Published under the direction of the President of the United States, conformably to VOL. III. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMAS B. WAIT. 1821. SECRET JOURNAL. FOREIGN AFFAIRS. JULY 27, 1781. THE honourable the minister of France transmitted to Congress a memorial, of which the following is a translation. MEMOIRE. Philadelphia, July 26, 1781. The twenty-ninth article of the treaty of amity and commerce, between his most christian majesty and the United States, reserves to the two contracting powers "the liberty of having each in the ports of the other, "consuls, vice consuls, agents and commissaries, "whose functions shall be regulated by a particular agreement." In consequence of this stipulation, the court of Versailles has caused a draft to be made of a convention, relative to the establishment of consuls, which the undersigned minister plenipotentiary of France has the honour to communicate to Congress. It is the desire of his majesty, that this draft |