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5259. MINISTERS (Foreign), Reception of.—[continued].

The reception of the
minister at all * * * (in favor of which
Colonel Hamilton has given his opinion, though
reluctantly, as he confessed), is an acknowledgment
of the legitimacy of their [the French] government.—
Opinion on French Treaties. Washington ed. vii, 616. Ford ed., vi, 223.
(1793)