Sir:

I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency herewith enclosed a copy of an Act of Congress, passed the 17th Inst., providing for the further defence of South Carolina and Georgia.

By it your Excellency will perceive that the recruits lately raised and now raising in Virginia to complete that State's Quota of Continental Troops are ordered to join the Southern Army, and that four of the Continental Regiments of North Carolina are also to be employed in the Southern service.