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extract of the act, entitled "An act, for the relief and protection of American seamen;"
passed in the Fourth Congress of the United States, at the first session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the seventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five
Act for the relief and protection of American seamen
Sections 5 and 6 of the act, concerning American seamen detained or seized by any foreign power.
"Approved,--May the twenty-eighth, 1796."
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31340).