1. The enclosed copy has not been identified; for the treaty, see Miller, Treaties, description begins Hunter Miller, ed. Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America. Vol. 2, 1776-1818. Washington, D.C., 1931. description ends 318–45.

2. GW’s message of this date to the House of Representatives reads: “I send herewith, a copy of the Treaty of friendship, limits and navigation, concluded on the 27th of October last, between the United States, and his Catholic Majesty. This treaty has been ratified by me, agreeably to the Constitution; and the ratification has been dispatched for Spain, where it will doubtless be immediately ratified by his Catholic Majesty.

“This early communication of the treaty with Spain has become necessary, because it is stipulated, in the third article, that commissioners for running the boundary line, between the territory of the United States, and the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida, shall meet at the Natchez, before the expiration of six months from the ratification: And, as that period will undoubtedly arrive before the next meeting of Congress, the House will see the necessity of making provision, in their present session, for the object here mentioned. It will also be necessary to provide for the expense to be incurred in executing the twenty first article of the treaty, to enable our fellow-citizens to obtain, with as little delay as possible, compensation for the losses they have sustained, by the capture of their vessels and cargoes, by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, during the late war between France and Spain.

“Estimates of the monies necessary to be provided, for the purposes of this and several other treaties with foreign nations, and the Indian tribes, will be laid before you, by the proper department” (copy, DNA: RG 233, entry 28, Journals; copy, DLC:GW).

3. On 31 March, Secretary of State Timothy Pickering submitted to the Senate and the House estimates of the expenses necessary to carry out provisions of the treaties with Great Britain, Spain, and Algiers, amounting to $80,808 for the first, $18,683 for the second, and $762,500 for the last. Of the last figure, only $52,132 was not already covered by “remittances.” In addition, Pickering estimated that $250,000 would be required to negotiate peace with Tunis and Tripoli and that $11,000 would be needed to pay the first annuity due the northwestern Indians under the Treaty of Greenville (DNA: RG 59, Domestic Letters).