gende_: PAULO JONES CLASSIS PRAEFECTO.

_Exergue_: COMITIA AMERICANA.

_Revers_: Combat de vaisseaux.

_Legende_: PRIMUS AMERICANORUM TRIUMPHUS NAVALIS.

_Exergue_: AD ORAM SCOTIAE 23 SEPT. ANNO ...

_Autre legende_: HOSTIUM NAVIBUS CAPTIS AUT FUGATIS.

_Exergue_: Comme de l'autre part.

[Translation.] (p. xliii)

_Register of the Meetings and Deliberations of the Royal Academy of
Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres during the year 1789._

Tuesday, January 13, 1789.

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M. Dacier then announced that Mr. Jefferson, Minister of the
United States of America, begged the academy kindly to occupy
itself with the subjects of the three medals which Congress has
resolved to strike in honor of General Wayne, Major Stewart, and
Commodore Paul Jones. According to this request, the company have
decided that the commissioners[24] named in the preceding sitting
shall be charged with the composition of these medals.

[Footnote 24: These were Messrs. l'abbe Barthelemy,
l'abbe Garnier, l'abbe Le Blond, l'abbe Brotier, de
Vauvillier, Dupuis, and D. Poirier.]

Tuesday, February 10, 1789.

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M. Dacier submitted to the academy at the opening of the sitting,
the report of the commissioners in reference to the medals, with
the composition of which they had been intrusted.

At the suggestion of Mr. Jefferson, Minister of the United States
of America, the exergue of the medal formerly composed for
General Morgan was altered as follows:

FUGATIS CAPTIS AUT CAESIS AD COWPENS HOSTIBUS 17 JAN. 1781.

_Medal for General Wayne._

_Device_: America, recognizable by her shield, holds in her left
hand, which is elevated, a mural crown, and presents with her
right a crown of laurels to the general, who bends before her.

_Legend_: N. WAYNE DUCI EXERCITUS.

_Exergue_: COMITIA AMERICANA.

_Reverse_: The Rock and the Fort of Stony Point.

_Legend_: STONY POINT EXPUGNATUM.

_Exergue_: 15 JUL. 1779.

_For Major Stewart._

_Device_: America, standing as above, presents a palm to the
major, who bends before her.