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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,
JB. DE WOLFF,
P. G. VAN HOLE, Notary.

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.
Saturday, November 15, Mr. C. Griffin, from Virginia, attended.

Monday, December 3, Mr. J. Dawson, from Virginia, attended.

Saturday, December 6, Mr. N. Eveleigh, from South-Carolina, attended.
Thursday, December 11, Mr. J. Dayton, from New-Jersey, attended.
Monday, December 15, Mr. T. T. Tucker, from South-Carolina.

Wednesday, December 30, Mr. S. A. Otis, from Massachusetts.
THURSDAY, January 1, 1789.

Mr. J. R. Read, from Pennsylvania.
Mr. Barnwell, from South-Carolina.

Thursday, January 8, Mr. A. Clarke, from New-Jersey.
Saturday, January 10, Mr. T. Coxe, from Pennsylvania.
Monday, January 26, Mr. N. Gorham, from Massachusetts.
Thursday, January 29, Mr. G. Thatcher, from Massachusetts.
Friday, February 6, Mr. D. Ross, from Maryland.

Thursday, February 12, Mr. J. Gardner, from Rhode-Island.
Wednesday, February 18, Mr. D. Gelston, from New-York.
Thursday, February 19, Mr. N. Gilman, from New-Hampshire.
Monday, March 2, Mr. Philip Pell, from New-York.

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.
appropriation for, 456.

Accountant and two clerks in the Treasury De-
partment, authorized, 774.
Accounts of the expenditures of public moneys,

settlement to be made of the, 34, 35, 54,55.
of Commissioners of loans, to be settled,

46.

for pay and arrearages, commutation
of half pay, and deficiencies of ra-
tions, clothing, &c. due to officers and
soldiers of the army, measures for the
settlement of, 152.

not specially provided for, how to be
settled, 168.

of individual states with the United
States, proceedings of Congress rela-
tive to the settlement of, 169, 170,545,
704 to 712, 742 to 745, 799, 864, 867.
of the army, information required re-
lative to a settlement of, 173.
of the marine department, by whom
adjusted, 192.

of the Virginia line, instructions for the
settlement of, 431, 432.

of the several states, credits to be al-
lowed in the settlement of, 431, 432.

of Pennsylvania and Massachu-
setts, directions relative to the, 441,
442, 443, 444.
of persons acting in two or more of the
great departments, how settled, 568.
of the five great departments, revision
of the settlement of, 624, 655, 815.
of the secret and commercial committees
of Congress, to be settled, 652.
unsettled, measures to compel the ad-
justment of, 817.

of states against the United States, fur-
ther time allowed for exhibiting, 825.
Acts of the legislatures of states, 31, 32, 33, 34,
43, 45, 47, 227, 363, 366, 469, 553,
554, 564, 597, 626, 637, 702, 715,
716, 769, 770, 771, 772, 834, 835.
and resolutions of Congress, to be com-
municated to ministers of foreign powers,
109.

of the several states, disposition of thir-
teen copies of the, 556.

of cession by Massachusetts and Virginia,
proceedings of Congress relative to the,

661, 662, 663.

tiate a peace with Great-Britain,
80, 187, 188.
proceedings of Congress on letters
received from, 118.
authorized to purchase a house at
the Hague, 126.

forms a treaty of amity, commerce,
&c. with the states general of
the United Netherlands, 144.
obtains a loan at Amsterdam, of
five millions of florins, 205, 206.
appointed minister plenipotentiary

of the United States at the Court
of Great-Britain, 474.

a minister to be sent to the United
Netherlands in the place of, 477,
541.

exchanges ratifications of the treaty
between the United States and
Prussia, 720.

representation from, 730.
forms a treaty of amity, commerce,
&c. with the Emperor of Moroc-
co, 756.

permitted to return to the United
States, 786.

his diplomatic conduct approved by
Congress, 786.

ratification of his contract for a loan
of one million of guilders, 793,
827.

John Q. allowance to, 784.
Nathaniel, surveyor of western lands for
New-Hampshire, 527.
resigns the appointment, 563.
Address of Congress to the several states, 194 to
215.

and petition of the officers of the army,
206, 207, 208.
to the officers of the army, from an
anonymous writer, 208, 209, 210.
to the officers of the army, from General
Washington, 213, 214, 215.

of inhabitants of New-Jersey and Penn-
sylvania, 236, 237, 239, 240.
from a deputation of Quakers, 286,

289.

of the Chamber of Commerce, Artifi-
cers, &c. of the city of New-York,
472, 473.
from representatives of the people of
Kentucky, 811.
proceedings of Congress on,
819, 828, 829, 830.

