Note 24 — THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CONRAD ALEXANDER GERARD; MINISTER FROM FRANCE.
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Congress took into consideration the Memorial respecting prisoners, and thereupon
"Resolved, that all prisoners taken, or which may be taken, by the squadron of his Most Christian Majesty, under the command of the Count d'Estaing, Vice-Admiral of France, be received by the Commissary-General of prisoners, and that he provide for their safe custody and subsistence in like manner as has been usual for the prisoners of these States. That he make monthly returns of all prisoners, which shall be by him so received, to the Board of War. That he make monthly returns to the treasury, of the accounts of all moneys expended for the purposes aforesaid, and that the prisoners be held at the disposal of his Most Christian Majesty, and subject to the orders of his Excellency Count d'Estaing.
"Ordered, that the paper relative to the encouragement given by the Count d'Estaing to American armed vessels, whether public or private, be published."