1. On 9 Jan. Washington had sent a confidential message to both houses of Congress on relations with Algiers. He included documents from the state and treasury departments, which revealed that a decline in the value of 6 percent stock had led to a shortfall of $255,759.03 in the amount borrowed from the Bank of the United States to fulfill the terms of the treaty signed with Algiers on 5 Sept. 1795. Since the financial arrangements had been the most difficult aspect of the negotiations, the situation placed the treaty in jeopardy and threatened to expose American shipping in the Mediterranean to renewed seizures. After further debate behind closed doors on 17 Jan. and 13 and 14 Feb., the House resolved to appropriate additional sums for relations with Algiers, lifted its injunction of secrecy on 21 Feb., and published the documents. On 22 Feb. JM voted for a bill authorizing an appropriation to cover the costs of observing the treaty (ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States … (38 vols.; Washington, 1832–61). description ends , Foreign Relations, 1:553–58; Annals of Congress description begins Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … (42 vols.; Washington, 1834–56). description ends , 4th Cong., 2d sess., 2235, 2246; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (9 vols.; Washington, 1826). description ends , 2:747–49).