Second Congress of the United States: At the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
Subtitle: An act concerning the claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States
Contributors: United States. Congress.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 24893
Publisher: Printed by Childs and Swaine
Published: 1792
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Cutting, John Browne, -- 1755?-1831; Claims; Saline water conversion -- Distillation process
Other titles: Act concerning the claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States
Work titles: Act concerning the claim
Notes: "Approved, May eighth, 1792."

Followed by a resolution of the Congress "that the secretary of the treasury cause to be provided, for the use of the several collectors in the United States, printed clearances, on the back whereof shall be a printed account of the methods ... for obtaining fresh, from salt water ... Approved, May eighth, 1792."

Francis Childs and John Swaine were printers to the Congress in 1792

Printed area measures 24.1 x 13.0 cm

Evans 24893

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 24893)