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NAUTICAL ALMANACK ACT 1828

NAUTICAL ALMANACK ACT 1828 - LONG TITLE

An Act for repealing the Laws now in force relating to the
Discovery of the Longitude at Sea.{1}
[15th July 1828]
Preamble, which recites 1818 c.20, rep. by SLR 1890

S.1 rep. by SLR 1873

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.