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.
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