No. 12. By the United States in Congress assembled.

Resolved,

That the Honorable Henry Laurens be informed in answer to his Letter of the 30th. May 1782, that the Reasons which induced the United States in Congress assembled to appoint him to be one of their Ministers Plenipotentiary for negociating a Peace still existing, his Services in the Execution of that Trust cannot be dispensed with. Resolved,

That the honorable John Adams Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens be respectively informed that it is the Pleasure and express Direction of Congress, that they punctually attend and assist in the Negociations for Peace and that each of them, be instructed upon receiving Information of the Time and Place appointed for opening the Negociations immediately to give Notice thereof to the rest that may be in Europe in order that each may have a seasonable opportunity to take Part in the trust reposed by the said Commission and earnestly enjoined by this Act.