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Ed. This volume, 1793-1797, begins on page 198, middle,
of the Journal.
January second 1793
Cincinnati County of Hamilton and
Territory of the United States Northwest
of the river Ohio --
Sir
The riotous and disorderly prac-
tices prevailing in this Town which the
civil Officers of Government are incom-
petent to restrain impel me to call out
the militia Guards for that purpose --
You are therefore upon the receipt of
this Order to cause a Guard consisting of one
Commissioned Officer one Sergeant one
Corporal and twenty privates to be moun-
ted every Eveg at Sun Setting in some
central part of the Town and to patrol the
Streets thereof regularly until half an hour after
day Light --
They are to take up and confine during the
night and bring before me in the morning all
persons detected in the Commission of any
Act against the peace or to the Terror and
Disturbance of the good people of this Territory
Given under my hand and Seal this
second day of January A.D. 1792 and of the
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