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[The Committee to whom was committed the Report of the Secretary for Foreign affairs founded on a referred motion of the Delegates of N. Carolina, stating the uneasiness produced by a Report “that Congress are disposed to meet with Spain for the surrender of their claim to the navigation of the River Mississippi” and proposing a resolution intended to remove such apprehensions, submit the...
The Comittee to whom was referred the report of the Secretary for the Department of foreign affairs of the 14th instant submit the following resolutions That the secretary for the department of foreign affairs be directed to transmit copies of the papers referred to in the said report to the Chargé des affaires of the United States at Madrid and instruct him to represent to his Catholic...
Whereas the Convention assembled at Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pensylvania did on the 17th day of September last past resolve as the opinion of that Convention that as soon as the Conventions of nine states should have ratified the Constitution then and there agreed upon by the said Convention the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be...
The Committee to whom was referred the report of the Secretary for foreign affairs on the note from The Minister Plenipotentiary of France with the papers accompanying it report— That it appears by the said note and the papers which accompany it, that the person mentioned therein, to wit Joseph Marie Anne Fermier commander of the Brig David is in substance charged with betraying his trust and...
That in their opinion it is expedient that the district of Kentucky be erected into an independent state and therefore submit the following resolution [a member from each state] That the address and resolutions from the district of Kentucke with the acts of the Legislature of Virginia therein specified be referred to a Committee of to prepare and report a proper act for acceding to the...
Copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives; press copy of copy: American Philosophical Society The instructions that follow established a new diplomatic commission to negotiate and sign a total of twenty treaties of amity and commerce with European and North African powers. Their creation was a long and contentious process. On October 29, 1783, Congress authorized the peace...
Whereas Congress have been informed by a note addressed to them by the Chevalier De la Luzerne, Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Christian Majesty, of the 20th Instant, and the papers accompanying the same, that a violation of the Laws of Nations hath been committed by one Longchamps, who calls himself Chevalier de Longchamps, a subject of His Most Christian Majesty, by a violent assault...
The United States in Congress assembled To all to whom these presents shall come or be made known send Greeting Whereas an intercourse between the Subjects of Her Imperial Majesty of all the Russias and the Citizens of the United States of America founded on the principles of equality reciprocity and friendship may be of mutual advantage to both Nations Now therefore know ye that we reposing...
Whereas instructions bearing date the 29th. day of October 1783 were sent to the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at the Court of Versailles empowered to negotiate a peace, or to any one or more of them for concerting draughts or propositions for Treaties of Amity and Commerce with the Commercial Powers of Europe. Resolved That it will be advantageous to these United...
Ordered that all letters from the Ministers of these states in Europe be considered at all times as under an injunction of secrecy, except as to such parts of them as Congress shall by special permission allow to be published or communicated. MS ( DNA : PCC , No. 36, ii ); entirely in TJ’s hand; below the text in Charles Thomson’s hand: “Mr Jefferson Mr Spaight. Yeas & Nays” on verso, also in...