The sixth to enable Congress, without injuring the dignity of their Ministers, to proportion the allowance to the expense of the Court they reside at, as well us to the port which they would wish them to maintain. I have the honor to be, &c. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. * * * * * Office of Foreign Affairs, May 9th, 1782. The Secretary of Foreign Affairs humbly submits the following resolutions to the consideration of Congress. ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. Resolved, That Mr Carmichael be appointed Secretary to the Embassy from the United States to the Court of Versailles, with a salary of four thousand dollars per annum. Resolved, That Mr Jay be empowered to appoint a private secretary, with a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. Resolved, That Mr Laurens, when he enters upon his mission to the United Provinces of the Low Countries, be empowered to appoint a Secretary with a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. Resolved, That the Commissioners for negotiating a peace, in case Mr Dana shall not return, appoint a Secretary to the Commission, with a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. Resolved, That the commission of Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Petersburg be revoked, and that a commission issue to Francis Dana, constituting him Resident at the said Court. Resolved, That when he shall have been received in that character, he be empowered to appoint a private secretary, with a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum, who shall remain in office till Congress think it proper to make another appointment. Resolved, That the appointment of no Secretary to any of the Northern Courts in future, shall exceed a thousand dollars per annum, and that the appointments of a Secretary to the Embassy in France, Spain and Holland, shall in future be twelve hundred dollars, excepting such Secretaries have been heretofore appointed. Resolved, That the salary of a Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States, from the 1st day of January next, shall not exceed five thousand dollars, or that of a Resident three thousand, but that an allowance be made for household expenses, at and after the following manner; To the Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Versailles, To the Minister in Spain, To the Resident in the United Provinces, (a Minister being unnecessary,) To the Resident at the Court of Petersburg, and each of the other Northern Courts. * * * * * CHARLES THOMSON TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON. May 9th, 1782. Sir,