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An Act for Continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons Making Certain Discoveries for Finding the Longitude at Sea, or Making other Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation and for Making Experiements Relating Thereto
An Act for Continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons Making Certain Discoveries for Finding the Longitude at Sea, or Making other Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation and for Making Experiements Relating Thereto

An Act for Continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons Making Certain Discoveries for Finding the Longitude at Sea, or Making other Useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation and for Making Experiements Relating Thereto

Date1781
Object number00003918
NameParliamentary paper
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 303 mm
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection
DescriptionParliamentary Act, passed in the parliament of 1780 (31 October) in the 23rd year of the reign of George III being 'An act for continuing the encouragement and reward of persons making certain discoveries for finding the longitude at sea, or making other useful discoveries and improvements in navigation and for making experiments relating thereto'. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, London, printers to the King in 1781, pages 1423 - 1426.
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