TABLE 1.-Maximum, minimum, and ordinary wages (expressed in dollars and cents) paid on British vessels in 1895. TABLE 2.-Maximum, minimum, and ordinary wages (expressed in dollars and cents) paid on British steam vessels in 1895. TABLE 3.-Average monthly wages (expressed in dollars and cents) paid to able seamen on British vessels. Port. Steamships. Sailing vessels. I.-Bound to North America. 1870. 1880. 1890. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1870. 1880. 1890. 1893. 1894. 1895. Bristol.. Glasgow.. Liverpool London........ 15.79 $17.01 $24.30 $18. 22 $18. 22 $17.01 $13.36 $13.36 $17.01 $14.58 $14.58 $14.58 $19.44 17.01 22.47 19.44 19.44 19.44 17.01 15.79 17.73 13.36 13.36 13.36 19.44 17.01 19.44 17.01 21.87 19.44 19.44 19.44 15.79 12.15 17.01 13.36 13.36 13.36 Newcastle and Shields.. 17.01 17.01 21.87 19.44 19.44 19.44 14.58 13.36 18.22 14.58 14.58 14.58 18.47 17.18 24.55 19. 19 19.64 19.44 15.90 14.12 17.53 13.97 13.85 13.85 London..... 17.01 14.58 13.36 13.36 15.79 16.40 14.58 15.79 19.44 17.01 17.01 17.01 12.15 12.15 17.01 14.58 13.36 Newcastle and Shields.. 17.01 17.01 21.87 18.22 23.08 19.44 19.44 13.97 13.36 17.01 17.01 Average.. 15.96 16.09 21.00 18.05 17.45 17.82 13.26 13. 18 17.41 15.06 14.70 13.36 15.79 13.36 21.28 17.01 17.01 17.01 13.36 12.15 17.01 13.36 13.36 13.36 14.58 13.36 19.44 17.01 17.01 17.01 12.15 12. 15 14.58 13.36 12.15 13.36 15.18 14.82 20.96 17.98 18.02 17.60 12.90 12.49 16.52 13.85 13.71 13.67 14.58 15.79 21.87 13.36 12.15 17.01 14.58 14.58 13.36 12.15 17.01 14.58 14.58 14.58 12.15 12.15 14.58 14.58 13.36 13.36 17.01 19.44 17.01 21.87 14.57 15.17 20.45 14.58 16. 71 16. 40 13.45 12.66 16.52 14.58 13.97 13.36 15.79 14.58 20.65 15.79 15.79 15.79 13.36 12.15 17.01 13.36 13.36 13.36 14.58 14.58 19.44 17.01 17.01 17.01 12.15 12.15 17.01 13.36 13.36 13.36 Newcastle and Shields... 14.58 17.01 21.87 19.44 19.44 17.01 12.15 12.15 17.01 14.58 14.58 14.58 14.82 15.38 20.85 17.31 17.31 17.61 12.55 12.35 16.52 13.66 13.66 13.36 18.22 14.58 21.87 15.79 13.36 17.01 12.15 17.01 14.58 15.79 13.36 10.93 17.01 13.36 13.36 13.36 13.36 19.44 15.79 15.79 15.79 12. 15 12.15 14.58 13.36 13.36 13.36 12.15 14.58 19.44 17.01 17.01 17.01 12.15 12.15 17.01 13.36 13.36 13.36 23.08 13.36 12.75 15.79 21.14 17.25 17.41 17.36 12.39 12.14 16.40 13.66 13.60 13.36 TABLE 4.—Average monthly wages (expressed in dollars and cents) of mates, petty officers, engineers, and firemen on British vessels in the foreign trade. 1870. 1880. 1890. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1870. 1880. 1890. 1893. 1894. 1895. APPENDIX D. TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS. Following are articles in various treaties now in force between the United States and foreign nations providing for reciprocity in the treatment of American and foreign vessels and their cargoes in American ports and in foreign ports, together with the date and place of ratification, and the signers representing the respective Governments. These articles of the various treaties are included in this report as their abrogation or modification will be involved in the event of the passage of a bill imposing discriminating duties on the cargoes of foreign vessels entering the ports of the United States. It is probable that it will be necessary, in the event of the passage of this bill, to recast many other articles in our treaties in addition to those here included and in some instances to prepare entirely new treaties. This objection to the passage of the discriminating-duties bill has not been fully presented in the report of this Bureau, as it pertains to the Department of State. At the conclusion of the treaties is reproduced the twelfth article of the Jay treaty of 1795, by which the commercial independence of the United States was recognized by Great Britain. This article is of historical interest merely, as it has been superseded by the more recent treaties with Great Britain herein included. [Treaty concluded July 27, 1853; ratifications exchanged at Parana December 20, 1854; proclaimed April 9, 1855.] ARTICLE V. No higher or other duties or charges, on account of tonnage, light or harbor dues, pilotage, salvage in case of average or shipwreck, or any other local charges, shall be imposed in the ports of the two contracting parties on the vessels of the other, than those payable in the same ports on its own vessels. ARTICLE VI. The same duties shall be paid, and the same drawbacks and bounties allowed, upon the importation or exportation of any article into or from the territories of the United States, or into or from the territories of the Argentine Confederation, whether such importation or exportation be made in vessels of the United States or in vessels of the Argentine Confederation. ARTICLE VII. The contracting parties agree to consider and treat as vessels of the United States and of the Argentine Confederation all those which, being furnished by the competent authority with a regular passport or sea letter, shall, under the then existing laws and regulations of either of the two Governments, be recognized fully and bona fide as national vessels by that country to which they respectively belong. Done at San José on the twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. ROBERT C. SCHENCK. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. [Treaty concluded August 27, 1829; ratifications exchanged at Washington February 10, 1831; proclaimed February 10, 1831.] ARTICLE II. Austrian vessels arriving, either laden or in ballast, in the ports of the United States of America, and, reciprocally, vessels of the United States arriving, either laden or in ballast, in the ports of the dominions of Austria, shall be treated on their entrance, during their stay, and at their departure, upon the same footing |