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incorrigible banditti whose outrages cannot be prevented while they are suffered to inhabit the county lying be= tween the Lakes and the Ohio. Their whole numbers prob= ably do not exceed two hundred fighting men. 

    The President of the United States upon

mature consideration has therefore thought proper to give the governor of the western territory and command= ing officer conditional orders to extirpate the said banditti provided the same could be effected, without interfering with the general objects of peace with the regular tribes lying upon the Wabash and its vicinity. 

    It is proposed that the expedition should

be performed under the immediate orders of general Har= mar, with about one hundred continental troops and three hundred militia of the neighbouring counties of Kentucky who should be engaged for thirty days from the time of their arrival at the place of rendezvous-- It is further proposed, that both the regular troops & the militia should be mounted on horseback, if the nature of the country should permit that mode of ope= ration. 

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