The revolutionary paper for which the United States were indebted to Haym Salomon at his death, as per inventory, consisted of five species of revolutionary paper, before noticed, and amounted to $353,729 43.

Mr. Michael Nourse, the treasury register, states, February 23, 1849, that the probable amount which the United States would have paid for the above money and certificates, at the rate at which they funded paper, under the funding act of August 4, 1790, would have been (a small per centage) only $48,509 85, exclusive of interest, and the above $8,166 48 of Virginia State certificates, the value of which in 1790 he did not know. Many of the memorialist's most valuable papers and records, submitted to members and to committees of Congress, have been lost-among these were documents affording strong collateral proofs of the justice of his claim. He sent a large packet of revolutionary documents to Mr. Secretary Forward, which it appears that Mr. McClintock Young was unable to find among the papers of the department.

Another packet of his papers was left with President Tyler; and when the memorialist requested that it might be returned to him, the Assistant Postmaster General, Dr. N. M. Miller, replied that a large box belonging to the President had been lost; and he added: "I am apprehensive your papers were in that box: I regret much my inability to procure your papers.

Of the effect which a perusal of the evidence then offered by the memorialist produced on the mind of William C. Rives, now the envoy, from this government to France, his letter introducing the memorialist to President Tyler, in January, 1843, affords proof. He said: "I beg t present to you Mr. H. M. Salomon, who has such imposing testimonials of his own meritorious character, as well as of the important services rendered by his father to the holy cause of our revolutionary struggle, that it is but an act of justice to invite your favorable consideration."

Mr. Joseph Nourse, who was Register of the Treasury from 1777 @ 1828, writing the memorialist, dated Washington, June, 1827, in reply to a request relative to his father's property, says:

"I have cast back to those periods when your honored father was agent to office of finance; but the inroads of the British army in 1814 deprived us of every record in relation to the vouchers of the period to which I refer."

The importance of the secret support of Charles III, of Spain, is wel. known. It appears that in effecting that object, Mr. Salomon performed essential services. He maintained, from his own private purse, Don Fran cisco Rendon, the secret ambassador of that monarch, for nearly two years. or up to the death of Mr. S., during which Rendon's supplies were cut off.

In a letter of Don Francisco Rendon to the Governor General of Cuba, Don Jose Marie de Navarra, 1783, he says: "Mr. Salomon has advanced the money for the service of his most Catholic Majesty, and I am indebted to his friendship, in this particular, for the support of my character as his most Catholic Majesty's agent here, with any degree of credit and reputation; and without it, I would not have been able to render that protection and assistance to his Majesty's subjects, which his Majesty enjoins and my duty requires." Moneys thus advanced to the amount of about 10,000 Spanish dollars remained unpaid, when Mr. Salomon died shortly after.

On the accession of the Count de la Luzerne to the embassy from France, Mr. Salomon was made the banker of that government. A letter from Count Vergennes, Minister of State, to De la Luzerne, ambassador to this country, states the cost of the expeditions, during the first and second years of the alliance, at 150,000,000 livres; all of that sum which was disbursed in this country passing through the hands of Mr. Salomon, the mercantile commissions on which increased to a large amount the capital invested by him and devoted to the republic. He was also ap pointed, by Monsieur Roquebrune, treasurer of the forces of France in America, to the office of their paymaster general, which he executed free of charge. The day-book and leger of the Bank of North America, as appears from a statement authenticated by Mr. Hockly, the cashier, May 1, 1846, exhibit the receipt by Robert Morris, superintendent of finance, of nearly $200,000 in specie, commencing January 1, 1782, and continuing till 1784, when Mr. Salomon was seized with his fatal illness. The same records show that the only cash deposites made by Morris, to his own credit, were received from Mr. Salomon, whose account is charged with the exact sums deposited by Morris on the days said deposites were made by and credited to him at the bank.

No evidence can be found to show that Haym Salomon, his widow, or his children, ever received payment of the above $200,000, or of upwards of another $100,000 advanced by him, during the contest, to Roquebrune, De la Forest, Holker, Barbe Marbois, De la Luzerne, and others, accredited ministers or otherwise, acting as agents for foreign powers in open or secret alliance with America and France; and the probability, owing to Mr. Haym Salomon's sudden death without any relative or connexion capable of taking charge of his estate, and the unsettled character of the times, is, that the greater part never was paid; but the memorialist, at this late day, has refrained from asking the United States for the above remuneration, and confined himself to a demand of indemnity for the revolutionary paper, or evidences of debt, of which his father died seized, $353,000, and which it is clearly proved were never redeemed, or commuted for the benefit of the true owners-(if redeemed, a small per centage only was paid, as stated by the treasurer)-in his latest testimony.

