| Emory Richard Johnson - Panama Canal (Panama) - 1913 - 718 pages
...expense of remeaaurement; and, lastly, taxation when imposed would be rendered more simple and more juet. Under these circumstances there can be but one opinion...necessity, of some general system of measuring merchant shipping.1 During the half century that has elapsed since this admirable statement was made of the... | |
| Emory Richard Johnson - Panama Canal (Panama) - 1916 - 342 pages
...providing for this amendment. At the present time the bill is pending in the House of Representatives. The existence of dissimilar rules in different countries...some general system of measuring merchant shipping. Following the passage of the British Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, and the formulation of the Suez... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1935 - 70 pages
...following statement : " If one system could be adopted by all maritime nations, so that the capacity of nny given ship, when once officially ascertained and denoted...many? Mr. LEA. There are six on this subcommittee. Mr. FARLEY. I will be very pleased to. If there is nothing further, Mr. Morrison, who is associated with... | |
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