PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE,
IN SECRET SESSION, WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONVENTION WITH THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
Tuesday, December 16, 1800.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States:
Gentlemen of the Senate:
I transmit to the Senate, for their consideration and decision, a convention, both in English and French, between the United States of America and the French Republic, signed at Paris, on the thirtieth day of September last, by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers. I also transmit to the Senate, three manuscript volumes, containing the journal of our Envoys.
JOHN ADAMS.
United States, Dec. 15, 1800.
The Message and convention were read; and after progress in reading the other papers accompanying the Message,