I have the honor to be, with perfect esteem and respect, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, Th: Jefferson. P. S. The resolution of Congress, relative to the prize money received here, speaks of that money as paid to me. I hope this matter is properly understood. The treasury board desired me to receive it, and apply it to such and such federal purposes; and they would pay the dividends of the claimants in America. This would save the expense of remittance. I declined, however, receiving the money, and ordered it into the hands of their banker, who paid it away for the purposes to which they had destined it. I should be sorry an idea should get abroad, that I had received the money of those poor fellows, and applied it to other purposes. I shall, in like manner, order the Danish and Barbary money into the hands of bankers, carefully avoiding ever to touch a sou of it, or having any other account to make out than what the banker will furnish. T. J. LETTER CXIX.--TO MONSIEUR LIMOZIN, December 22, 1787 TO MONSIEUR LIMOZIN. Paris, December 22, 1787. Sir, I have the honor now to acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the 18th and 19th of November, and two of the 18th of the present month. I did not write to you immediately on the receipt of the two first, because the observation they contained were to be acted on here. I was much obliged to you for them, as I have been frequently before for others, and you will find that I have profited by them in the _Arrêt_ which is to come out for the regulation of our commerce, wherein most of the things are provided for, which you have from time to time recommended. With respect to the article of yellow wax, I think there is a general clause in the _Arrêt_, which will take it in; but I am not sure of it. If there be not, it is now too late to get any alteration made. You shall receive the _Arrêt_ the moment it is communicated to me.