1. For the development of the Franco-American consular convention, see vols. 16:501–502, 505; 17:248, 20:91–92. Jefferson’s enclosures, not found, were copies of the unratified 1784 consular convention and the ratified 1788 convention. Three days after Jefferson wrote this letter, the Senate passed the consular bill, which the House amended and George Washington signed into law on 14 April 1792. Under the act, Louis XVI’s title shifted from “Most Christian Majesty” to “King of the French,” and consuls were banned from participation in the carrying trade (Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 22:335–336; U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, 1789– , Boston and Washington, D.C., 1845– . description ends , 1:254–257).