The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year ...

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order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1820
 

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Seite ix - Act : And whereas by another Act • passed in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled " 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, and for adding a Commissioner to execute the several Acts for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea...
Seite xix - ... to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his majesty's Courts of record...
Seite xix - Pounds, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster...
Seite 6 - ... COMMISSIONERS appointed by the Act of the Fiftyeighth Year of His late Majesty, King George the Third, intituled, "An Act for more effectually discovering the Longitude at Sea; and encouraging Attempts to find a Northern Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the Northern Pole.
Seite xix - Tables, he shall forfeit for every such Demand or Receipt the Sum of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered by Action of Debt in any...
Seite 181 - II. and when applied according to its Title to the apparent Time, or that deduced immediately from the Sun, gives the mean or equated Time, whence the Error of a Clock or Watch may be found, and, if required, it may be corrected. If it...
Seite 181 - Rising; which, though a less accurate Method than the former of obtaining the Time, may yet be useful when that cannot be had. For any of...
Seite xix - ... therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Time being, to cause such Nautical Almanacks, or other useful Table or Tables, which he or they shall from time to time judge necessary and useful in order to facilitate the Method of discovering the Longitude at Sea, to be constructed, printed, published, and vended...
Seite ix - Act, as shall be thought expedient, and, subject as aforesaid, that the said recited Acts shall be and the same are hereby repealed...

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