1. Section 3 of this act required that “a sum of fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the provision heretofore made, be appropriated to defray any expense which may be incurred in relation to the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations” (Annals of Congress description begins Joseph Gales, Sr., comp. The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature. 42 vols. Washington, D.C., 1834–56. description ends , 2d Cong., 1st sess., 1387).

2. For the background to this document, see Thomas Jefferson to GW, 30 May, and note 1. On 30 June, Hamilton informed William Short, the U.S. minister at The Hague, that as a result of Hamilton’s proposal to Jefferson of the previous day, a “bill has been drawn in favour of the Secretary of State on our Commissioners [in Holland] for One hundred and twenty three thousand, seven hundred and fifty Guilders,” the equivalent of $50,000 (Syrett, Hamilton Papers, description begins Harold C. Syrett et al., eds. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. 27 vols. New York, 1961–87. description ends 11:609).