Dr. Franklin in a letter dated Philadelphia 29th. November 1788 and directed to the President of Congress, mentions that he had settled his accounts with Mr. Barclay, but had not finally closed them, because he had some equitable demands for extra services respecting which he wished the opinion of Congress, Mr. Barclay not conceiving himself empowered to allow them. He refers to and encloses in this letter, one he wrote to Mr. Barclay dated Passy 25th. June 1785, wherein he claims and continues to charge for his Salary under an act of Congress of 5th. October 1799 £2500 sterling per annum, and says that the subsequent act which reduces the Salary of a Minister plenipotentiary to £2000, can only relate to such Plenipotentiaries as should be afterwards appointed; as he conceives that Congress after promising a minister £2500 a year and thereby encouraging him to live in a certain stile for their honor, which that Salary only can support, could not think it just to diminish it one fifth, and leave him under the difficulty of reducing his expences proportionably, a thing scarce practicable. Dr. Franklin’s Leter to the President of Congress of 29 November 1788, relating to his public Accounts & Services, has the following Endorsement on it in the Handwriting of Mr. Secy. Thomson— “Recd.—but not read in Congress there being no House formed from 1st. Novr. to commencement of Government under the new Constitution.”