MIT Museum

Major collection: Hart Nautical
Named collection: Allan Forbes Collection
Object type: document
Maker: Grierson, George
Place made: Ireland, Dublin, Dublin
Date made: 1806
Materials: ink; paper
Measurements: 11 in x 7 3/4 in
Nomenclature: historical
Classification: whales

Page from a book, with text describing an Act passed by George III, King of England, for "allowing, until the Signature of Preliminary Articles of Peace, Vessels employed in the Greenland Whale Fishery to complete their full Number of Men at certain Ports. 22d March 1806." The king's coat of arms is atop the page ("Dieu et Mon Droit").

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