Office for Foreign Affairs, 13th May, 1785. : The Secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred a letter of the 21st March last, from Richard Soderstrom, reports as his opinion, that no state is obliged by the laws of nations to receive or admit consuls from any foreign state; and consequently every sovereign has a right to admit them on such terms and conditions only as he may think proper... All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay.

Format:

• Government document
• Microformat

Contributor:

• Jay, John, 1745-1829.
• Soderstrom, Richard, 1742 or 1743-1815.
• United States. Continental Congress.

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19318.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Consular law.
• Consuls.
• Diplomatic and consular service, American.

Genre:

• Broadsides.

Physical Description:

• 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 42 x 27 cm
• 4x6 in.
• monochrome
• service copy
• negative

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Printed by John Dunlap], [1785]

Notes:

• Library of Congress entries in NUC Pre-1956 imprints ascribe other 1785 publications of the department to the press of John Dunlap of New York.
• Printed area measures 28.5 x 16.1 cm.
• Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19318).

Cited in:

Evans 19318

OCLC:

55823041