Royal African Company etc.- Volume of Acts of Parliament, including: An Act for the Application of a Sum of Money therein mentioned... for making Compensation and Satisfaction to the Royal African Company of England, for their Charter, Lands, Forts, Castles, Slaves, Military Stores, and all other Effects... and to vest the Lands, Forts, Castles, Slaves, and Military Stores..., 60pp (pp.771-830), Robert Baskett, 1752 bound with Gregorian Calendar.- Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use, 1750, 34pp, includes the new calendar, tables and rules, Robert Baskett, 1751 bound with America.- An Act for encouraging the making of Pott Ashes and Pearl Ashes in the British Plantations in America, 8pp., Thomas Baskett, 1751, bound with numerous other Acts of Parliament, with varying paginations, slightly browned, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners repaired, rebacked with the original spine laid down, folio, 1749-52.

⁂ Contains the complete act and two schedules, one being the assets of the Company broken down into individual places (Cape Coast Castle, Accra, James Island etc.); the second listing those to be compensated and the amounts in question. An important act by which the London Merchants no longer had control over the West African slave trade but shared it with businessmen in Liverpool and Bristol (the latter having the largest number of members).

Second mentioned this historic act brought in the calendar removing twelve days from the year 1752, and abandoning the Julian Calendar.