A translation of the French King's ordinance relating to the enrolling of sea-officers, sailors and sea-faring people
Subtitle: the 15th of April, 1689
Publisher: Printed for J. Millan ...
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 30
Notes: Contains articles relating to New France and Newfoundland.

"Artic. XXIII. The merchants and French privateers who shall send ships to the Islands of America, New France, and other colonies, shall declare to the commissaries or clerks within the district where they shall fit out, the men whom they shall have engaged for thirty-six months, in order to verify whether they are not enrolled as sailors. His Majesty forbids their engaging any sailor for thirty-six months upon pain of forfeiting five hundred livres"--Page 20-21.

"Artic. XXIV. The captains, masters and owners of merchant ships, who have a mind to perform the voyage from Newfoundland and the Islands of America, shall navigate their vessels with French sailors, preferably to such foreigners as are neither enrolled or settled in the country, upon pain of forfeiting a hundred livres"--Page 21-22.

Signatures: A-D⁴.

Refernce: NUC pre-1956, v. 182, p. 4.