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.