<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:identifier>doi:10.7916/h627-2g87</dc:identifier><dc:title>Document, 1779 October 16</dc:title><dc:format>correspondence</dc:format><dc:type>text</dc:type><dc:subject>United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783</dc:subject><dc:subject>Jay, John, 1745-1829</dc:subject><dc:description>Jay appointed to treat with Spain and Adams to treat with Great Britain.
            Carmichael will be Jay's secretary and Francis Dana to Adams. The ministers to receive
            2500 pounds and the secretaries 1000 pounds. Franklin asked to supply them each with
            2000 livres d'or in distributions proportioned to the irrespective salaries. Congress
            will shortly take measures for paying back this sum.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>