The Commerce Committee to the American Commissioners
LS: American Philosophical Society; copy: Library of Congress
<York, May 16, 1778: We enclose a contract with Theveneau
de Francy as agent for Caron de Beaumarchais. You will please
liquidate and send the property of the accounts of Roderigue
Hortalez & Co., taking care to distinguish the property of the
crown from the company’s private property. We send an invoice
of the articles to be imported from France, and the relevant
actions of Congress. The British blockade has prevented
exporting tobacco to you, but we have sent several ships to
South Carolina for rice.>
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