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xiv report of its joint Committees of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Marine, decrees,

"That the King be petitioned to iue orders to all the ambaadors, reidents, conuls, and agents of the nation, to apply, in the name of humanity, and of the arts and ciences, to the different Sovereigns at whoe courts they reide, requeting them to charge all their navigators and agents whatoever, and in what places oever, but particularly in the mot outherly parts of the South Sea, to earch diligently for the two French frigates, the Bouole and the Atrolabe, commanded by M. de la Péroue, as alo for their hips' companies, and to make every inquiry which has a tendency to acertain their exitence or their hipwreck; in order that, if M. de la Péroue and his companions hould be found or met with, in any place whatoever, they may give them every aitance, and procure them all the means neceary for their return into their own country, and for bringing with them all the property of which they may be poeed; and the National Aembly engages to indemnify, and even to recompene, in proportion to the importance of the ervice, any peron or perons who hall give aitance to thoe navigators, hall procure intelligence concerning them, or hall be intru- mental