Congress of the United States. At the second session, begun and held at the city of New-York, on Monday the 4th of January, 1790.
Subtitle: An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants' service.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 23849.
Publisher: Printed by T. Fleet, Jun.
Published: 1793
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Contracts, Maritime; Merchant mariners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; Maritime law -- United States -- History
Work titles: Act for the government and regulation of seamen.
Notes: "Approved, July twentieth, 1790."

Followed, on verso, by a blank form of agreement between ship's master and enlisting seamen.

Evans entry 23849 calls for an edition printed by Samuel Hall in 1791; according to Shipton & Mooney "This is apparently the copy seen by Evans; there were several eds." Thomas Fleet, Jun. printed at Boston beginning in 1793.

Text of act in three columns.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

Not in Ford, W.C.  Broadsides.

READEX NOTE: Filmed as Evans 23849.

Shipton & Mooney 23849.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 23849)