From Thomas Jefferson to United States Congress, 6 February 1807

To the Senate & House of Representatives of the US.

Feb. 6. 1807.

The government of France having examined into the claim of M. de Beaumarchais against the United States, and considering it as just & legal, has instructed it’s minister here to make representations on the subject to the government of the US. I now lay his Memoir thereon before the legislature the only authority competent to a final decision on the same.

Th: Jefferson

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