An ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful.
Contributors: United States. Continental Congress.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17393.
Publisher: Printed by David C. Claypoole, in Market-Street.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Prize law -- United States; Privateering -- United States
Notes: "Done by the United States in Congress assembled, the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one ... John Hanson, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary."

Followed by: The act referred to in the foregoing ordinance is as follows.

Text in three columns.

Evans 17393.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17393)