American Marine: The Shipping Question in History and PoliticsHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 - 479 Seiten |
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... paid to American vessels , and gives us a supremacy of the seas of inestimable value in case of foreign war . " Our navy at the commencement of the late war consisted of less than 100 vessels , of about 150,000 tons , and a force of ...
... paid to American vessels , and gives us a supremacy of the seas of inestimable value in case of foreign war . " Our navy at the commencement of the late war consisted of less than 100 vessels , of about 150,000 tons , and a force of ...
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... paid Russia for her property - set up a claim , founded on our naval disability , to every seal that they can catch off the rocks , where they must breed , or become extinct . As we are unprepared to fight , we must therefore ...
... paid Russia for her property - set up a claim , founded on our naval disability , to every seal that they can catch off the rocks , where they must breed , or become extinct . As we are unprepared to fight , we must therefore ...
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... paid for by its exports . If its exports of goods fall short , it must make up the deficiency by its export of gold and silver . If these are continuously ex- ported , the consequent scarcity of gold and silver money will produce ...
... paid for by its exports . If its exports of goods fall short , it must make up the deficiency by its export of gold and silver . If these are continuously ex- ported , the consequent scarcity of gold and silver money will produce ...
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... paid ? Is it to agriculture we should apply , instead of to shipbuilding and navigation , for the means of paying our foreign freights ? Have we not too many farm- ers now , and too few shipwrights , engineers , and seamen ? British ...
... paid ? Is it to agriculture we should apply , instead of to shipbuilding and navigation , for the means of paying our foreign freights ? Have we not too many farm- ers now , and too few shipwrights , engineers , and seamen ? British ...
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... paid , and ruin ruled on every hand . For six years free trade and free ships carried full sail . It was realized then , as it may be again before long , that an adverse balance of trade , whether for merchandise or freightage , is ...
... paid , and ruin ruled on every hand . For six years free trade and free ships carried full sail . It was realized then , as it may be again before long , that an adverse balance of trade , whether for merchandise or freightage , is ...
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Ameri American Carriage American ships American vessels American-built amount annually average bounty Britain British iron British ships British steamers British wood British-built building built Bureau of Navigation cargoes carried cent centum CHAPTER cheap coast companies Congress cost deck depth Dollars employment England Europe export carriage favor flag fleets foreign nations foreign shipping foreign trade foreign vessels free trade free-ship freeboard freight freightage French gain German gross registered tonnage hulls imports increase iron sail iron ships Iron steamers less lines Liverpool Lloyd's Register loading loss marine maritime ment merchandise merchants naval navy Norwegian wood ocean owners paid period premium proportion protection rates reciprocity reduced rules sailing ships sailing vessels seamen Secretary shipbuilding shipowners shipping interest steam vessels steamships subsidy superiority tariff tariff of 1828 tion tons transportation Treasury underwriters United United Kingdom voyage wood steam wooden ships
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Seite 318 - Provided, That the President of the United States shall suspend the collection of so much of the duty herein imposed on vessels entered from any foreign port as may be in excess of the tonnage and lighthouse dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes imposed in said port on American vessels by the Government of the foreign country in which such port is situated...
Seite 115 - ... nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country...
Seite 104 - ... the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nations, so far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have been abolished.
Seite 104 - Be it enacted, . . . that so much of the several acts imposing duties on the tonnage of ships and vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States, as imposes a discriminating duty of tonnage, between foreign vessels and vessels of the United States...
Seite 110 - That no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States, in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a subject of any foreign power...
Seite 28 - From the close of the war of the Revolution, there came on a period of depression and distress, on the Atlantic coast, such as the people had hardly felt during the sharpest crisis of the war itself.
Seite 459 - States as cruisers or transports upon payment to the owners of the fair actual value of the same at the time of the taking, and if there shall be a disagreement as to the fair actual value at the time of taking between the United States and the owners...
Seite 407 - That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act.
Seite 115 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Seite 295 - The power to regulate that commerce, as well as commerce with foreign nations, vested in Congress, is the power to prescribe the rules by which it shall be governed, that is, the conditions upon which it shall be conducted ; to determine when it shall be free and when subject to duties or other exactions.