An ordinance, ascertaining what captures on water shall be lawful : In pursuance of the powers delegated by the Confederation in cases of capture on water.
Summary
Signed: John Hanson, president. Attest. Charles Thomson, secretary.
Followed by: The act referred to in the foregoing ordinance is as follows ...
Evans 17393
Journals of the Continental Congress, 361
LC copy annotated on verso: Ordinance of Congress respecting prizes, Decemr. 4, 1781.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Formerly LCCN tes52-811. qr03 09-12-90
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Date
01/01/1781
Contributors
United States.
Hanson, John, 1715-1783.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Claypoole, David C., 1757?-1849, printer.
United States. Continental Congress.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain