Decree of the King's Council of State, granting premiums for the encouragement of French merchants, who shall carry dried cod-fish of the national fishery, to the Windward and Leeward Islands; also to the European ports, as Italy, Spain and Portugal
Subtitle: September 18, 1785. Extract from the registers of the Council of State.
Contributors: Castries, Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de, 1727-1800.; Loudon, Samuel, 1727?-1813, printer.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Loudon?
Published: 1786
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Fish trade -- United States.; Fish trade -- France.; Atlantic cod fisheries -- United States.; Atlantic cod fisheries -- France.
Notes: Evans 19009
Journals of the Continental Congress, 530
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Includes drafts of declaration and warrants.
Caption title.
"Done in the King's Council of State ... held at St. Cloud, the eighteenth of September, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five. Signed, the Marechal de Castries"--P. [2]. "Faithfully translated from the original, by John Pintard"--P. [3].
Imprint from Evans. Journals of the Continental Congress 530 gives 1786 as the imprint date.
Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the JCC, v. 31, p. 961-962 (#530); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
Followed by: Decree of the King's Council of State, raising the tax imposed on the cod-fish of the foreign fishery, which shall be imported into the Windward and Leeward Islands of America, to five livres per quintal. Of the 25th September, 1785 ... Signed, the Marechal de Castries ... Faithfully translated from the original, by John Pintard.