The committee to whom the several ordinances relating to captures on water, were committed, report the following ordinance : In pursuance of the power vested in Congress by the Articles of Confederation ... it becomes necessary that a supreme court of appeals, in all cases of captures, should be constituted and established, with full power to controul and correct the proceedings of all inferior courts of admiralty in the United States in such cases ...
Summary
The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia from July 2, 1778 to June 21, 1783.
Probably printed March 1782. "March 30, 1782. The committee ... to whom were referred an ordinance for establishing a court of appeals ... for regulating the courts of admiralty, delivered in the draft of an ordinance for establishing a court of appeals, which was read a first time ..."--Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 22, p. 153-154.
Not in Evans, Bristol, or Shipton & Mooney.
LC copy annotated on verso: Virginia.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Formerly Continental Congress broadside no. 246. qr01 03-05-90
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Date
01/01/1782
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United States. Continental Congress.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
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Library of Congress
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