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An Act to continue several laws for prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and first composed or written and printed in Great Britain for preventing exactions of the occupiers of locks and wears upon the river of Thames westward, and for ascertaining the rates of water carriage upon the said river; and for better securing the lawful trade of His Majesty's subjects to and from the East Indies; and for the more effectual preventing all His Majesty's subjects trading thither under foreign commissions; and relating to rice, to frauds in the customs, t the clandestine running of goods, and to copper ore of the British plantations; and for the free importation of cochineal and indico; and for punishment of persons destroying turnpikes, or locks, or other works erected by authority of Parliament.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Great Britain.
- Series:
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world
- Standardized Title:
- Public General Acts. 1746-1747. 20 & 21 Geo.II.c.47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Society of Friends--Great Britain.
- Society of Friends.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2], 967-972 p.)
- Other Title:
- Act to continue several laws for prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and first composed or written and printed in Great Britain
- Place of Publication:
- [London : printed by Thomas Baskett; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett, 1747]
- Notes:
- At head of drop-head title: 'Anno vicesimo Georgii II. Regis.' - Text in black letter.
- Last word of first line of text: 'after'; first word of line below initial: 'and'; last word of last full line of text: 'the'.
- Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, vicesimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, .. 1741, .. And from thence continued .. to the eighteenth day of November, 1746. being the sixth session of this present Parliament.' - Imprint from general titlepage.
- Reproduction of the original from the Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
- OCLC:
- 508263047
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