ommence from the day you
receive this letter, if you be then at Paris, or from the day you set
out for Paris from any other place at which it may find you: it ceases
on receiving notice or permission to return, after which the additional
quarter's allowance takes place. You are free to name your own private
secretary, who will receive, from the public a salary of thirteen
hundred and fifty dollars a year, without allowance for any extras. I
have thought it best to state these things to you minutely, that you may
be relieved from all doubt as to the matter of your accounts. I will beg
leave to add a most earnest request, that on the 1st day of July next,
and on the same day annually afterwards, you make out your account to
that day, and send it by the first vessel, and by duplicates. In this
I must be very urgent and particular, because at the meeting of the
ensuing Congress always, it is expected that I prepare for them a
statement of the disbursements from this fund, from July to June
inclusive. I shall give orders by the first opportunity to our bankers
in Amsterdam, to answer your drafts for the allowances herein before
mentioned, recruiting them at the same time by an adequate remitment, as
I expect that by the time you receive this, they will not have remaining
on hand of this fund more than seven or eight thousand dollars.

You shall receive from me, from time to time, the laws and journals
of Congress, gazettes, and other interesting papers: for whatever
information is in possession of the public, I shall leave you generally
to the gazettes, and only undertake to communicate by letter, such,
relative to the business of your mission, as the gazettes cannot give.

From you I shall ask, once or twice a month regularly, a communication
of interesting occurrences in France, of the general affairs of Europe,
and transmission of the Leyden gazette, the Journal Logographe, and
the best paper of Paris for their colonial affairs, with such other
publications as may be important enough to be read by one who can spare
little time to read any thing, or which may contain matter proper to be
turned to on interesting subjects and occasions. The English packet is
the most certain channel for such epistolary communications as are
not very secret, and by those packets I would wish always to receive
a letter from you by way of corrective to the farrago of news they
generally bring. Intermediate letters, secret communications, gazett