Statutes of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND Passed in the 5th Year of GEORGE IV, 1824 (Vol.IX Part II)
PlacePub
London
Publisher
G.Eyre & A.Strahan, Law Printers to H.M.
Date
1824
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Description
Thick small folio, hardback original blue sugar-paper covered boards leather spine (rubbed & bit scuffed but sound) paginated continuously with "Part I"; xiii-(xxvi) 585-996pgs+Index including A Table of all Statutes. Printed sidenotes to outer margins. Internally clean, crisp & tight. V.G. *115 Public/General/National Statutes printed in full; plus 160 Local & Personal Acts giving title and brief contents only; plus 53 Private Acts (listed only) Includes "An Act for the more effectual Suppression of the AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE" Chapt.XVII 31 March 1824, offenders to "..be deemed and adjudged guilty of Piracy, Felony and Robbery, and .. shall suffer Death without benefit of Clergy, and loss of Lands, Goods and Chattels.." AND FURTHER, Chapt.CXIII of 24 June 1824, an extensive enactment (41pgs) which made detailed provision for the treatment of slaves from captured slave-ships, in foreign & British ports or colonies, the "valuation" of slaves and a "bounty" to be paid upon seizure of slavers, and set out a number of International Treaties with Portugal, Spain & The Netherlands for regulating the slave trade.
Booknumber
V59422
Price
Price: GBP 50.00 or USD 62.00
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