6865. PRESENTS, Diplomatic.—
As custom
may have rendered some presents necessary in the beginning or progress of this business
[negotiation of a treaty with the Emperor of
Morocco] and before it is concluded, or even in
a way to be concluded, we authorize you to conform
to the custom, confiding in your discretion
to hazard as little as possible before a certainty
of the event. We trust to you also to procure
the best information as to what persons, and in
what form, these presents should be made, and
to make them accordingly.—
To Thomas Barclay. Washington ed. i, 421.
(P.
1785)
