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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Extract from An act, for the relief and protection of American seamen
  title info:
    title: Act for the relief and protection of American seamen
  name:
    name part: United States
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Broadsides.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: riu
    date issued: 1796
    date issued: 1809
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 21 x 11 cm.
  note: Sections 5 and 6 of the act passed on May 28, 1796, concerning American seamen detained or seized by any foreign power. Signed: A true extract:-- [blank] To be distributed by district collectors "from time to time ... to all masters of ships and vessels of the United States."--section 6.
  note: Several editions noted. In this edition the title ends "pro-"; section 5 contains twenty-five lines of text and section 6 contains twenty lines.
  note: The only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is signed in ms. by William Ellery, district collector for the Treasury Department at Newport, R.I., from 1790 to 1820. Typographical evidence suggests imprint date before 1810.
  note: Presumably printed by Henry Barber, the only printer active at Newport, R.I., in 1796 and 1797, or by Ann Barber who succeeded her husband and operated the printing office of the Newport Mercury from 1800 to 1809.
  note: Printed area measures 16.8 x 8.5 cm.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Bristol B9751
  note: Shipton & Mooney 47979
  note: Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
  note: 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. 47979).
  subject:
    topic: Sailors
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Impressment
  subject:
    topic: Maritime law
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    hierarchical geographic:
      country: United States
      state: Rhode Island
      city: Newport
  related item:
    note: Bristol B9751
  related item:
    note: Shipton & Mooney 47979
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Early American imprints. no. 47979
      part number: Series I
      part name: Evans (1639-1800)
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    location:
      url: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: MWA
    record creation date: 820623
    record change date: 20260331161508.9
    record identifier: in00002149690