1823 Feb Trip. H ?.8. Preliminary Steps

Agent as above, before he /his place/ could be supplied from Washington,

provision be made, of a sufficient number of Agents at Tripoli, to follow one

another in eventual succession: in which case, for further security against

eventual incapacity, (considering the destruction which as above would be the

natural consequence of any violation of secrecy, antecedently to the open

commencement of the enterprise, and that no person would be appointed by you for

whom there was any apprehension on the score of probity) you will be pleased to

judge, whether it might not be of use, that the several instruments, by which

the several appointments were respectively made of successive Agents, were

lodged in any hands or those of any substitute of mine in Tripoli as above.

9. That, with a view to the augmenting the number of persons, qualified to

afford us advice and assistance or advice in relation to the formation of a

”Constitution•, and at the same time to communicate information, in regard to

those useful branches of ”art and science•, which are as yet unknown to us, you

would be pleased to afford such encouragement, as it may lie in your way to

afford, to competent individuals, to visit the several Barbary States, in the

character of Travellers, for the information of your own country and the rest of

the world, and eventually as ”Lecturers• in the several branches of useful art

and science, belonging to the department of ”physics•: and in particular Natural

Philosophy, Natural History, and the several branches on which the Medical art

is dependent