Office for Foreign Affairs, July 4, 1785
Subtitle: The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a copy of the convention respecting French and American consuls, reports ...
Contributors: Jay, John, 1745-1829.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Diplomatic and consular service, American -- France.; Diplomatic and consular service, French -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1815.
Notes: Comparing the scheme and actual convention and stating objections to the present form of the latter.
"Read July 6, 1785"--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 515.
Title taken from the opening lines of text.
Signed on p. 9: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 924 (#483); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy annotated on verso of p. 9: Convention relate. to consuls--Done.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Evans 19319
Journals of the Continental Congress, 483