Letter from the secretary of state, accompanying a report and abstract of all the returns of registered American seamen, and of the protests and returns respecting impressed seamen, since the 17th of February, 1797, the date of his last report, which have been transmitted to him, by the collectors of the different ports, agreeably to the directions of the "Act for the relief and protection of American seamen;" and also, copies or abstracts of such communications from the agents employed by virtue of the same act, in foreign ports, as have been received;-- with sundry communications from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at London, on the same subject: in pursuance of a resolution of this House, of the 29th of November last. 1st March, 1798. Referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. Published by order of the House of Representatives of the United States.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Department of State 8868

United States. Congress (5th, 2nd session : 1797-1798). House, Author.

Contributor:

King, Rufus, 1755-1827

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

United States. Congress 1797-1798). House, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

9, [1], 13-55, [1] p., [1] folded leaf ; 2°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff, no. 27, Arch-Street, [1798]

Notes:

The folded leaf is inserted between p. [10] and 13.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 34841