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, recto

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Creator / Contributor: United States. Continental Congress
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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, recto
Collection Title: Revolutionary Era broadsides, 1775-1783
Place: [Passy, France]
Publisher: [Benjamin Franklin]
Date: 1780-05-02
[1781]
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 31 x 20 cm
Description: 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. References: Evans 17021; Livingston, L.S. Franklin and his press at Passy, 29; Journals of the Continental Congress, 331.
Identifier: Broadsides -- SY1781 no.11
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Subject: Privateering--United States
Prize law--United States
Material type or medium of original: broadsides (notices)
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