Office for Foreign Affairs, 7th October, 1785
Subtitle: The secretary of the United States for the Department of Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the representation of certain French merchants, against the acts of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts for regulating navigation and commerce, &c. reports ...
Contributors: Jay, John, 1745-1829.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Harbors -- Law and legislation -- New Hampshire.; Harbors -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts.; Navigation -- Law and legislation -- New Hampshire.; Navigation -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts.; Commercial law -- New Hampshire.; Commercial law -- Massachusetts.; France -- Commerce -- United States.; United States -- Commerce -- France.
Notes: Recommendations concerning acts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts excluding French vessels from all but certain ports. Report submitted October 10, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 817-820.
Signed: All which is submitted to the wisdom of Congress. John Jay.
Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in JCC, v. 29, p. 929 (#503); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33, p. 753.
LC copy annotated on verso: Secrety. F.A. Rept. on Massachts. navigatn. act.
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Evans 19322
Journals of the Continental Congress, 503