Letter from the secretary of state
Subtitle: 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.
Contributors: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829.; King, Rufus, 1755-1827.; United States. Congress House.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 34841.
Publisher: Printed by Way & Groff, no. 27, Arch-Street.
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Impressment; Sailors -- United States; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1797-1801; United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Signatures: [A]² B² C1 D-O² (O2 verso blank).

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

Evans 34841.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 34841).