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Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States (1782)

Agreement signed at Versailles on 16 July 1782 that counted the French loans to the United States and set how they would be repaid.

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  1. 16 Jul 1782 Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States (1782)
  2. 16 Jul 1782 Benjamin Franklin signed Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States (1782)
  3. 16 Jul 1782 Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes signed Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States (1782)
  4. 16 Jul 1782 Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States (1782) written at Versailles
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  1. Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America, signed at Versailles July 16, 1782, Yale Law School, Avalon Project, 16 Jul 1782. Primary record
    we, Benjamin Franklin, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of North America, in like manner vested with full powers of the Congress of the said States for the present purpose
    we, Charles Gravier de Vergennes, etc., Counselor of the King in all his Councils
    It is agreed and certified that the sums advanced by His Majesty to the Congress of the United States under the title of a loan, in the years 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, and the present 1782, amount to the sum of eighteen million of livres, money of France
    signed at Versailles July 16, 1782
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