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War department, 10th: March 1791. Sir

    In consideration of the present ex-

pressed situation of the county of [blank] the President of the United States, hereby autho- rizes you to embody; at the expense of the United States, as many of the militia by volunteering engagements; or otherwise, according to law, as in your judgement, the defensive protection of the said county may require.

    He is persuaded that from a regard 

to proper economy; and your own character, you will not call out an unnecessary num- ber of men.

    The Rangers to be called into ser-

vice in pursuance of this authority are to be upon the same establishment of pay and rations as the troops of the United States, agreeably to the schedule herein enclosed.

     The county lieutenants are to 

make an arrangement for supplying the said rangers with rations provided each ration