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Act of Parliament. An Act for Confirming Certain Provisional Orders Made by the Board of Trade Under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Relating to Falmouth, Irvine, Kinsale, Mousehole, St Leonards-on-Sea, and Ventnor. [9th August 1870.]
1870,
30pp, engraved title, in protective wrapper. SBS. Extracted Act. CHAP. clviii
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Act of Parliament. An Act to Amend an Act, Passed in the Fiftieth Year of His Late Majesty, for Directing that Accounts of Increase and Diminution of Public Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances shall be Annually Laid before Parliament, and for Regulating and Controlling the Granting and Paying Such Salaries, Pensions, and Allowances. [5th August 1822.]
1822,
14pp, engraved title, in protective wrapper. SBS: Extracted Act. CAP. CXIII.
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Act of Parliament. An Act to Continue, Until the Twenty-Fifth Day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fourteen, and Amend an Act, Made in the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Year of His Present Majesty, for the More Effectual Prevention of Depredations on the River Thames and its Vicinity; and to Amend an Act, Made in the Second Year of His Present Majesty, to Prevent the Committing of Thefts and Frauds by Persons Navigating Bum-Boats, and Other Boats, Upon the River Thames. [25th March 1807].
1807,
6pp, engraved title, in protective wrapper. AJS: Extracted Act. CAP. XXVII.
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Act of Parliament. An Act to Empower the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London to Set the Price upon all Coals, Commonly Called Sea Coals, Imported into the Port of London from Newcastle and the Ports Adjacent Thereunto, for the Space of One Year; and to Oblige, for the Term therin Mentioned, Fitters and Others Vending and Loading Ships with Sea Caols at Newcastle amd the Ports Adjacent Thereunto, to Deliver Such Coals to any Masters of Ships Applying for the Same; and for Further Obliging Buyers and Sellers of Sea Coals at Billingsgate or Other Place of Sale within the Bills of Mortality, to Sign their Contracts for Coals; and for the Admeasurement of all Carriages whatsoever used in Loading Ships with Coals in the Port of Newcastle and Members Thereunto Belonging. [1738].
1738,
8pp, engraved title, in protective wrapper.
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Anon. The Royal Charter of Confirmation Granted by His Most Excellent Majesty, King James II. To the Trinity-House, of Deptford-Strond; For the Government and Increase of the Navigation of England, and the Relief of Poor Mariners, their Widows and Orphans, etc.
1825,
203pp, with 2pp index, marbled endpapers, original full black goat, gilt devices and tooling on front and rear boards, an attractive copy. Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, page 889: Originally a guild of 'ship-men and mariners' of England set up by Henry VIII in 1517, 'to the praise and honour of the most glorious and indvidable Trinity..in the parish church of Deptford-Strond in our county of Kent'. Its original purpose was to do all things necessary for the 'relief, increase and augmentation of the shipping of this our realm of England'. Since then the Corporation of Trinity House has been the body responsible in England for the erection and maintenance of lighthouses, lightships, buoys, and other aids to navigation within the waters surrounding English shores, and is also the licensing authority for pilots. AJS: This edition with a list of thirty-one Elder Brethren appointed by the Charter of King James the Second.
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Anon. Visit of the French Fleet, August, 1905, List of Ships of the Combined Fleets, Programme of Events.
1905,
(viii), 9pp, colour title page, 7 illus in text, large folding coloured chart printed on silk (in pocket), aeg, silk endpapers with gilt edging, original full blue calf, highly decorated with gilt devices, an attractive copy. AJS: The Entente Cordiale - The French fleet (battleships and cruisers), visited England for a joint review with the British fleet in the Solent on 7th to 9th of August 1905. The members of both Houses of Parliament invited the French Admirals and Officers to a luncheon in Westminster Hall on Saturday, August 12th.
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