I have thought it would
be most agreeable to you to give you precise information, that you may
be in no doubt in what manner to state your accounts. Be pleased to
settle your account down to the 1st of July last, and state the balance
then due, which will be to be paid out of the former fund. From that
day downwards, a new account must be opened, because a new fund is
appropriated to it, from that time. The expenses for the medals,
directed in my letter of April the 30th, must enter into the new
account. As I presume the die will be finished by the time you receive
this, I have to desire you will have a medal of gold struck for the
Marquis de la Luzerne, and have put to it a chain of three hundred and
sixty-five links, each link containing gold to the value of two dollars
and a half, or thirteen livres and ten sous. The links to be of plain
wire, so that their workmanship may cost as it were nothing. The whole
will make a present of little more than one thousand dollars, including
the medal and chain. As soon as done, be pleased to forward them by a
safe hand to the Marquis de la Luzerne, in the name of the President
of the United States, informing him that it is the one spoken of in my
letter to him of April the 30th, 1790. Say nothing to any body of the
value of the present, because that will not always be the same, in all
cases.
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