Livres. In 1778, 3,000,000 In 1779, 1,000,000 In 1780, 4,000,000 In 1781, 10,000,000 ---------- Total, 18,000,000 From this sum must be taken the gratuitous subsidy granted last year of 6,000,000 ---------- Remains 12,000,000 To this must be added, 1st the produce of the loan in Holland, 10,000,000 2dly, The loan made by his Majesty for the service of the current year, 6,000,000 --------- Total of the capital of the debt contracted by the United States with his Majesty, 28,000,000 I am ordered, Sir, to renew to you the demand, which I had the honor to make before, to the purport that Congress should authorise Dr Franklin to consolidate the principal and interest of that debt, by an obligation in proper form. You are so firmly resolved, Sir, to preserve the order you have introduced into your department, that it would be superfluous to reiterate to you the assurance, that his Majesty will under no pretext exceed the sum of six millions, which he has determined to advance to the United States for the current year. This exactness, which is in all cases indispensable, has become still more so now, that the enemy seem determined to adopt a system, which obliges us to turn the greatest part of our resources to a marine. I am persuaded, Sir, that you can have no doubt as to the interest of Loan Office certificates, and that you will not consider it as being at our expense, seeing that no engagement of that sort has ever been taken by us. If bills for this interest should continue to be forwarded, those who draw must provide for the payment of them. LUZERNE. * * * * * TO B. FRANKLIN. Office of Finance, May 29th, 1782. Dear Sir, I do myself the honor to enclose you copies of two Acts of Congress, one of the 5th of June, and the other of the 18th of June, 1779, relating to the affairs of M. de Beaumarchais.