General orders for the government of officers in the plantations, with index thereto
Contributors: Great Britain. Customs Establishment
Publisher: Printed by H. Teape, Tower-Hill, for His Majesty's Stationary Office.
Published: 1805
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Prize law; Commerce; Salaries; Officials and employees
Notes: Text consists of orders numbered I-CXI and issued by the Custom-House, London from 1767-1805; leaf between number XLIX and L is not numbered.

"Index to general orders", p. [1]-7, 2nd count, gives a listing of orders which covers rules and regulations for officials, how accounts are transmitted, trade with the colonies in the West Indies and India, for commodities such as coffee, cocoa, gold, rum, fish, tobacco, whale oil, and wine, and topics such as trade embargoes, prize law, salaries of colonial officials, slavery, and smuggling.

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Purchase; 2017; 18-258.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in later burgundy morocco with green bookcloth covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Tate Fund.