(MARITIME.) Second Congress of the United States . . . An Act for Enrolling and Licensing Ships or Vesselsto be Employed in the Coasting Trade and Fisheries. Folio, disbound; minor dampstaining. In 1/4-morocco folding case and worn slipcase. [Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, 1793]
Issued the year following Jefferson's Report . . . on the Subject of the Cod and Whale Fisheries. The act establishes guidelines for taxation and granting of licenses, with particular reference to the whale and cod fisheries. It ranks amongst the most important laws enacted with regard to the American maritime industry. Evans 26307.
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