Art. 137. A similar mode of admeasurement having been adopted by Great Britain, Denmark, Austro-Hungary, and the German Empire, and similar courtesy extended to vessels of the United States, it is directed that vessels of those countries whose registers indicate their tonnage under their present law, shall be taken in ports of the United States to be of the tonnage so expressed in their documents, with the addition of the amount of the deductions made under such law not authorized by the admeasurement law of the United States. Usually the gross tonnage may be ascertained from the register. In such cases the vessel will be entirely exempt from admeasurement. If the gross tonnage is not indicated by the register, it may be necessary to measure the spaces appropriated to crew and to engines below the upper deck whose tonnage has been deducted under their law; but admeasurement will be made only when and to such extent as absolutely necessary. Fees will be charged only for the services actually performed, and no more. 7 6 Built by FORM NO. 41. Tonnage measurement of Tonnage length, Number of decks, depth amidship, Number of sections, Number of masts, mon interval between sections, MEASUREMENTS AND PRODUCTS UNDER TON- AND TENTHS OF A FOOT. Tonnage depths... Common interval between breadths. Sec. 1. Sec. 2. Sec. 3. Sec. 4. Sec. 5. Sec. 6. This blank is extended in the same style with additional columns for secs. 7 to 17 inclusive. BETWEEN TONNAGE AND THIRD DECK. Length at middle of height, ft.; divided by equal to common interval between Height of space, breadths. ft. Multipliers. If there be a fourth deck, a similar record will be made of the measurement between it and the third deck. Total One-third common interval Product..... Height of space... Product .100) Tonnage of space.. Carried to "Recapitulation" [or, there being no collector of cus have surveyed and of- -, painted toms for the district of,] do certify that I admeasured a (ship or vessel) having the name of on her stern, according to law, and find that she measures — and hundredths of a ton; that her description is as herein stated; that her total tonnage is permanently marked upon her main beam. tons Products. RECAPITU Under ton- Between decks..... Poop... Total tonnage...... = PART SECOND. FOREIGN AND COASTING TRADE. CHAPTER I. FOREIGN TRADE BY SEA. Entry of vessels from foreign ports. Article 138. Vessels from foreign ports and places can make entry and unlade only at ports designated for those purposes according to law. Rev. Stats. sec. 2770. Art. 139. Dutiable merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture cannot be brought into the United States by sea in any vessel of less than thirty tons burden. Merchandise cannot be imported into the United States in undocumented vessels owned by citizens of the United States. Merchandise, except such as is of the growth, production, or manufacture of the country to which the vessel belongs, or such as is usually or necessarily first shipped therefrom, cannot be imported into the United States in a vessel belonging to citizens or subjects of a foreign nation imposing similar restrictions upon vessels of the United States. Violations of these provisions are punishable by forfeiture of both vessel and cargo. Rev. Stats. sec. 3095. Art. 140. Vessels of a foreign nation allowing American vessels laden with goods of the growth, produce or manufacture of any country other than the United States freely to enter and land such merchandise in any of the ports of such nation, whether such goods be carried directly from their place of origin or from ports of the United States, are not liable to the foregoing penalties on their bringing like goods into the United States, either |