frontiers, and he will take all such reasonable measures, as in his judgement the case may require, and for which he

     shall

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