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Sir. 

    I have the honor to inform you, that

Judge Innes transmitted me a copy of a letter written by him to you, dated the 10th May last on the subject of scouts to be called out in certain cases for the internal defence of your county at the expence of the United States. 

    Since writng the former letter to

Judge Innes, authorizing him to write to you the arrangement has been changed and+.

[left margin, 1/4 page turned] To the mark + prefaced the letter to the Lieutenant in Kentucky and dated 29 July 1790. 

    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 

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