Office for Foreign Affairs, 13th May, 1785 : The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a letter of the 21st March last, from Richard Soderstrom, reports as his opinion, that no state is obliged by the laws of nations to receive or admit consuls from any foreign state ...
Summary
Read May 13, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 18, p. 361.
Signed: All of which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 922 (#476); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
Evans 19318
Journals of the Continental Congress, 476
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Date
01/01/1785
Contributors
United States. Dept. of Foreign Affairs.
Jay, John, 1745-1829.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Source
Library of Congress
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