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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1782.2
[Note 2: 2 The proceedings for this day were entered only in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs, and in Secret Journal No. 4. A copy is in Secret Journal No 6, Vol. III.]
The committee, consisting of Mr. [John] Rutledge, Mr. [James] Duane, Mr. [James] Madison, Mr. [Samuel] Osgood, and Mr. [Joseph] Montgomery, appointed to revise and consider the instructions from Congress to Mr. Jay, and to report if any and what alterations or additions should be made to them, reported as follows:
That the minister plenipotentiary at the Court of Spain be instructed, in case any propositions be made to him by the said Court for a treaty with the United States, to decline acceding to them until he shall have transmitted them to Congress for their approbation; unless the treaty proposed be of such a tenor as to render his accession thereto necessary to the fulfilment of the stipulation on the part of the United States
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tained in the seperate and secret article of their treaty with his Most Christian Majesty; in which case he is to conclude such treaty on the first requisition of his Catholick Majesty.
Resolved, That Mr. Jay be at liberty to leave Spain, and go into any other part of Europe, whenever the state of his health may require it.
A motion was made by Mr. [John] Rutledge, seconded by Mr. [James] McKean, to strike out the words, "in which case," &c. to the end of the first resolution; and on the question, shall those words stand, the yeas and nays being required by Mr. [Edward] Telfair--
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So it was resolved in the negative.
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On the question to agree to the first resolution as amended,
Resolved, N. C. D. in the affirmative.
On the question to agree to the second resolution,
Resolved, N. C. D. in the affirmative.
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