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 A P P E N D I X. C 0 N T R A C T hi, ,6, ,-,82, Between hrs most christian meyesty and the United Smeg; Egg; pgatmerica, entered tnto by the count de Vergennes and 22-1783-, r. Franklin, the 16th of July, 1782, and ratyied by congress, the 22d day of January, 1783. Motive: for Tm: king having been pleased to attend to the requests made to him ¤¤¤l¢i¤s ¤P¤¤i- in the name, and on behalf of the united provinces of North America, g‘}l{‘,:°";f,f‘Q,§Q‘* for assistance in the war and invasion under which they had for several of pecuniary year groaned; and his majesty, after entering into a treaty of amity ¤¤Pgll¤¤ Y¤¤‘¤lSlr and commerce with the said confederated provinces, on the 6th of Feb- 2,, Y F“°°°• ruary, 1778, having had the goodness to support them, not only with ` his forces by land and sea, but also with advances of money, as abundant as they were effectual, in the critical situation to which their affairs were reduced: it has been judged proper and necessary to state exactly the amount of those advances, the conditions on which the king made them, the periods at which the congress of the United States have engaged to repay them to his majesty’s royal treasury, and in fine, to state this matter in such a way as for the future to prevent all difficulties capable of interrupting the good harmony which his majesty is resolved to maintain and preserve between him and the said United States. For executing so laudable a purpose, and with a view to strengthen the bands of amity and commerce which subslst between his majesty and the said United States; we, Charles Gravier de Vergennes, &,c. counsellor of the king in all his councils, commander of his orders, minister and secretary of state, and of his commands and nuances, vested with full powers of his majesty to us given for this purpose: and we, Benjamin Franklin, minister plenipotentiary of the United States of North America, in like manner vested with full powers of the congress of the said states for the present purpose; after duly communicating our respective powers, have agreed to the following articles: Amon,,; Am. 1. It is agreed and certified, that the sums advanced by his different loans. majesty to the congress of the United States, under the title of a loan, in the years 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, and the present, 1782, amount to the sum of eighteen million of livres, money of France, according to the following twenty-one receipts of the abovementioned under written minister of congress, given in virtue of his full powers, to wit: 1, 28 Februar, 1778,. . . .  750,000 l'°""°"°‘““‘ 2, 19 May, y ams,  ·reo,00o 3, 3.August, ditto,  750,000 4, 1 November, ditto, . . . . . . .. . ... . . . . 750,000 ——-—-3,000,000 5, 10 June, 1779, _ . ... 250,000 6, 16 September, ditto,  . . ..  250,000 7, 4 October, ditto,  250,000 S, 21 December, ditto, ... .  250,000 -—-—-1,000,000 (6l4)