416. APPROPRIATIONS, Diverting.—[continued].
If it should appear that
the Legislature has done their part in furnishing
the money for the French nation, and
that the Executive departments have applied
it to other purposes, then it will certainly be
desirable that we get back on legal ground as
soon as possible, by pressing on the domestic
funds and availing ourselves of any proper
opportunity which may be furnished of replacing
the money to the foreign creditors.—
To President Washington.
Ford ed., vi, 177.
(1793)
