Port Series, Issue 19U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - Harbors |
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Agent Anchorage Basin apply asphalt ballast barges bridge cargo carload cents per 100 coal coastwise shipments commodities connections Cotton creosote crossties demurrage depth discharging docks dredged east pier equipped Escatawpa River facilities feet wide fertilizer materials freight Gulf & Ship Gulfport harbor master harbor of Pascagoula Horn Island import L. N. Dantzler Lumber loading located Louisville & Nashville mean low water miles Miscellaneous Miss Mississippi Export Railroad Mississippi Sound Mississippi Sound Channel Mobile Moss Point move movement municipal wharf Nashville R. R. Nashville Railroad operated Orleans Pascagoula River Pensacola Petit Bois Islands piles pilotage plant port of Gulfport pounds quarantine rail rates repairs Ship Island Pass Ship Island R. R. Ship Island Railroad ship side short tons switching charge switching limits tank Tariff authority Tenn terminal timber Towing tracks traffic transit shed Unlighted unloading vessels warehouse water front wharfage wharves width
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Page 27 - ... imposed at each entry on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or Newfoundland; and a duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed...
Page 63 - The draw shall be opened with the least possible delay upon receiving the prescribed signal: Provided, That the drawspan shall not be opened when a train is approaching so closely that it cannot safely be stopped before reaching the bridge, or when a passenger or mail train is approaching within sight or hearing of the operator of the drawspan.
Page 63 - If the weather conditions are good and sound signals can be heard when a vessel approaches a drawbridge and desires to pass through the draw...
Page 11 - Customs supervision of outbound cargo. — Customs officers are required to supervise the lading of merchandise outward bound on which drawback is payable, or merchandise withdrawn from bonded warehouse for exportation or landed for transshipment. Customs jurisdiction over coastwise traffic. — The customs entry of a vessel coastwise consists of delivering to the collector, within 24 hours after arrival, a sworn manifest of cargo, and obtaining from him a permit to discharge. On clearance of a vessel...
Page 90 - ... and to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page 13 - ... lists containing the names of all aliens employed on such vessel, stating the positions they respectively hold in the ship's company, when and where they were respectively shipped or engaged, and specifying those to be paid off and discharged in the port of arrival; or lists containing so much of such information as the...
Page 90 - Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Resident Member of the Board. [First endorsement] OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, Washington, DC, July 15, 194-1.
Page 87 - No. 13. Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, and San Luis Obispo, Calif.: Part 1, Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif, (revised 1930)._ . 60 Part 2, San Diego and San Luis Obispo, Calif, (revised 1930) _ . 45 No.
Page 9 - ... delivery may be issued prior to the arrival of the importing vessel upon application by the importer and the deposit with the collector of a sum equal to double the estimated duties, the collector giving early notice to the appraiser, who will promptly detail an officer to examine and appraise the merchandise. Warehouses. — Warehouses for the appraisal and storage of bonded merchandise shall be used exclusively for that purpose and for the storage of unclaimed goods under Government control,...