Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on Transportation by Water in the United States ...: General conditions of transportation by water. 1909U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - Harbors |
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... tonnage duties ..... Wharfage charges distinguished from tonnage duties .. Tolls for the use of improvements to navigation .. Quarantine fees ......... .. Property taxes on vessels distinguished from tonnage duties .. 266 368 368 368 ...
... tonnage duties ..... Wharfage charges distinguished from tonnage duties .. Tolls for the use of improvements to navigation .. Quarantine fees ......... .. Property taxes on vessels distinguished from tonnage duties .. 266 368 368 368 ...
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... TONNAGE TAX ON VESSELS FROM FOREIGN PORTS . Sec . 11. Rates of tonnage tax ...... 399 Alien tonnage taxes .. Light money . 401 401 401 401 INDEXES . Index of navigable streams and canals .. 595 Index of navigation companies . 599 Table ...
... TONNAGE TAX ON VESSELS FROM FOREIGN PORTS . Sec . 11. Rates of tonnage tax ...... 399 Alien tonnage taxes .. Light money . 401 401 401 401 INDEXES . Index of navigable streams and canals .. 595 Index of navigation companies . 599 Table ...
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... tonnage of documented steam , sailing , and unrigged vessels of the United States in specified years , 1789-1907 . 122 11. Number and tonnage of documented vessels of the United States in 1907 , by classes and districts ...... 123 12 ...
... tonnage of documented steam , sailing , and unrigged vessels of the United States in specified years , 1789-1907 . 122 11. Number and tonnage of documented vessels of the United States in 1907 , by classes and districts ...... 123 12 ...
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... tonnage reached its maximum in 1860 , declined until 1898. Between 1896 and 1906 there was an increase of only 11 per cent in this latter tonnage . Steam has largely superseded sail power , and its proportionate tonnage is steadily ...
... tonnage reached its maximum in 1860 , declined until 1898. Between 1896 and 1906 there was an increase of only 11 per cent in this latter tonnage . Steam has largely superseded sail power , and its proportionate tonnage is steadily ...
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... tonnage , and almost half the total documented steam tonnage . On the coasts and the Great Lakes there has been a marked increase in the size of vessels , bringing about there a reduction in transportation costs . Corporations control ...
... tonnage , and almost half the total documented steam tonnage . On the coasts and the Great Lakes there has been a marked increase in the size of vessels , bringing about there a reduction in transportation costs . Corporations control ...
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agent amount Atlantic and Gulf Atlantic coast Baltimore barges barratry bill of lading boats Boston bulk carriers Canal capital stock cargo carried cent charter party Chesapeake City Class of vessel Coal coasts and rivers-Continued coastwise commerce consignee construction corporation CORPORATIONS-Con Creek Delaware erator Evansville feet FLEETS IN 1907-Continued foreign freight rates Gross Gulf coasts Harbor improvement interstate Island Lake Leased liability locks and dams Lumber miles Mississippi River Monongahela River Mouth Name of owner navigation companies Ohio Ohio River operating Orleans Pacific coast Packet Co packet lines Philadelphia Pittsburg points port portation Portland railroad routes sailing vessels San Francisco schooner ship shipper SIZES OF VESSELS steamers Steamship Co Steamship Company stockholders TABLE 21.-NAMES taxation thereof tion tonnage tons Total Towboat Towing trade traffic Transportation Company tributaries United VESSELS COMPOSING FLEETS voyage waterways wharf York
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Page 527 - America, shall exercise due diligence to make the said vessel in all respects seaworthy, and properly manned, equipped, and supplied; neither the vessel, her owner or owners, agent, or charterers shall become or be held responsible for damage or loss resulting from faults or errors in navigation, or in the management of said vessel...
Page 551 - Fire, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettisons, Letters of Mart and Countermart, Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints, and Detainments of all Kings, Princes, and People, of what Nation, Condition, or Quality soever...
Page 33 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 407 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 548 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 549 - Touching the adventures and perils which we the assurers are contented to bear and do take upon us in this voyage...
Page 560 - Damage by Jettison and Sacrifice for the Common Safety: Damage done to a ship and cargo, or either of them, by or in consequence of a sacrifice made for the common safety, and by water which goes down a ship's hatches opened or other opening made for the purpose of making a jettison for the common safety, shall be made good as general average.
Page 559 - Company shall have power to waive any provision or condition of this Policy except such as by the terms of this policy may be the subject of agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, and as to such provisions and conditions no officer, agent, or representative shall have such power or be deemed or held to have waived such provisions or conditions unless such waiver, if any, shall be written upon or attached hereto, nor shall any privilege or permission affecting the insurance under this Policy exist...
Page 552 - Corn, fish, salt, fruit, flour, and seed, are warranted free from- average, unless general, or the ship be stranded ; sugar, tobacco, hemp, flax, hides, and skins, are warranted free from average, under five pounds per cent.
Page 423 - ... no person shall be a director unless he shall be a stockholder, owning stock absolutely in his own right, and qualified to vote for directors at the election at which he shall be chosen...