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Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Printed document signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as Secretary of State, CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES...An Act making an Appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned. Philadelphia, 3 March 1791. 1 page, folio.
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JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Printed document signed ("Th: Jefferson"), as Secretary of State, CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES...An Act making an Appropriation for the purpose therein mentioned. Philadelphia, 3 March 1791. 1 page, folio.
JEFFERSON SIGNS OFF ON A BILL PAYING TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE BARBARY STATES. Jefferson strongly opposed paying tribute to the sultans of the Barbary states--they were essentially bribes for permitting American ships to pass through their Mediterranean ports. All other nations paid these "duties" as a cost of doing business in the region, and President Washington decided to do so as well. Here the Congressional lawmakers describe the payment destined for a sultan's purse in suitably decorous language, calling it an "appropriation...for the purpose of effecting a recognition of the treaty of the United States, with the new emperor of Morocco, there be and hereby is appropriated a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the monies which prior to the first of January next, shall arise from the duties imposed upon spirits distilled within the United States." The act further authorizes the President "to take on loan, the whole sum by this act appropriated...at an interest not exceeding six percent per annum..." After Jefferson became President in 1801--and after the Tripoli sultan decided he needed a larger "appropriation"--he decided to end this practice (at least in the case of Tripoli) through force of arms.
JEFFERSON SIGNS OFF ON A BILL PAYING TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE BARBARY STATES. Jefferson strongly opposed paying tribute to the sultans of the Barbary states--they were essentially bribes for permitting American ships to pass through their Mediterranean ports. All other nations paid these "duties" as a cost of doing business in the region, and President Washington decided to do so as well. Here the Congressional lawmakers describe the payment destined for a sultan's purse in suitably decorous language, calling it an "appropriation...for the purpose of effecting a recognition of the treaty of the United States, with the new emperor of Morocco, there be and hereby is appropriated a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the monies which prior to the first of January next, shall arise from the duties imposed upon spirits distilled within the United States." The act further authorizes the President "to take on loan, the whole sum by this act appropriated...at an interest not exceeding six percent per annum..." After Jefferson became President in 1801--and after the Tripoli sultan decided he needed a larger "appropriation"--he decided to end this practice (at least in the case of Tripoli) through force of arms.