PROGRESS OF THE TONNAGE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THIRTY-ONE YEARS. A comparative view of the registered and enrolled tonnage of the United States; showing the registered tonnage employed in the whale fishery; also, the proportion of the enrolled and licensed tonnage employed in the coasting trade, cod fishery, mackerel fishery, and whale fishery, from 1815 to 1845, inclusiv VESSELS BUILT IN THE UNITED STATES IN THIRTY-ONE YEARS. Statement showing the number and class of vessels built in the several States and Territories of the United States, from 1815 to 1845, inclusive. SHIPPING OF THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. We published in the Merchants' Magazine for November, 1845, (Vol. xiii., No. 5,) a tabular statement of the shipping of all denominations, owned in New York, prepared by Mr. J. Dodge, Jr., a clerk in the naval office, and in the number for January, 1846, (Vol. xiv., No. 1,) a similar account of the shipping of Boston, politely furnished by the Hon. MARCUS MORTON, the Collector of that port. For the following corresponding statement of the shipping of Philadelphia, we are indebted, as will be seen by the annexed note, to HENRY HORN, Esq., the Collector of Customs for the port of Philadelphia. According to the last annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, the aggregate tonnage of the district of Philadelphia, on the last day of June, 1845, was 130,406.88; that of Boston, 227,994.54; and that of New York district, 550,359.48.* COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, District of Philadelphia, 19th March, 1846. SIR-I send you herewith a table of the number, names, and tonnage of vessels employed at this place. It is as nearly correct as we can make it, from the data in this office. Very respectfully yours, &c. HENRY HORN, Collector. FREEMAN HUNT, Esq. For tonnage of the several collection districts of the United States, in 1845, see pages 473, 474, 475, of the present number of this Magazine. |