It appears that Haym Salomon, during the most critical periods of the Revolution, made very liberal advances from his private funds to many of the most distinguished citizens then engaged in public affairs-moneys which were indispensable to their comfort, and which it is proved could not otherwise be obtained.

Gentlemen who, for their revolutionary services, have since that time filled the presidential chair, by double elections, were for a long time dependant on him for the means of subsistence.-(See Mr. Madison's letters.)

His vast pecuniary resources, exhibited to this committee, through extracts from the leger of the first bank, were entirely devoted to the use of the revolutionary government, were in the end thus jeopardized by his sudden demise, and finally lost to his widow and family.

Among the men of the Revolution whom he freely aided while they were discharging important public trusts, your committee find the names of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Arthur Lee, Baron Steuben, Generals Mifflin and St. Clair, Colonel Bland, J. F. Mercer, Joseph Jones, uncle to James Munroe, James Wilson, Robert Morris, Sc. The late Henry Wheaton, writing to the memorialist relative to his claim, says:

"It would be no more than requiting the debt of gratitude the country owes your honored father, who sustained, by his liberal munificence, the efforts of the patriots of the Revolution, who were compelled to sacrifice their private pursuits to the public. Among these may be mentioned Judge Wilson, so distinguished for his labors in the convention that formed the federal constitution, who must have retired from public service if he had not been sustained by the timely aid of your father, ad ministered with equal generosity and delicacy.

"There will also be found a letter from Mr. Madison to Edmund Randolph, in which that illustrious patriot bears testimony to the liberal and munificent spirit of your father, as evinced towards him and others in '82, a period in which the pecuniary condition of the country was extreme ly distressed."

Mr. Madison, writing to the memorialist from Montpelier, February 6, 1830, relative to the Virginia delegation, says:

"Dear Sir: The transactions shown by the papers you enclosed were the means of effectuating remittances for the support of the delegates, [t Congress] and the agency of your father therein was solicited on account of the respectability and confidence he enjoyed among those best acquainte with him."

Mr. Madison, addressing his colleagues, Messrs. Randolph and Jones while he was in the Revolutionary Congress, 1780 to 1783, says:

1. "The expediency of drawing bills on funds in Virginia, even th most unquestionable, has been tried by us, but in vain.'

2. "I am fast relapsing into pecuniary distress. The case of m brethren is equally alarming."

3. "I have been a pensioner for some time on the favor of Mr. Hays Salomon."

4. "I am almost ashamed to reiterate my wants so incessantly to you The kindness of our friend in Front street, near the coffee-house, (Hare Salomon,) is a fund that will preserve me from extremities; but I neve resort to it without great mortification, as he obstinately rejects all recom pense. To necessitous delegates he always spares them supplies."

In 1781 Mr. Morris, superintendent of finance, wrote the President c Congress that "the treasury was so much in arrears to the servants in the public offices, that many of them could not without payment perform the duties, but must have gone to jail for debts they have contracted to en ble them to live."

It was at a crisis like this that Mr. Salomon aided the government and members of Congress without any security, trusting in the honor of the American people when independence should have been secured.

Dr. Jared Sparks, president of Harvard University, and celebrated f his researches into the historical records of more than a thousand volumes of the archives of the United States and France, when writing to the me morialist from Cambridge, May 7, 1845, says:

"Among the numerous papers that have passed under my eye, I have seen evidences of his [meaning Mr. Haym Salomon's] transactions, which convince me that he rendered important services to the United States is their pecuniary affairs."

The committee, from the evidence before them, are induced to conside: Haym Salomon as one of the truest and most efficient friends of the country in a very critical period of its history, and when its pecuniary resources

were few and its difficulties many and pressing. He seems to have trusted implicitly to the national honor; and the committee are of opinion that, as in the case of Lafayette and others, the nation ought to be liberal in their indemnity to a son of an early benefactor in the day of its prosperity.

France, in the most pressing times during her revolutionary struggle, redeemed her paper obligations by means of the public domain; and generation after generation of revolutionary claimants in this country have been rewarded by a grateful people; nor ought the memorialist to be an exception. His claim, in the opinion of the committee, to the amount which the United States owed his father when he suddenly died, and which has been clearly established by the documents referred to in this report, is a just one, and the recompense he seeks ought not to be longer delayed.

Abundant proof is presented that Haym Salomon rendered very essential aid to the cause of the Revolution, and that he did so, judging by so many of his acts, disinterestedly and from a sincere and ardent love for human freedom.

The memorialist, who has spent much time and been at great expense from year to year, while respectfully pressing his claim on the consideration of Congress, asks for an indemnity commensurate with the extent of his claim; and being satisfied of its justice, and desirous that he should be indemnified, the committee report the accompanying bill, which is similar in amount to the bills reported by the House and Senate committees during the 29th and 30th Congresses.