In Congress, May 2, 1780. : Instructions to the captains and commanders of private armed vessels which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal.

Format:

Government document

Microformat

Author/Creator:

United States. Continental Congress.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privateering--United States.

Privateering.

Prize law--United States.

Prize law.

United States.

Contraband of war.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations.

History.

Sea control.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) ; 32 x 20 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Place of Publication:

[Passy, France] : [Printed by B. Franklin], [1781]

Notes:

Signed on p. [2]: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary.

A footnote to a line in the first paragraph reads: This exception is taken away by an ordinance of Congress, of March the 27th, 1781, which see.

Printed in 1781 at the Passy, France, press of Benjamin Franklin. See Livingston, Luther S. Franklin and his press at Passy (N.Y., 1914), p. 84-86.

Evans entry 17021 describes the Library of Congress copy of the present edition, but mistakenly ascribes it to the Philadelphia press of David C. Claypoole. The entry is listed among entries for 1780, but the presence of the footnote citing the 1781 ordinance is noted. Claypoole did print an edition of the Instructions in 1780; copies are reportedly held by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the John Carter Brown Library.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17021).

Cited in:

Evans 17021

OCLC:

99050145