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Extract from the act of Congress, passed the 28th day of May, 1796, entitled "An act for the relief and protection of American seamen."
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 31337
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Government document
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- United States.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31337.
- Standardized Title:
- Act for the relief and protection of American seamen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sailors--United States.
- Sailors.
- United States.
- Impressment.
- Maritime law--United States.
- Maritime law.
- Genre:
- Broadsides.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- [Providence] : [publisher not identified], [1796]
- Notes:
- Sections 5 and 6 of the act, concerning American seamen detained or seized by any foreign power.
- One of two editions printed at Providence, R.I. The first line of the title ends "the 28th", section 5 contains nineteen lines of text and section 6 contains thirteen lines. Cf. Alden 1510.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31337).
- Cited in:
- Evans 31337
- Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1511
- OCLC:
- 55839193
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