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NAUTICAL ALMANACK ACT 1828 - SECT 2

Lord high admiral may authorize the publication of the Nautical Almanack.

2. And whereas the publication of the Nautical Almanack, constructed by proper
persons, for the finding of the longitude at sea, is of great importance to
the safety of ships and persons, and highly conducive to the general interests
of commerce and navigation: 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, free of all stamp duty whatever, in the same manner as
the commissioners under the said Act of the fifty-eighth year of his late
Majesty's reign might or could do; and that every person who, without the
special licence and authority of the lord high admiral or commissioners for
executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid for the time being,...,
shall print, publish, or vend, or cause to be printed, published, or vended,
any such almanack or almanacks, or other table or tables, shall, for every
copy of such almanack or table so printed, published, or vended, forfeit and
pay the sum of twenty pounds, to be recovered, ..., by any person to be
authorized for that purpose by the lord high admiral or commissioners for
executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid, ... by action... in any
of His Majesty's courts of record at Westminster; and that the proceeds of the
said penalty, when recovered, shall be paid and applied to the use of the
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.

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