Sir:
I have the Honor of transmitting to your Excellency herewith enclosed a Copy of an Act of his Most Christian Majesty’s Council of State for the encouragement of the Commerce of France with the United States of America, passed the 20th of December, 1787, together with a Copy of a Letter on the Subject of it from His Majesty’s Comptroller General of Finance to the Honbl. Mr. Jefferson, dated on the same day.
Although these papers have already appeared in the Gazettes, yet not having been until lately communicated officially to Congress, they could not sooner be published by their Authority.