American Shipping: Its History and Economic Conditions

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BRILL, 1913 - 144 páginas
 

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Página 87 - Vessels built within the United States and belonging wholly to citizens thereof; and vessels which may be captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, or which may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States...
Página 53 - An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and impost' and to equalize the duties on Prussian vessels and their cargoes," it is provided that upon satisfactory evidence being given to the President of the United States by the government of any foreign nation that no discriminating duties of tonnage or impost are imposed or levied in the ports of the...
Página 87 - United states or corporations organized and chartered under the laws of the United States or of any State thereof, the president and managing directors of which shall be citizens of the United States, and no others, may be registered as directed In this title.
Página 50 - No merchandise shall be transported by water under penalty of forfeiture thereof from one port of the United States to another port of the United States...
Página xix - In reporting this amendment, the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives...
Página 53 - In the ports of such 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...
Página 53 - President is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are and shall be suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of the...
Página 9 - Of all the American plantations, his Majesty has none so apt for the building of shipping as New England ; nor none comparably so qualified for the breeding of seamen, not only by reason of the natural industry of that people, but, principally, by reason of their Cod and Mackerel fisheries ; and, in my poor opinion, there is nothing more prejudicial, and, in prospect, more dangerous to any mother Kingdom, than the increase of shipping in her Colonies, Plantations, or Provinces.
Página 135 - ... fostering aid of Republican legislation, American shipping engaged in foreign trade in competition with the low cost of construction, low wages and heavy subsidies of foreign governments, has not for many years received from the government of the United States adequate encouragement of any kind. We therefore favor legislation which will encourage and build up the American merchant marine, and we cordially approve the legislation of the last Congress which created the Merchant Marine Commission...
Página 50 - But this section shall not be construed to prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the United States: Provided...

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