An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, for promoting the discovery of a method for finding the longitude at sea, so far as relates to the encouragement and reward of persons making lesser discoveries for finding the same, or making other useful discoveries and improvements in navigation; and to the making of experiments relating thereto.
Great Britain.
London : printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan,
1777.
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno decimo septimo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XLVIII.'.
Imprint from general titlepage.
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo septimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of November, anno Domini 1774, .. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the thirty-first day of October, 1776; being the third session of the fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain.'.
Last word of first line of text: 'Four-'; first word of line below initial: 'rity'; last word of last full line of text: 'of'.
Text in black letter.
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