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250 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS.
to obtain some convenient port or ports below the 31st
degree of north latitude on the river Mississippi free for all
merchant vessels, goods, wares and merchandize, belonging
to the inhabitants of these States.
The distressed state of our finances and the great depreciation of our paper money incline Congress to hope that
his Catholic Majesty, if he shall conclude a treaty with
these States, will be induced to lend them money; you are
therefore to represent to him the great distress of these
States on that account, and to solicit a loan of five million
of dollars upon the best terms in your power not exceeding
six per centum per annum, effectually to enable them to
co-operate with the allies against the common enemy. But
before you make any proposition to his Catholic Majesty
for a loan, you are to endeavour to obtain a subsidy in consideration of the guaranty aforesaid.
You are to use your utmost endeavours for obtaining permission for the citizens and inhabitants of these States to
lade and take on board their vessels salt at the island of
Salt Tortuga; and also to cut, load and bring away logwood
and mahogany in and from the bay of Honduras and its
rivers, and to build on its shores storehouses and magazines
for the woodcutters and their families in the extent ceded
to his Britannic Majesty by the seventeenth article of the
definitive treaty concluded at Paris the tenth day of February, 1763, or in as great extent as can be obtained.
Given at Philadelphia this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and seventy nine and in the fourth year
of our Independence, by the Congress of the
United States of America.
Saml- Huntington, President.
Attest, Chas. Thompson, Secy.
The honble. John Jay, Minister Plenipotentiary appointed
to negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce and of alliance
with his Catholic Majesty.
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 1 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000281 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 250 CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS. to obtain some convenient port or ports below the 31st degree of north latitude on the river Mississippi free for all merchant vessels, goods, wares and merchandize, belonging to the inhabitants of these States. The distressed state of our finances and the great depreciation of our paper money incline Congress to hope that his Catholic Majesty, if he shall conclude a treaty with these States, will be induced to lend them money; you are therefore to represent to him the great distress of these States on that account, and to solicit a loan of five million of dollars upon the best terms in your power not exceeding six per centum per annum, effectually to enable them to co-operate with the allies against the common enemy. But before you make any proposition to his Catholic Majesty for a loan, you are to endeavour to obtain a subsidy in consideration of the guaranty aforesaid. You are to use your utmost endeavours for obtaining permission for the citizens and inhabitants of these States to lade and take on board their vessels salt at the island of Salt Tortuga; and also to cut, load and bring away logwood and mahogany in and from the bay of Honduras and its rivers, and to build on its shores storehouses and magazines for the woodcutters and their families in the extent ceded to his Britannic Majesty by the seventeenth article of the definitive treaty concluded at Paris the tenth day of February, 1763, or in as great extent as can be obtained. Given at Philadelphia this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine and in the fourth year of our Independence, by the Congress of the United States of America. Saml- Huntington, President. Attest, Chas. Thompson, Secy. The honble. John Jay, Minister Plenipotentiary appointed to negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce and of alliance with his Catholic Majesty. |
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