By The United States in Congress Assembled

On Motion of the Delegates of the State of South-Carolina in pursuance of Instructions from their State.

Resolved, That the Minister of the United States at the Court of Madrid, be, and he is hereby instructed to use his best Endeavours by a proper Application in behalf of the State of South-Carolina to his Catholic Majesty, to obtain an adequate Compensation to that State for the Service performed by the South-Carolina Frigate, in co-operating with the Spanish General and Forces in the Expedition against, and Reduction of Providence and the Bahama Islands, in the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two; and that the said Minister be further directed to place such Money as he shall obtain from the King of Spain in proper Hands, subject to the Draft of the Governor and Commander in Chief of the said State for the Use thereof, and to give to his said Excellency the earliest Intelligence of the Success of his Application.