Lot n° 494
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MARINE. Manuscript, Sur les voyages au long... - Lot 494 - Ader
MARINE. Manuscript, Sur les voyages au long cours, au grand et au petit cabotage, [Nantes] February 13, 1809; small folio of 10 pages, on column with marginal annotations.
Study on the grand and petit cabotage. In principle, short sea shipping applied to the European coasts and short sea shipping to the French coasts, with long-distance shipping referring only to transatlantic or transoceanic voyages. But when the French Empire reached its peak (it would include 130 departments in 1811), these notions had to be redefined. The present manuscript consists of two parts: the right-hand column contains an analysis of the legislative texts then in force (ordinance of 18 October 1740, article 377 of the Code of Commerce), followed by proposals relating to the large and small cabotage. The left-hand column contains the observations of the principal commissioner Giraud, maritime chief at the port and district of Nantes.
"Are considered long-distance voyages those which are made to the East Indies, to the Pacific Sea, to Canada, to Newfoundland, to Greenland and to the other coasts and islands of southern and northern America, to the Azores, to the Canaries, to Madeira and to all the other coasts and countries situated on the ocean beyond the Straits of Gibraltar and the Sund. [...] It is very necessary, from this moment, that the limits of the large and small coasting trade be determined in order to fix the administrators of the navy in the delivery of the roles of crew & the examiners for the admission of the masters & bosses"... Etc.
Another manuscript of the same study is attached (without the comments, 10 p. in-fol. in a book bound with a blue ribbon); and 3 documents on the same subject (the first one handwritten, the two others autographed): Extract from the Recueil general des lois et des arrets de la Cour de Cassation (1826, 2 p.), concerning a voyage from Rouen to St. Petersburg, which is not considered to be long-distance; circular on ocean voyages in the Baltic or the Mediterranean, 25 October 1827 (3 p.); Ordonnance du Roi sur le cabotage, 25 November 1827 (2 p. in-fol.).
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