 | 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 - 326 pages
...following statement: If one system could be adopted by all maritime nations, so that the capacity of any given ship, when once officially ascertained and denoted...some general system of measuring merchant shipping. Following the passage of the British Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, and the formulation of the Suez... | |
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The statistics of navigation would be rendered more simple, intelligible, and accurate. The merchant or shipowner would at once understand the size and capacity of the ships he employs or purchases ; he would also escape the annoyance and expense of remeasurement... 