nnected with the best houses
in our country, and employed here by a committee of Congress to
purchase goods, we cannot conceive him capable of any wilful offence
against the laws of this nation. Our personal regard for him, as well
as the duty of our station, obliges us to interest ourselves in his
behalf, and to request, as we do most earnestly, that he may be
immediately restored to us.

We have the honor to be, &c.

B. FRANKLIN,
SILAS DEANE,
ARTHUR LEE.

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_Messrs Franklin and Deane's Contract with M. Holker._

We the undersigned acknowledge that we have authorised M. Holker to
treat with Messrs Sabatier & Despres, for five thousand coats,
waistcoats, and breeches, of which, two thousand five hundred coats
are to be blue, and two thousand five hundred brown, with facings,
linings, and collars of red, the waistcoats and breeches to be white,
agreeably to the present treaty, and to the same clauses and
conditions therein stipulated. Done at Paris, the 15th of August,
1777.

B. FRANKLIN,
SILAS DEANE.

The present contract done and signed in duplicates to be faithfully
executed on both sides, agreeably to its tenor and form. Paris, 6th of
August, 1777.

MONTIEU.
SILAS DEANE, _for
B. Franklin and self_.

_Amount of sundry Articles of Merchandise mentioned in the above
Contracts_;

6000 coats, complete, at 37 livres ea. 222,000
12000 pair woollen stockings, 30 pr. doz. 30,000
100,000 lbs. of copper, 27 pr. lb. 135,000
22,000 " sheet copper and nails, 33 pr. lb. 36,300
20,000 " English tin, 17 the c't w't 17,000
4 million flints, 4 pr. 100 16,000
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456,300

Sum total, four hundred fifty six thousand three hundred livres,
errors and omissions excepted.

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