Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of the TreasuryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 |
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... tons , or over half the apparent decrease in tonnage . The Government purchased for the use of the Army and the Navy American merchant vessels aggregating 62,000 tons , all or nearly all of which have merely changed owners and are still ...
... tons , or over half the apparent decrease in tonnage . The Government purchased for the use of the Army and the Navy American merchant vessels aggregating 62,000 tons , all or nearly all of which have merely changed owners and are still ...
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... tons - a ' decrease of 94 vessels and 68,000 tons during the twelvemonth . The decrease in sailing vessels was 159 , of 103,000 tons , made good however by additions of steam vessels of greater efficiency as car- riers . The bare ...
... tons - a ' decrease of 94 vessels and 68,000 tons during the twelvemonth . The decrease in sailing vessels was 159 , of 103,000 tons , made good however by additions of steam vessels of greater efficiency as car- riers . The bare ...
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... tons . Of the 62,000 tons of domestic merchant shipping purchased by the Government to meet the tempo- rary exigencies of war , a considerable proportion will doubtless soon return to commercial pursuits . Of the foreign shipping ...
... tons . Of the 62,000 tons of domestic merchant shipping purchased by the Government to meet the tempo- rary exigencies of war , a considerable proportion will doubtless soon return to commercial pursuits . Of the foreign shipping ...
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... tons American and 36,325,975 tons foreign vessels . These figures must be subjected to some analysis , if the elements of our strength and weakness as a maritime nation are to be accurately stated . Included in the figures above are the ...
... tons American and 36,325,975 tons foreign vessels . These figures must be subjected to some analysis , if the elements of our strength and weakness as a maritime nation are to be accurately stated . Included in the figures above are the ...
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... tons and foreign tonnage amounting to 27,419,026 tons entered and cleared at ports of the United States during the fiscal year 1897. The share of our shipping in this great trade between the continents and the United States is not only ...
... tons and foreign tonnage amounting to 27,419,026 tons entered and cleared at ports of the United States during the fiscal year 1897. The share of our shipping in this great trade between the continents and the United States is not only ...
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Page 232 - In the same manner there shall be perfect equality of treatment in regard to exportation, so that the same export duties shall be paid, and the same bounties...
Page 83 - If any person shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any seaman or other person seeking employment, as seaman, or from any person on his behalf, any remuneration whatever for providing him with employment, he shall for every such offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be imprisoned not more than six months or fined not more than $500.
Page 79 - For any act of smuggling of which he is convicted, and whereby loss or damage is occasioned to the master or owner, he shall be liable to pay...
Page 236 - Prussian ports in national vessels, may also be exported therefrom in vessels of the United States of America, without paying other or higher duties or charges of whatever kind or denomination, levied in the name or to the profit of the Government, the local authorities, or of any private establishments whatsoever, than if the same merchandise or produce had been exported in Prussian vessels.
Page 238 - ... exportation, of any articles to the United States, or to his Britannic majesty's territories in Europe, respectively, than such as are payable on the exportation of the like articles to any other foreign country...
Page 218 - ... nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost...
Page 283 - Mortgage or pledge, of lands, estate, or property, real or personal, heritable, or movable, whatsoever, where the same shall be made as a security for the payment of any definite and certain sum of money, lent at the time or previously due and owing or forborne to be paid, being payable...
Page 76 - ... unfit for use, the seaman shall receive, by way of compensation for such reduction or bad quality, according to the time of its continuance, the following sums, to be paid to him in addition to and to be recoverable as wages : First. If his allowance is reduced by any quantity not exceeding one-third of the quantity specified...
Page 80 - In any subsequent legal proceedings the entries hereinbefore required shall, if practicable, be produced or proved...
Page 241 - Russia; and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the Empire of Russia, of any article, the produce or manufacture of the United States, than are, or shall be, payable on the like article, being the produce or manufacture of any other foreign country.