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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, JANUARY 21, 1783
The Superintendant of finance having laid before Congress a copy of a contract between his Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America, entered into and executed on the 16 July, 1782, by the Count de Vergennes and Dr. B. Franklin, for ascertaining the sums of money advanced on loan by his Majesty to the United States, and settling the terms of payment; and it being stipulated in the said contract, that the ratifications thereof shall be exchanged in nine months from the date, or sooner if possible:
Ordered, that the secretary prepare and lay before Congress the form of a ratification.
A letter of 8 October, 1782, from the honourable J. Adams, was read, accompanied with a certified copy of a treaty of amity and commerce, and of a convention respecting re-captured vessels, agreed to between their High Mightinesses the States General of the Netherlands, and the United States of America, on the said 8th day of October, 1782.1
[Note 1: 1 The proceedings for January 21 were also entered in the manuscript Secret Journal, Foreign Affairs.]
Ordered, That a letter of the 5th January, from G. Weedon, and account of Mr. Mercer against the United States for the maintenance and education of H. Mercer, son of the late Brigadier General Mercer be referred to the Superintendant of Finance to take order.2
[Note 2: 2 This order was entered only in the journal kept by the Secretary of Congress for the Superintendent of Finance: Morris Papers, Congressional Proceedings; and in Committee Book No. 186.]
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