Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of the Treasury

Foreign subsidies to Pacific lines..

Acquisition of the Philippines

Revision of the ocean mail act of 1891

Foreign mileage rates to Asia..

Spanish mail contracts..

West Indian competition..

Transportation of troops and supplies.

Extension of the act admitting the New York and Paris

Needs of the Pacific

Precedents of the year.

German policy

Shipping bounties

Discriminating duties.

Export bounties

Table of foreign bounty systems

Construction bounties

Netherlands..

Denmark...

Repeal proposed

Administrative details

British yachts

Belgium..

Trinidad, West Indies

Porto Rico

War contributions imposed on Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines.

Mexico.

Legislation concerning seamen.

Imprisonment for desertion.

Allotments of wages..

Seaworthiness of vessels

Scale of provisions.

Regulation of sailing vessels and their officers.

Boarding of vessels

A. Legislation...

1. Omnibus bill (S. 95) concerning seamen, with present laws on

the subject

2. License of masters and mates of sail vessels over 700 tons (S. 622) –

3. Boarding of vessels.

4. Naturalization of seamen on merchant vessels

5. Pilotage discriminations against sail vessels (S. 1030)

6. Fees for certificates of title (S. 946)

APPENDIXES.

C. Wages of seamen.

6. Allotments to seamen on foreign vessels in the United States.

7. Merchant seamen in the Navy..

8. Methods of shipment, shipping masters, and sailors' boarding

houses.

D. World's merchant marine....

1. Average rates of monthly wages paid in the American merchant

marine for the year ended June 30, 1898..

2. Average rates of monthly wages paid on British vessels for
1897-98

1. Report of British Board of Trade.

2. Report of Bureau Veritas

3. Report of Lloyd's Register

4. Motive power and material of construction of the world's merchant

navies (Lloyd's)..

5. Tonnage tables for a period of years, with potential tonnage

(Bureau Veritas).

6. Vessels of over 100 tons built during each of the last seven years

(Lloyd's)..

7. Summary of the world's shipbuilding for 1897 (Lloyd's)

8. Construction in progress September 30, 1898 (Lloyd's).

9. Vessels lost or broken up during 1897 (Lloyd's).

United States:

E. Government aid to shipping...

2. Extracts from report of British postmaster-general, 1897 and 1898_

3. British ocean-mail payments for 1897–98.-

4. British naval reserve estimates, 1897-1899-

5. British Admiralty subventions, 1898.

6. Genesis of British steamship subsidies.

7. New British West Indian steamship subsidies.

Germany:

8. Report on German mail steamship subsidies, 1898.

France:

9. French construction and navigation bounty law of 1893.

10. French bounty report, 1893..

E. Italy:

11. Construction and navigation bounty law of 1896..

Japan:

12. Construction and navigation bounty law of 1896..

Spain:

13. Colonial contract law of 1887_

14. Spanish subsidies for 1895 .

Austria-Hungary:

15. Bounty act of 1894....

Netherlands:

16. Postal mail subsidies, 1895..

Russia:

17. Steamship subsidies, 1895

Sweden and Norway:

18. Steamship subsidies for 1895.

Denmark:

19. Steamship subsidies for 1895.

Commerce and naval expenditures:

20. British report concerning the principal nations ...

F. Fisheries.

1. Statistics and statement of United States Fish Commissioner.

2. Canadian fishing bounties and statistics_

3. Japanese deep-sea fishing bounty act....

4. German sea fisheries

G. Tonnage taxes..

1. Law and collections for past ten years..

2. Collections for fiscal year ended June 30, 1898-

3. Entries of American and foreign vessels at seaports since 1888.

4. Maritime expenditures of the United States for ten years.

5. Tonnage taxes as war contributions at ports of Cuba, Porto Rico,

and the Philippines.

6. Mexican vessels..

H. Foreign tonnage-tax laws and rates.

1. British light dues.

2. Local British light dues

3. British light dues, receipts, and expenditures -

4. British light dues, income and outgo (Lloyd's Gazette)

5. New British light-dues act

6. French tonnage taxes

7. German tonnage and light dues

8. Hamburg law and rates.

9. Bremen law and rates.

10. Italian tonnage-tax law

11. New Mexican tonnage-tax law

12. Trinidad tonnage-tax law.

I. Articles in treaties of the United States with foreign nations establishing

reciprocity in shipping and concerning discriminating duties

and export bounties

Argentine Confederation.

