In Congress, April 3, 1776
Subtitle: Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of marque and reprisal for that purpose, shall produce a writing, subscribed by him, containing the name, and tonnage or burthen of the ship or vessel, the number of her guns, with their weight of metal ...
Contributors: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by John Dunlap
Published: 1776
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Privateering -- United States.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prizes, etc.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Signed: By order of Congress, [blank] president.
Imprint supplied from Evans.
LC copy signed in ms.: John Hancock. Annotated on verso: Duplicates.
Evans 15138
Journals of the Continental Congress, 105