The ship-Master's assistant and owner's manual : containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to Officers and other in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In The Course Of Which, The following Subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & Other Ship-Accounts. With Accounts for the Coal-Trade, and valuable Remarks thereon. 2. Instructions for the Officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and Imaginary Monies of the World: and Tables of the Agreement which the Weights and Measures of the principal Places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of Captures by his Majesty's Ships and private Vessels of War. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and Seamen's Wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of Regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, Charter-Parties, & Demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. Pilots and Pilotage, and Rates of Pilotage in the Royal Navy. 15. Marine Insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomby and Respondentia 18. Bills of Exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights. 24. Southern Whale-Fishery. 25. British Fisheries. 26. Newfoundland Fisheries. 27. Oister-Fisheries. 28. Regulation of Seamen in the Coasting-Trade. 29. Slave-Trade. 30. Act for Registering Boats, Barges, &c. 31. Act for Consolidation of the Duties. 32. Duties in the United States of America. 33. Duties at the Sound. The seventh edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the Acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steel, David.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipping.

Bookkeeping.

Commercial law.

Maritime law--Great Britain.

Maritime law.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages,358 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for David Steel, at the Navigation-Warehouse, No. 1. Union-Row, Little Tower-Hill, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Gentleman of the Inner Temple = David Steel.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Graduate School of Business.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N46347.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.