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010 $a 90898008
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aCont Cong no. 9b
110 1 $aUnited States.$bContinental Congress.
245 10 $aIn Congress, Wednesday. April 3, 1776 :$bInstructions to the commanders of private ships or vessels of war, which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal, authorising them to make captures of British vessels and cargoes.
260 $a[Philadelphia? :$bs.n.,$cbetween 1777 and 1779]
300 $a1 sheet ([1] p.) ;$c31 x 20 cm.
500 $aSigned: By Congress, [blank] president.
500 $a"This form was reprinted, and continued to be in use ... certainly as late as 1780; the later editions being signed in ms. by the president of Congress"--Evans 15137.
500 $aImprint date based on terms of the presidents of Congress who signed extant copies: NYPL copy signed by Henry Laurens (president, Nov. 1777-Dec. 1778); LC and Rhode Island Historical Society copies signed by John Jay (president, Dec. 1778-Sept. 1779).
500 $aNot in Evans or Bristol.
500 $aThe third and fourth lines end: vessels, reprisal. In other editions the third and fourth lines end: vessels, them; shall, vessels; war, make.
510 4 $aJournals of the Continental Congress,$c104
500 $aLC copy signed in ms.: John Jay.$5DLC
530 $aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
650 0 $aPrivateering$zUnited States.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xPrizes, etc.
710 2 $aContinental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC
752 $aUnited States$bPennsylvania$dPhiladelphia.
856 41 $dbdsdcc$f009b1$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.009b1$qs