The ship-master's assistant and owner's manual [electronic resource] : Containing complete information, as well to merchants, masters of ships, and persons employed in the merchant service, as to officers and others in the Royal Navy, relative to the mercantile and maritime laws and customs. In the course of which, the following subjects are particularly elucidated: I. Disbursements, & other ship-accounts. 2. Instructions for the officers in the Royal Navy. 3. Tables useful in martime affairs. 4. Exchanges. 5. Real and imaginary monies of the world. 6. Owners. 7. Masters. 8. Seamen and seamen's wages. 9. Impressing. 10. Articles of regulation for the Royal Navy. 11. Freight, charter-parties, & demurrage. 12. Ballast. 13. Pilots and pilotage. 14. Marine insurances. 15. Averages. 16. Bottomry and respondentia 17. Privateers. 18. Bills of exchange. 19. Quarantine. 20. Navigation-acts. 21. Smuggling-acts. 22. Manifest-act. 23. Fisheries in the Greenland Sea and Davis's streights. 24. Southern whale-fishery. 25. British fisheries. 26. Newfoundland fisheries. 27. Oyster-fishers. 28. Regulation of seamen in the coasting-trade. 29. Slave-trade. 30. Act for consolidation of the duties. 31. Duties in the Unites States of America. 32. Duties at the sound. The fourth edition, considerably improved and enlarged. The whole compiled from undoubted authority, and the acts of Parliament faithfully abridged, by a Gentlemam of the Inner Temple.