 | Mathew Carey - 1820 - 312 Seiten
...aforesaid. These extra charges were sufficient to drive from our ports, the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected...we had adopted. It seemed to operate like magic in favour of the ship owners of the United States. The diminution of the foreign tonnage employed in our... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 762 Seiten
...commerce of foreign nations, were sufficient to drive from our ports the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected by the system we had adopted in tavor of the ship-owners in the United States. The diminution of the foreign tonnage employ, ed... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1828 - 760 Seiten
...commerce of foreign nations, were sufficient to drive from our ports the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected by the system we had adopted in favor of the ship owners in the United States. The diminution of the foreign tonnage employed in... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1848 - 590 Seiten
...aforesaid. These extra charges were sufficient to drive from our ports the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected...we had adopted ; it seemed to operate like magic in favour of the shipowners in the United States. The diminution of the foreign 7. F 4 tonnage . tonnage... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1824 - 872 Seiten
...aforesaid. These extra charges were sufficient to drive from our ports the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected...trade was, with very few exceptions, rapid, regular, anil permanent." I will freely acknowledge, said Mr. B., that the wars in Europe, and our neutral condition,... | |
 | United States. Merchant marine commission. [from old catalog] - 1904 - 830 Seiten
...tons burden on entering our ports paid £20 tonnage duty, and for a cargo of £2,000 they paid £15 extra duty more than did the vessels of the United...very few exceptions, rapid, regular, and permanent." (In 1817 an act excluded foreign vessels from our coasting, lake, and river trades. ) SEC. 5. A rival's... | |
 | 1906 - 774 Seiten
...commerce of foreign nations, were sufficient to drive from our ports the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected by the system we had adopted in favor of the shipowners in the United States. The diminution of the foreign tonnage employed in... | |
 | Emory Richard Johnson - 1922 - 822 Seiten
...shipping. . . . Those extra charges were sufficient to drive from our ports, the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected...adopted; it seemed to operate like magic in favor of ship-owners in the United States."1 The European wars, even more than the policy of shipping protection,... | |
 | 532 Seiten
...commerce of foreign nations, were sufficient to drive from our ports the greatest proportion of the foreign tonnage. All foreign nations were affected by the system we had adopted in favor of the ship owners in the United States. The diminution of the foreign tonnage employed in... | |
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It seemed to operate like magic in favor of the shipowners in the United States. The diminution of the foreign tonnage employed in our trade was, with very few exceptions, rapid, regular, and permanent. 