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-
strue, a national treaty, 730.

of states, repugnant to the treaty with
Great-Britain, to be repealed, 737, 738.
Adams John, recognized as minister plenipoten-
tiary of the U. States at the Hague, 79

VOL. IV.

new rule adopted in
case of, 239.

from day to day, pro-
ceedings relative to
the hours of meeting
and, 426.

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Adjournment of Congress from Philadelphia to Alliance ship, disposition of the cargo of the,

Princeton, in New-Jersey.

232

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the, 56, 57.

proceedings on a letter from
the, 114.
brigadier-general Hand con-
tinued as, 128.
Administration of justice, rules and articles for
the, 619, 650, 651.

Ad valorem rate of duty, 175, 176.
Agent of marine, references and directions to
the, 46. 68, 72, 111, 164, 179,
226, 259, 260, 268, 269, 296,

312, 363, 364, 370, 401.
reports from the, 53, 184, 192,
250, 370, 735.
power to exchange marine pri-
soners of war, vested in the,

53.

salary of the, not annexed to
the board of treasury, 551.

of the United States at the Havana, death
of the, 223.

of the Cherokee nation of Indians, ap-
pointed, 822, 823.

Agents in Europe, settlement of accounts of the

public, 34, 35, 54, 107.

in behalf of Connecticut and Pennsyl-
vania, appearance in Congress of the
lawful, 40, 41, 48, 62, 63.)
allowance to regimental and other, 527,
528, 695.
for sundry corps of the late army, pro-
ceedings respecting, 598.

for South-Carolina and Georgia, pro-
duce their credentials, 691, 692,
693.

authorized to appoint judges to
constitute a court, &c. 693, 696.
for Massachusetts and New-York, ap-
pointed, 450, 451, 452.

to

agree on commissioners
hear and determine the con-
troversy, &c. 460, 536.

their representation to con-
gress, 603.

Aids-de-Camp, additional pay allowed to, 43.
Aitkin Robert, his edition of the Bible recom-
mended, 75, 76.

Albany, New-York, militia to be discharged at,

519.

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to be repaired, 260, 319.

with her tackle, dac, sale ordered of
the, 531.

returns to be made of officers, ke

who served on board the, 633
prize money due to the oficers wi
crew of the, 796, 797.
Alvey John D. his accounts to be settled, 21′′
Amazon, orders of Congress respecting mer
chandise imported in the ship.

passport and safe conduct to be gives
to the, 165.

Ambiguity in the report of a committee of
Congress, explained, 238, 239.
America, seventy-four gun ship, presented a
France, in lieu of the Magne,

American army, plan for the better regul
of the pay of the, 7, 8
returns to be made of non-com
missioned officers and private
of the, 8.

excise duties not to be impose
on spirituous liquors purchased
for the, 8.

rations allowed to officers of the,
18.

provision made for sirk and

weanded soldiers of the. 18. 19.
inspectors to be appointed for
the main and sourbern. 27.
inquiry into detention of clothing
provided for the, 39.
appointment of judge advocate
for the, 45, 80, 84.

to be paid for the current year,

84

new arrangement of the, 107, 108.
commissions issued to officers d
the, 108.
subsistence money, in lieu of ra-
tions, allowed to officers of the,

110
suspension of orders relating
certain lines of the, 123.
proceedings on a memorial of the,
152, 178, 179
deficiencies of pay to be received
by the, 165, 173.
inlistments to be suspended for
the, 184.

a deputy post-master to attend
the, 184.
officers of the, address and pet-
tion to congress from-address
from an anonymous writer fo
general orders to-address of
the commander in chief to-
unanimous resolves of,
207,208, 209, 210, 213, 214, 215
proceedings relative to disband
ing the, 222.

obstacles to be removed, imped
ing the settlement of the ac
counts of the, 230.
promotions, by brevet commis
sions, granted to officers of the,

281

discharged from and after the Sd
of November, 1783, 299, 304,

$16

resignation of the commander is
chief of the, 318.

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