By His Excellency [blank] Esquire, governor, captain-general, and commander in chief, of and over the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
Subtitle: Instructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes. ... Given under my hand, and the seal of the said state, at [blank] this [blank] day of [blank] ... one thousand seven hundred seventy [blank.]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 43690.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1779
Place of publication: [Rhode Island
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Privateering -- Rhode Island.; Rhode Island -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
Notes: Specifying those ships which are the legitimate prey of privateers, and outlining the procedures to be observed once they are taken.

Eleven numbered rules.

The John Carter Brown Library copy is dated in ms.: June 28, 1779, and is signed: W. Greene. William Greene was governor of Rhode Island from 1778-1786.

Bristol B4950.

Shipton & Mooney 43690.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43690)