40 APPENDIX TO BRITISH COUNTER CASE. 



Congress accordingly proceeded, and the ballots being taken, 



Mr. John Adams was elected. 



Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow. 



1779. September 28. ... The committee, consisting of Mr. 

 [John] Dickinson, Mr. [Gouverneur] Morris, and Mr. [Henry] 

 Marchant, appointed to prepare drafts of commissions, reported the 

 same, which were agreed to as follows : 



For the minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a treaty of peace. 



The Delegates of the United States of New Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, 

 New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir- 

 ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia To all who 

 shall see these presents, send greeting. 



It being probable that a negotiation will soon be commenced for 

 putting an end to the hostilities between His Most Christian Majesty 

 and these [United] States, on the one part, and his Britannick Maj- 

 esty on the other part ; and it being the sincere desire of the United 

 States that they may be terminated by a peace, founded on such solid 

 and equitable principles as reasonably to promise a permanency of 

 the blessings of tranquillity : KNOAV YE, THEREFORE, That we, confid- 

 ing in the integrity, prudence and ability of have 

 nominated and constituted, and by these presents do nominate and 

 constitute him the said our minister plenipotentiary, 

 giving him full power, general and special, to act in that quality, to 

 confer, treat, agree and conclude, with the ambassadors or plenipo- 

 tentiaries of his Most Christian Majesty, and of his Britannick 

 Majesty, and those of any other princes or states whom it may 

 concern, vested with equal powers, relating to the re-establishment 

 of peace and friendship; and whatever shall be so agreed and con- 

 cluded, for us, and in our name to sign, and thereupon to make a 

 treaty or treaties, and to transact every thing that may be necessary 

 for completing, securing and strengthening the great work of pacifi- 

 cation, in as ample form, and with the* same effect, as if we were 

 personally present and acted therein; hereby promising, in good 

 faith, that we will accept, ratify fulfil and execute whatever shall be 

 agreed, concluded and signed by our said minister plenipotentiary; 

 and that we will never act nor suffer any person to act contrary to 

 the same, in the whole or in any part. 



In witness whereof we have caused these presents to be givan in 

 Congress, at Philadelphia, the day of in the year 



of our Lord, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, and in the fourth 

 year of the independence of the United States of America. 



Signed by the President, and sealed with his seal. 



For the minister plenipotentiary to negotiate a treaty of amity 

 and commerce with Great Britain. 



The Delegates of the United States of New Hampshire, &c. in 

 Congress assembled 

 To all who shall see these presents, send greeting. 



It being the desire of the United States, that the peace which may 

 be established between them and his Britannick majesty may be per- 

 manent, and accompanied with the mutual benefits derived from 

 commerce: KNOW YEy THEREFORE, That we, confiding in the integ- 

 rity, prudence and ability of have nominated and consti- 



