1. The enclosures (37 pp.; printed in Maclure, To the People of the U.S. [Shaw and Shoemaker description begins R. R. Shaw and R. H. Shoemaker, comps., American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819 (22 vols.; New York, 1958–66). description ends 12968], pp. 14–26) are copies of Robert R. Livingston to the commissioners, 25 Oct., 30 Oct., 2 Nov., 12 Nov. (with enclosed notes from Jacques Defermon and M. Guillaume), 16 Nov., and 23 Dec. 1803; and the commissioners to Livingston, 29 Oct., 1, 3, 15, and 17 Nov., and 23 Dec. 1803. Livingston wrote to the commissioners demanding their reasons for delaying their examination of the claims, since by doing so they were inconveniencing the American creditors and the French government, and urging them to expedite the fulfillment of the convention terms. Although Livingston argued that because he was the resident American minister and a negotiator of the claims convention, his interpretation overrode theirs, the commissioners refused to accept his view. The exchange became more acrimonious as it continued and was ended on 17 Nov. by the commissioners’ statement that they would “At a proper season” convey to Livingston and to the French and American governments the reasons for their actions. On 23 Dec. 1803 Livingston informed the commissioners that he had received official notice of the ratification of the treaty and of the president’s approbation of their appointment to the board. Copies of several of these letters were also enclosed in Livingston to JM, 23 Nov. 1803.