Papers of John Adams, volume 19
11 October 1787
Be it Remembered that the within Contract or Engagement entered into by the honble: John Adams, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to their High Mightinesses the Lords the States General of the United Netherlands in behalf of the said States with sundry Money Lenders for a Loan of One Million of Guilders dutch Current Money, dated at Amsterdam the first day of June 1787, hath been read in Congress, approved and ratified and declared obligatory on the United States of America.
Done in the City Hall in the City of New York, by the United States in Congess Assembled this Eleventh day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and in the Twelfth year of our Sovereignty and Independence.—
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Dupl (Adams Papers); endorsed: “Ratification, of Loan.” Filmed at [1 June 1787].
The contract, to which this instrument of ratification is attached, is at [1 June], above, and was enclosed with John Jay’s 16 Oct. letter, below. JA sent a copy of the ratification to the Dutch loan consortium with his letter of 10 Dec. (LbC, APM Reel 113).