Fourth Congress of the United States: at the first session :

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	United States
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 31336.
Subjects:	Maritime law > United States. Sailors > United States. Impressment.
Online Access:	Evans Digital Edition

An 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.

14th March, 1796, read the first and second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next : A bill for the relief and protection of American seamen.

District of Salem and Beverly. Extract from an act of the Congress of the United States of America, entitled "An act for the relief and protection of American seamen."

Extract from the act of Congress, passed the 28th day of May, 1796, entitled "An act for the relief and protection of American seamen."
Published: (1796)

Letter from the secretary of state : inclosing abstracts of all the returns made to him by the collectors of the different ports, of registered seamen, and of impressed seamen; together with a report, exhibiting abstracts of the communications received by him from the agents employed by virtue of the "Act to revive and continue in force certain parts of the act for the relief and protection of American seamen, and to amend the same," made in pursuance of the said act. : 12th December, 1800, ordered to lie on the table. : Published by order of the House of Representatives.
Published: (1800)

Report on the legislative provision necessary for the relief of American seamen, impressed into the service of foreign powers; and on a mode of furnishing American seamen with evidence of their citizenship : Published by order of the House of Representatives.

Letter from the secretary of state : inclosing abstracts of all the returns made to him by the collectors of the different ports, of registered and impressed seamen; together with a report exhibiting abstracts of the communications received by him, from the agents employed by virtue of the "Act to revive and continue in force certain parts of the act for the relief and protection of American seamen," and to amend the same;" made in pursuance of the said act. : 10th December, 1799, ordered, to lie on the table.

Letter from the secretary of state : accompanying a report and abstract of all the returns of registered American seamen, and of the protests and returns respecting impressed seamen, since the 17th of February, 1797, the date of his last report, which have been transmitted to him, by the collectors of the different ports, agreeably to the directions of the "Act for the relief and protection of American seamen;" and also, copies or abstracts of such communications from the agents employed by virtue of the same act, in foreign ports, as have been received;-- with sundry communications from the minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at London, on the same subject: in pursuance of a resolution of this House, of the 29th of November last. : 1st March, 1798. Referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures. : Published by order of the House of Representatives of the United States.

On the great evils of impressment : and its mischievous effects in the Royal Navy and the merchant ships : with the great benefits to the seamen, bestowed by the Registration Act, of the 30th July, 1835 /
by: Gourly, John
Published: (1838)

The sailors advocate : first printed in 1727-8 : to which is now prefixed, some strictures, drawn from the statutes and records, relating to the pretended right of taking away men by force, under the name of pressing seamen.

The Sailors advocate.

An act for impresting seamen : Die Veneris, 20 Februarii, 1650.
Published: (1650)

An act for impresting seamen : Die Veneris, 20 Februarii, 1650.

A letter to William Richmond, Esq : relative to the shipping interest of England, the reciprocity treaties, and the evils of impressment : the latter particularly exemplified in the case of the Brig Oak, of Whitby /
by: Moorsom, Richard, of Scarborough

An ordinance for continuing an act for impressing of sea-men. : Thursday 23 of March, 1653. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and the Council, that this ordinance bee forthwith printed and published. Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.
Published: (1653)

Remarks on impressing seamen.
Published: (1810)

Sea life, or, What may or may not be done, and what ought to be done by ship-owners, ship-masters, mates and seamen ... /
by: Sullivan, William, 1774-1839
Published: (1837)

Report of the committee of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts on the subject of impressed seamen : with the evidence and documents accompanying it /
Published: (1813)

Mr. Pickering's speech, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on Saturday the 26th and Monday the 28th of February, 1814 ... the House being in a committee of the whole, on the bill to authorize a loan of twenty-five millions of dollars.
by: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

The adventures of Roderick Random /
by: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
Published: (2012)

Letter from the secretary of state : inclosing abstracts of all the returns made to him by the collectors of the different ports, of registered seamen, and of impressed seamen; together with a report, exhibiting abstracts of the communications received by him from the agent employed by virtue of the "Act to revive and continue in force certain parts of the act for the relief and protection of American seamen, and to amend the same," made in pursuance of the said act. 12th December, 1800, ordered to lie on the table. Published by order of the House of Representatives.
by: Marshall, John, 1755-1835
Published: (1800)

An essay on the legality of impressing seamen.
by: Butler, Charles, 1750-1832

Message from the president of the United States : accompanying sundry papers relative to the impressment of American seamen, from on board public armed vessels of the United States, by vessels of war belonging to the king of Great-Britain: in pursuance of a resolution of this House, of the second instant. : 8th January, 1799. Ordered to lie on the table. : Published by order of the House of Representatives.

Great Britain. -- American seamen.
Published: (1810)

A letter to Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. on the subject of impressment : calling on him and the philanthropists of this country to prove those feelings of sensibility they expressed in the cause of humanity on Negro slavery by acting with the same ardour and zeal in the cause of British seamen.
by: Urquhart, Thomas
Published: (1816)

American seamen.
Published: (1796)

American seamen.
Published: (1801)

American seamen impressed.
Published: (1806)

Impressed American seamen.
Published: (1800)

Impressed American seamen.
Published: (1799)

Impressed American seamen.
Published: (1792)

In the Senate of the United States. Message from the President of the United States, in response to Senate resolution of December 15, 1891, relative to the alleged impressment of Nicolino Mileo, a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Published: (1892)

An Act for reviving an Act for impresting of seamen.
Published: (1659)

A True picture of the United States of America : being a brief statement of the conduct of the government and people of that country, towards Great Britain, from the peace concluded in 1783 to the present time /

A true picture of the United States of America : being a brief statement of the conduct of the government and people of that country, towards Great Britain, from the peace concluded in 1783 to the present time /
by: British subject
Published: (1807)

Fourth Congress of the United States: at the first session : begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the seventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five. : An act for the relief and protection of American seamen.

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