Book/Printed Material The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of North-America, for defining and regulating the functions and privileges of consuls, vice-consuls, agents and commissaries.
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Image 1 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … To Sedgwick THE SCHEME OF A CONVENTION, Between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of North-America, for defining and regulating the Functions and Privileges of Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Agents and Commissaries.…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 2 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 2 ] manner as to the consuls, and thereupon all the pre-eminences, authority and privileges stipulated in this convention in favor of vice consuls, shall be allowed in all places, before…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 3 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 3 ] ARTICLE VIII The consuls and vice consuls respectively may establish a chancery as a depositary of the consular acts and deliberations, of effects left by the dead, or saved…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 4 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 4 ] ARTICLE XI. In every case of a wreck, the nearest consul or vice-consul, may exercise his discretion in saving the vessel wrecked, with her cargo and appurtenances, and in…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 5 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 5 ] the disposal and cost of the consuls or vice consuls, the sailors and deserters so arrested, until an opportunity shall be presented of sending them out of the country.…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 6 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 6 ] Most Christian Majesty, or of the United States, as the case may be, shall be sufficient evidence thereof unless the contrary shall manifestly appear. ARTICLE XVII. Conformably to the…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 7 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 7 ] and on the exhibition which they shall make of the said exequatur, they shall be admitted and acknowledged in the terms and according to the powers, authority and privileges…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 8 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 8 ] They may in consequence appoint for the business of the said chancery capable persons, receive them, administer an oath to them, give to them the keeping of the seal,…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 9 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 9 ] ARTICLE IX. In case by storms or other accidents, French ships or vessels shall run ashore on the coasts of the United States, and the ships and vessels of…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 10 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 10 ] deserters of their respective nations, or send them back or transport them out of the country. It shall be a sufficient proof that the sailors and deserters belong to…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 11 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United … [ 11 ] by the certificate of the consul or vice consul of the district, mentioning their names, surnames and place of their settlement, as inscribed in the registers of the consulate,…
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
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Image 12 of The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United …
- Contributor: Sedgwick, Theodore - Franklin, Benjamin - France - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Vergennes, Charles Gravier
- Date: 1785
About this Item
Title
- The scheme of a convention, between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of North-America, for defining and regulating the functions and privileges of consuls, vice-consuls, agents and commissaries.
Names
- France.
- Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de, 1719-1787.
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813, former owner.
- Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [New York : s.n., 1785]
Headings
- - United States--Foreign relations--France
- - France--Foreign relations--United States
- - United States--New York--New York
Genre
- Broadsides--New York (N.Y.)--1785
- Treaties--United States--1784
- Treaties--France--1784
- Broadsheet format (Printing)--New York (N.Y.)--1785
Notes
- - Caption title.
- - "Done at Versailles, the 29th July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four. Signed: Gravier de Vergennes, (L.S.), B. Franklin, (L.S.) Faithfully translated from the original, by John Pintard"--P. 11.
- - Imprint supplied by Evans.
- - Evans 19330
- - Journals of the Continental Congress, 442
- - LC copy annotated at top of p. [1]: M. Sedgwick.
Medium
- 11 p. ; 31 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Cont Cong no. 104
Digital Id
- bdsdcc 10401 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.10401
Library of Congress Control Number
- 90898094
Online Format
- image
- online text
LCCN Permalink
Additional Metadata Formats
Part of
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789 (326)
- Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (10,875)
- Rare Book and Special Collections Division (28,875)
- American Memory (437,753)
- Library of Congress Online Catalog (1,712,424)
Format
Contributor
- Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- France
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Sedgwick, Theodore
- Vergennes, Charles Gravier