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Item Title
In Congress, May 2, 1780 : Instructions to the captains and commanders of private armed vessels which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal.
United States. Continental Congress.
Created/Published
[Passy, France : Benjamin Franklin, 1781]
Notes
Signed on p. [2]: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary.
Originally published: Philadelphia : David Claypoole, 1780.
Imprint from Livingston. Probably printed about the end of April, 1781. Cf. Livingston, L.S. Franklin and his press at Passy, p. 84-86.
Footnote to first article of text, at bottom of p. [1]: *This exception is taken away by an ordinance of Congress, of March the 27th, 1781, which see.
Evans 17021
Livingston, L.S. Franklin and his press at Passy, 29
Journals of the Continental Congress, 331
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.
Subjects
Privateering--United States.
Prize law--United States.
Broadsides--France--Passy--1781.
France--Passy.
Broadsheet format (Printing)--France--Passy--1781.
Related Names
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, printer.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Medium
1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 31 x 20 cm.
Call Number
Cont Cong no. 64
Digital ID
bdsdcc 06401 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.06401