It is agreed, between the Master and Seamen, or Mariners, of the [blank] whereof [blank] is at present Master, or whoever shall go for Master, now bound from the Port of [blank] ...
Publisher: Sold by James A. Burtus, no. 19 Peck Slip, corner of Water-street.
Published: 1830
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.
Language: eng
Subjects: Merchant mariners; Legal status, laws
Notes: Printed form: mariners' contract. Names of mariners, place of birth, length of service, wages, etc. to be supplied at outset of voyage.

Verso: form to be filled out by notary public; Acts of Congress of the United States of America for the government of seamen, merchants, &c. (1790, 1803, 1817, 1819); release form to be signed by mariners upon completion of voyage.

Head of title, recto and verso: United States of America.

Imprint from verso.

Library copy filled out in manuscript: Transit (Ship) of Bath, Me., bound from New York to Africa; signed and dated (recto) Dec. 12, 1837 and (verso) June 1838.