Hanseatic Republics (Germany)

I. Articles in treaties of the United States, etc.-Continued.

Japan

Liberia

Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Germany)

K. Special lists of vessels.

1. American merchant vessels sold to the Government.

2. Vessels documented by act of Congress...

3. Vessels directed by act of Congress to be documented.

4. Foreign steamships bought by the Navy Department_

5. Foreign steamships bought by the War Department.

6. Spanish vessels condemned as prize.

7. List of Hawaiian vessels..

8. Spanish seagoing vessels documented at Manila.

9. Steamships under foreign flags owned by Americans.

10. Registered foreign-built steamships

11. Repaired wrecks.

12. Vessels sold to foreigners.

M. Legal decisions and opinions.

1. Decision in the case of the J. D. Peters concerning allotment of

wages

2. Opinion of the Attorney-General concerning the discharge and

relief of seamen

3. Opinion of Attorney-General concerning our commercial and

maritime relations with Hawaii.

4. Hawaiian registers since annexation

N. Boarding of vessels.

O. Miscellaneous..

1. Exports and imports in American and foreign vessels from 1821

(Bureau of Statistics) -

2. Entries and clearances of the same from 1821 (Bureau of

Statistics)

3. Report of the United States consul-general at Honolulu on

Hawaiian navigation

4. Antwerp international conference on unification of international

law

5. World's coal production.

P. War taxes on shipping (act of June 13, 1898).

Papers, exempt and taxable..

STATISTICAL TABLES.

1. Registered, enrolled, and licensed vessels, by States and customs districts,

on June 30, 1898..

2. Summary of Table 1, by States..

3. Registered, enrolled, and licensed steam vessels, by States and customs

districts, on June 30, 1898.

4. Registered, enrolled, and licensed iron and steel vessels, by customs

districts and States, on June 30, 1898....

5. Registered, enrolled, and licensed iron and steel steam vessels, by customs

districts and States, on June 30, 1898........

6. Iron and steel sail and steam vessels and barges, by customs districts

and States, on June 30, 1898.

7. Total registered, enrolled, and licensed sail vessels (wood and iron or

steel) and steam vessels (wood and iron or steel) on June 30, 1898...

8. Balance sheet, showing increase and decrease of registered, enrolled,

and licensed vessels for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898...

9. Balance sheet, showing rig of increase and decrease of all vessels for the

fiscal year ended June 30, 1898

10. Registered, enrolled, and licensed sail and steam vessels, by years, from
1789

10a. Documented canal boats and barges, by years, from 1868..

106. Number and gross tonnage of sail vessels, steam vessels, barges, and

canal boats on the northern lakes from 1868

11. Sail and steam vessels, canal boats, and barges, by customs districts and

States, on June 30, 1898.

12. Summary of Table 11, by States..

13. Classification of sail and steam vessels, by size, by customs districts, and

States, on June 30, 1898-

14. Vessels in cod and mackerel fisheries on June 30, 1898.

15. Vessels in whale fisheries on June 30, 1898-

16. Employment of vessels on June 30, 1898..

17. Vessels in foreign, coasting, and fishing trades, by years, from 1789.

18. Annual construction: Sail and steam vessels, canal boats, and barges, by

customs districts and States, built in year ended June 30, 1898...

19. Summary of Table 18, by States....

20. Rig of sailing vessels, by customs districts and States, built in year

ended June 30, 1898-

21. Summary of Table 20.

22. River, lake, and ocean steamers, by customs districts and States, built

in year ended June 30, 1898

23. Summary of Table 22..

24. Canal boats and barges built in year ended June 30, 1898-

25. Iron and steel vessels (sail, steam, barges) built in year ended June 30,
1898....

26. Tonnage built annually in New England, on the seaboard, Western

rivers, and Great Lakes, by years, from 1857-

27. Comparison of construction for 1897 and 1898.

28. Sail and steam vessels built, by years, from 1797..

28a. Sail and steam iron vessels built, by years, from 1871.

29. Vessels sold to foreigners, by years, from 1821..

30. Yachts (documented) on June 30, 1898....

31. Yachts (documented) built in year ended June 30, 1898.

32. Yachts (documented), iron and steel, built in year ended June 30, 1898.

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