An Act for the more effectual securing the duties now payable on foreign-made sail cloth imported into this kingdom; and for charging all foreign-made sails with a duty; and for explaining a doubt concerning ships being obliged at their first setting out to sea, to be furnished with one complete set of sails made of British sail cloth.
Great Britain.
[London : printed by Thomas Baskett; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett,
1746]
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno decimo nono Georgii II. Regis.' - Text in black letter.
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii II. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, decimo nono. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the first day of December, .. 1741, .. And from thence continued .. to the seventeenth day of October, 1745. being the fifth session of this present Parliament.' - Imprint from general titlepage.
Last word of first line of text: 'and'; first word of line below initial: 'Majesty,'; last word of last full line of text: 'Session'.
Signed on first leaf of text: 5Y2; no press fig.
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