Note 17 — PART III.
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The Congress of the United States thus expressed their sentiments in return.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be communicated to the National Assembly of France, the peculiar sensibility of Congress to the tribute paid to the memory of Benjamin Franklin by the enlightened and free representatives of a great nation, in their decree of the eleventh June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
Signed,
Fred. Aug. Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives. John Adams, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
Approved, March the 2d, 1791.
Signed,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.