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No. 17.-STATEMENT SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TONNAGE OF THE COASTING TRADE, AND THE

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a The decrease of tonnage in this year arises principally from the registered tonnage having been corrected by striking off all vessels the registers of which were granted prior to 1815, which were supposed by the collectors to have been lost at sea, captured, etc. Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury (American State Papers, Vol. II, p. 648).

UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIGN TRADE, THE FISHERIES, FROM 1789 TO 1898.

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No. 17.-STATEMENT SHOWING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE TONNAGE OF THE COASTING TRADE, AND THE FISHERIES,

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UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIGN TRADE, THE FROM 1789 TO 1898-Continued.

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TOTAL.

No. 18.-STATEMENT SHOWING CLASS, NUMBER, AND GROSS TONNAGE OF THE VESSELS BUILT IN EACH CUSTOMS DISTRICT OF THE UNITED STATES AND DOCUMENTED, JUNE 30, 1898.

[This table does not include yachts nor boats and lighters, decked and not masted, employed within the harbor of any town or city; nor canal boats and barges, without sails or internal motive power of their own, employed wholly upon canals or the internal waters of a State; nor barges or boats plying on rivers or lakes of the United States and not engaged in trade with contiguous foreign territory and not carrying passengers; nor boats under 5 tons net.]

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MAINE.

No.

Tons.

No.

Tons.

No. Tons.

No. Tons.

No.

Passamaquoddy.

Machias....

Castine....

1

24

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1

295

5

32

Bangor.

Belfast

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Gloucester

12

Boston and Charlestown..

22

Plymouth

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Barnstable

13

79

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CONNECTICUT.

9

8, 198

1

80

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2

32

3

20

16

3

37

8635

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14

8, 234

4

117

22

7,032

40

15, 383

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