An Act For The Government And Regulation Of Seamen In The Merchants Service Drop Title With Chap 23

by Congress Of The United States

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Boston: Jonathan Howe, ca. 1850. Unusually large broadsheet printed on blue paper approx. 21 x 17 ; manuscript docket in the margin, previous folds, one or two short tears; very good. With a wood-engraved eagle approx. 2 x 6 at the top of the recto and a slightly smaller wood engraving of a sailing vessel at the top of the verso. The recto contains the pertinent acts regarding seamen, the verso containing a ship's manifest: No ardent spirits allowed on

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