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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 --[THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1783]
The Committee, consisting of Mr S[amuel] Huntington, Mr [James] Duane and Mr [James] Madison, to whom the Communication from the Minister of France of the 17 Instant was referred, Submit the following Report:
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Your Committee find a Report already made on a letter from the Superintendant of Finance, which contains a proper form for the ratification of the Contract made by Dr Franklin with the Count de Vergennes the 25th of February 1783 for six millions of livres, which ought to be immediately ratified--and the same being done, your Committee submit the following Resolutions,
Resolved, That the Minister of France be informed in answer to his communication of the 17th Instant, that all the Contracts and articles mentioned in his communication have been duly ratified by the United States in Congress Assembled, and that the last Contract of the 25th of February 1783 only remains to be transmitted to our Minister in France, which will be done without loss of time.1
[Note 1: 1 This report, in the writing of Samuel Huntington, is in the Papers of the Continental Congress, No. 25, II, folio 269. The indorsement states that it was passed this day.]
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