An Act for explaining and rendering more effectual two Acts, one made in the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for providing a publick reward for such person or persons as shall discover the longitude at sea : and the other in the twenty sixth yea of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, An Act to render more effectual an Act made in the twelfth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for providing a publick reward for such person or persons as shall discover the longitude at sea, with regard to the making experiments of proposals made for discovering the longitude; and to enlarge the number of commissioners for putting in execution the said Act.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Great Britain.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Public General Acts. 1765. 5 Geo.III.c.20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longitude--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Longitude.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,367-374 pages ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed by Mark Baskett; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1765.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

At head of drop-head title: 'Anno quinto Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XX.'.

Text in black letter.

Last word of first line of text: 'Acts'; first word of line below initial: 'made'; last word of last full line of text: 'same.'.

Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, quinto. At the Parliament begun .. the nineteenth day of May, anno Dom. 1761. .. And from thence continued by several prorogations to the tent day of January, 1765, being the fourth session of the twelfth Parliament of Great Britain.'.

Imprint from general titlepage.

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 Boston Public Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N56852.

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