Resolved,

That a Sum not exceeding four Millions of Dollars (exclusive of the Money which Mr. Adams may obtain by the Loan now negotiating in Holland) be borrowed in Europe on the Faith of the United States of America and applied towards defraying the Expences which shall be incurred and of those which during the present Year have been incurred for carrying on the War. Resolved,

That the Superintendant of Finance and Secretary for foreign Affairs take Order for carrying the above Resolution into Effect transmitting the same without Delay to the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of Versailles, and at the Hague. Resolved,

That the Minister Plenipotentiary of these United States at the Court of Versailles be and he is hereby instructed to communicate the foregoing Resolution to his most Christian Majesty and to assure his Majesty of the high Sense which the United States in Congress assembled entertain of his Friendship and generous Exertions, their Reliance on a Continuance of them, and the necessity of applying to his Majesty on the present Occasion. And the said Minister is further instructed to cooperate with the Superintendant of Finance and Secretary for foreign Affairs in the most effectual Means for giving Success to the said Loan.

Resolved

That the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at the Court of Versailles be informed that his Letters to the Superintendant of Finance and Secretary for foreign Affairs bearing date respectively the twenty fifth Day of June last have been laid before Congress, and that notwithstanding the Information contained in those Letters it is the Direction of Congress that he use his utmost Endeavours to effect the Loan which by the Resolve of the fourteenth Instant is ordered to be negotiated.