That the payment of the interests, as also the redeeming of the respective periods, shall be made at the compting-houses of the hereafter mentioned gentlemen directors, or at such other places within this city as shall likewise be advertised in the public papers. That the directors of this negotiation shall be Messrs. Wilhelm and Jan Willink, and Nicolaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, of this city, merchants, who are by these presents thereto named and appointed by the honorable appearer, in his aforesaid quality. The honorable appearer promising and engaging in the names of his constituents, that the amount of the interests and of the redeemings to be made, from time to time, of the sad principal, shall be in due time remitted to the aforesaid gentlemen directors, their heirs or successors, in good bills of exchange, American products, or in ready money, without any abatement or reduction whatsoever. That this bond or obligation shall never be subject to any imposts or taxes already land, or in time to come to be laid, in the said United States of America, or any of them, even a case (which God forbid) any war, hostilities or divisions, should arise between aforesaid Unded States, or any of them on the one side, and the states of these lands on the other, and, that the payment of the principal or interests of this bond or obligation, accordingly, can, in no wise, nor under any pretext whatsoever, be hindered or delayed. The honorable appearer, in his aforesaid quality, promising and engaging, moreover, for, and in the names of the said United States, that there shall never be made, or entered into by them, or on their parts, or any of them in particular, any convention or treaty, public of private, at the making of peace, or otherwise, by which the validity and accomplishment of these presents might be prejudiced, or, whereby any thing contrary thereto might be stipulat ed, but that without any exception the contents hereof shall be kept and maintained in full force. The honorable appearer, in his aforesaid quality, likewise promises, engages and binds himself by these presents, that this engagement shall be ratified and approved as soon as possible by said United States in Congress assembled, and that authentic copy translation of said ratification, with the original, shall be deposited in custody of me the said notary, to be there kept with said authentic copy translation of the commission or power of him, honora ble appearer, and the engrossed hereof for the security of the money lenders, until the above mentioned principal and interests as aforesaid shall be redeemed and paid off. And there shall be made of this act, (as the honorable appearer in his aforesaid quality consents) above and besides the above mentioned engrossed, 1000 authentic copies, which shall be of the same force and value, and have the same effect as the engrossed one, under every one of which copies shall be placed a receipt of 1000 guilders, Dutch current money, either on name or in blank, at the choice of the money lenders, to be signed by him, honorable appearer, and which receipts shall be respectively numbered from No. 1, to 1000, inclusive, and countersigned by the above mentioned gentlemen directors, and duly recorded by me the said notary, as a testimony that no more than 1000 bonds or obligations are numbered by vir tue of this act: All which authentic copies with the receipts there under placed, shall, at the redeeming of the principal, be restored by the bearers. On failure of prompt payment, as well of the principal as of the interests at the appointed periods, the principal or residue thereof may be demanded by the gentlemen directors, in behalf of the money lenders, who shall be then interested therein, and the aforesaid consti tuents and committents of him, honorable appearer, shall in that case be held and bound to redeem and discharge immediately in one sum, the remaining principal, with the interests and charges. For the accomplishment and performance of all the above written, the honorable appearer binds in his aforesaid quality, and thus in the names and on the part of the above mentioned United States of America, the said United States of America, jointly, and each of them in particular, together with all their lands, chattels, revenues and products, and also the imposts and taxes already laid and raised in the same, or in time to come to be laid and raised, and thus of all the United States of America, jointly, and each of them in particular, and for the whole. He, the honorable appearer, renouncing in the names as above, for that purpose expressly, Beneficium Divisionis, as likewise de doubois vel pluribus Reis debendi, signifiying a retribution of debts, and that when two or more are indebted, each of them can satisfy with the payment of his portion: the honorable appearer promising in bis aforesaid quality, never to have recourse to the said or to any other evasions whatsoever. This being passed (after translation into English was made hereof, and which likewise is signed by the honorable appearer, and deposited in the custody of me the said notary) within Amsterdam aforesaid, in the presence of Apolonius Van Ryck de Groot and Jacob de Wolf, witnesses. (Signed) JOHN ADAMS, A V. R. DE GROOT, L. S. Faithfully translated from the Dutch, Amsterdam, the 13th day of March, 1788. JOANNES VERGEEL LUC SON, Sworn Translator. MONDAY, November 3, 1788. Pursuant to the articles of the confederation, only two gentlemen attended as delegates, namely; Mr. Contee, for Maryland, and Mr. Williamson, for North-Carolina. Monday, December 3, Mr. J. Dawson, from Virginia, attended. Saturday, December 6, Mr. N. Eveleigh, from South-Carolina, attended. Wednesday, December 30, Mr. S. A. Otis, from Massachusetts. Mr. J. R. Read, from Pennsylvania. Thursday, January 8, Mr. A. Clarke, from New-Jersey. Thursday, February 12, Mr. J. Gardner, from Rhode-Island. END OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. INDEX TO VOLUME IV. A. Absence, delegates granted leave of, 3, 8, 10, Adams John, appointed a commissioner to nego- 31, 57, 110, 182, 184, 478 Accommodation of Congress, buildings to be erected for the, 456. Accountant and two clerks in the Treasury De- settlement to be made of the, 34, 35, 54,55. 46. for pay and arrearages, commutation not specially provided for, how to be of individual states with the United of the Virginia line, instructions for the of the several states, credits to be al- of Pennsylvania and Massachu- of states against the United States, fur- of the several states, disposition of thir- of cession by Massachusetts and Virginia, 661, 662, 663. tiate a peace with Great-Britain, forms a treaty of amity, commerce, of the United States at the Court a minister to be sent to the United exchanges ratifications of the treaty representation from, 730. permitted to return to the United his diplomatic conduct approved by ratification of his contract for a loan John Q. allowance to, 784. and petition of the officers of the army, of inhabitants of New-Jersey and Penn- 289. of the Chamber of Commerce, Artifi- of Pennsylvania and New-York, proceed- Adjournment of Congress for want of a quorum, ings on, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672,673,674 of states, not to interpret, explain or con- of states, repugnant to the treaty with VOL. IV. new rule adopted in from day to day, pro- Adjournment of Congress from Philadelphia to Alliance ship, disposition of the cargo of the, Princeton, in New-Jersey. 232 the, 56, 57. proceedings on a letter from Ad valorem rate of duty, 175, 176. 312, 363, 364, 370, 401. 53. salary of the, not annexed to of the United States at the Havana, death of the Cherokee nation of Indians, ap- Agents in Europe, settlement of accounts of the public, 34, 35, 54, 107. in behalf of Connecticut and Pennsyl- for South-Carolina and Georgia, pro- authorized to appoint judges to to agree on commissioners their representation to con- Aids-de-Camp, additional pay allowed to, 43. Albany, New-York, militia to be discharged at, 519. to be repaired, 260, 319. with her tackle, dac, sale ordered of returns to be made of officers, ke who served on board the, 633 passport and safe conduct to be gives Ambiguity in the report of a committee of American army, plan for the better regul excise duties not to be impose rations allowed to officers of the, provision made for sirk and weanded soldiers of the. 18. 19. to be paid for the current year, 84 new arrangement of the, 107, 108. 110 a deputy post-master to attend obstacles to be removed, imped 281 discharged from and after the Sd $16 resignation of the commander is |