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    The orders on this subject are to be considered

as in force until the object shall be effected.

    As it is to be expected that the result

of the said orders will be productive of security and tran- quility to the frontiers; and as the expence of the scouts is considered as too great to be longer supported, and as the rangers directed may effectually answer the same purpose, the President has thought proper to direct, that the scouts in future be discontinued.

    I have the honor to enclose your Excell=

lency the copy of a letter to the county lieutenants of Washington in Pennsylvania, Harrison, Randolph, Ohio, Monogahalia,, and Penhawa in Virginia, and also to the lieutenants of the counties of Mason, Bourbon, Wood= ford, Madison, Lincoln, Mercer, Nelson & Jefferson in Kentucky, on this subject, and if you should be of opinion that the same protection ought to be extended to the counties of Washington, Russell and Wythe you will please to have the goodness to direct the lieutenants of the said counties, conform ably to the general rules pointed out in the