The ship-Master's assistant and owner's manual containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant-service, as to Officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In The Course Of Which, The following Subjects are particularly elucidated: 1. Disbursements, & Other Ship-Accounts. With Accounts fot the Coal-Trade, and valuable Remarks thereon. 2. Instructions for the Officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Exchanges. 4. Real and imaginary Monies of the World; and Tables of the Agroement which the Weights and Measures of the principal Places of Europe have with each other. 5. Of Captures by his Majesty's Ships and private Vessels of War. 6. Privateers. 7. Owners. 8. Masters. 9. Seamen and Seamen's Wages. 10. Impressing. 11. Articles of Regulation for the Royal Navy. 12. Freight, Charter-Parties, & Demurrage. 13. Ballast. 14. Pilots and Pilotage. 15. Marine Insurances. 16. Averages. 17. Bottomry and Respondentia 18. Bills of Exchange. 19. Quarantinf. 20. Navigation-Acts. 21. Smuggling-Acts. 22. Manifest-Act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights. 24. Southern Whale-Fishery. 25. British Fisheries. 26. Newfoundland Fisheries. 27. Oister-Fisheries. 28. Regulation of Seamen in the Coasting-Trade. 29. Slave-Trade. 30. Act for Registering Boats, Barges, &c. 31. Act for Consolidation of the Duties. 32. Duties in the United States of America. 33. Duties at the Sound. The sixth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a gentleman of the Inner Temple
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London
printed for David Steel, at the Navigation-Warehouse, No. 1, Union-Row, Little Tower-Hill
1796, M.DCC.XCV. [1795] [1796]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | Braces in imprint. - English Short Title Catalog, T127321. - Gentleman of the Inner Temple = David Steel. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The contents include "The appendix", which is the 'New and complete tables of the net duties payable, ..', with separate titlepage with imprint "printed for D. Steel" dated 1796, pagination and register. - The text in 'New and complete tables' is continuous despite the pagination |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (xiii,[3],372;12,9-100p.,plates) 8° |