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Increase in ocean-carrying trade, consequent upon the new tariff act

Operation of the registry law.

Fear of old vessels

Value of the carrying trade.

Free registry and subsidies not conflicting or alternative propositions.

Subsidies and mail compensation

Subsidies not clear profit.....

Forms of bounties and subsidies.

British mail payments.

Admiralty subventions....

French and Italian bounties.

Discriminating taxes on shipping.

Not a practical measure

Purpose of such taxes in early American history

Cost of construction

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Operation of reciprocity section.

Disadvantages of net tonnage as basis of tax..

Advantages of gross tonnage as basis of tax.

Proposed law reducing rate and levying tax on gross tonnage

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Features of the year's construction

Tonnage and construction for 1894 compared with 1893, with statistical sum-

maries, by geographical distribution, power and material, and trade...

Progress during the past decade

Increase in size of vessels.

Decrease in registered tonnage, with comparison at ten-year periods.

Geographical distribution.

Reports of steamship companies

Revised rule of the road...

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Shipments before collectors of customs.

Shipments before U. S. consuls...

1. Shipments before U. S. commissioners.

Table of number of crews and men shipped on steam and sail vessels

in foreign and domestic trade, by ports.

2. Nationality of seamen..

Foreign element in British merchant marine.

Foreign element in German merchant marine.

Table of nativity of seamen shipped, by ports.

3. Available seamen, classed by nationality, in American ports

4. Discharges of seamen, expenses of commissioners..

Table showing discharges of crews in foreign and coasting trade,

total shipments and discharges, total expenses of shipping com-

missioners, and per capita cost of services by ports

5. Manning of vessels.

Manning of British vessels.

Table of average number of crew and average number of men per

100 tous shipped on steam and sail vessels in foreign and coasting

6. Report of New York shipping commissioner.

Shipments and discharges.

Crews and parts of crews for registered steamships

Nationality of seamen

Manning of vessels.

Scarcity of American seamen

Remarks on wages..

Advantages of American vessels.

Protection of sailors

Allotmentnotes..

Sailors' unions

7. Decrease of American seamen.

8. Causes of the decrease of American seamen.

B. Shipping commissioners' reports-Continued.

9. Remedies for decrease of American seamen

10. Apprentices.

Apprentices in British merchant marine.

Boys in German merchant mariwe.

11. American seamen on foreign vessels.

12. Preferences shown for Scandinavian seamen

13. Advantages of American vessels.

14. Complaints and abuses.

15. Suggestions upon legislation for shipment of seamen

C. Wages of seamen (American and foreign).

1. Wages on American vessels.

Comparative wages on American and British vessels.

Tables showing monthly wages paid at American ports on Amer-

ican steam and sail vessels of various tonnages to able seamen,

boatswains, carpenters, first and second mates, firemen, first and

second engineers on voyages to Great Britain, continent of Europe,

South America, West Indies and Central America, Atlantic and

Gulf coasting trade, Atlantic and Pacific coasting trade, Asia,

Australia, Pacific coasting trade, and Hawaii..

2. Wages on British vessels.

Comparison on steam and sail vessels since 1870

Comparison of American and British wages

Wages in the hold and on deck...

Efficiency of labor..

Rise and decline of British wages...

Table (1) showing maximum, minimum, and ordinary wages for

1893 of able seamen, first mates, second mates, and boatswains on

British sailing vessels, cargo steamers, and passenger steamers on

voyages to the several continents

Table (2) showing wages as in table (1) of first and second engi-

neers, firemen and trimmers on British steam vessels

Table (3) showing wages paid to British able seamen on steam and

sailing vessels in 1870, 1880, 1891, 1892, 1893..

Table (4) showing British wages, as in Table (3), of first and sec-

ond mates, boatswains, carpenters, sailmakers, quartermasters,

engineers, and firemen

3. Table of wages in the German and French merchant marine.........

4. Wages paid crews of foreign vessels at American ports.

5. Reports of consuls

Southampton: Wages and nationality of crews shipped for Ameri-

can vessels, and British wages

Liverpool: Wages and nationality of crews shipped for American

Hamburg: Condition of American merchant marine

Havre: Shipments and wages

Victoria, British Columbia: Wages on American vessels, on British

vessels to Australia and China, fare on American vessels.

Panama: Shipments for Américan vessels, wages and nationality of

Curaçoa: Shipments for American vessels....

Valparaiso: Wages paid on British steamships, nationality of sea-

French subsidy report on net tonnage, and French law

British, German, and Danube measurement rules

Gross and net tonnage and percentage of deduction of various nations.

Gross and net tonnage and dimensions of type vessels

Tonnage certificates of type steamships

Changes in French, German, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, and Russian ton-

Annual tonnage taxes since 1884

Collections for 1893-'94 by flag, steam, or sail, and 6-cent or 3-cent rates

Collections for 1893-'94 by ports.

F. State taxes on shipping...

Laws of the States arranged in order of customs districts from Maine

down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, up the Pacific and through

the Great Lakes, with occasional observations by collectors of

customs and local assessment boards on operations of the laws.

G. Port charges in American ports by State law or local ordinance, including

pilotage, quarantine, wharfage, towage, harbor-masters' fees,

etc., arranged by States as above......

H. Foreign taxation of shipping...

Synoptical table of taxes on shipping as property, port charges, object

of tax, and flag discriminations under laws of Great Britain, Ger-

many, France, Italy, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Sweden, Denmark,

China, Japan, Dominion of Canada..

I. American shipping entered during the last fiscal year at 45 principal sea-

ports of the world

K. Ocean mail compensation, subsidies, admiralty subventions, and foreign

merchant marines.

United States: Ocean mail compensation for fiscal year ended June 30,

Admiralty subventions.

Mail compensation for fiscal year ended March 31, 1894.

Relative land and sea mail expenditures of Great Britain

Naval reserve expenditures..

Genesis of British mail payments (extract from article on subsidies

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Extracts from French parliamentary report (M. Siegfried) on opera-

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Number, gross tonnage, horse power, and value of merchant steam fleets.

L. Reports of principal steamship companies-Continued.

Dividends, value per ton, receipts from passengers, freight, and mails..

Expenditures for coal, wages, provisions, depreciation, repairs, insur-

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M. Steam communication with foreign countries, showing established steam-

ship lines, ports of entry and clearance, nature of service, average

period of voyage, with lists of steamships, gross tonnage, flag,

year and material of construction, approximate number of crews,

and value of vessels...

N. Grain export and fruit import trade..

Shipping employed in export of grain from New York.

American ownership under foreign flags.

Shipping employed in import of fruit from Central America and West

O. The world's tonnage

1. World's steam and sail tonnage for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1892, by

2. World's steam and sail tonnage for 1893-'94, by countries (Bureau

3. World's steam and sail tonnage for 1894, by countries (Lloyd's Reg-

4. Total tonnage, and proportions of steam and sail as power, wood,

iron, and steel as material of construction in world's tonnage, for

1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 (Lloyd's Register), with British, French,

and German in detail

5. Total tonnage and proportions of steam and sail, and potential ton-

nage from 1886 to 1893 (Bureau Veritas).

6. Annual construction of the world, steam and sail, wood, iron, and steel,

for 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893 (Lloyd's Register)

7. Details of world's construction, output of foreign yards for 1893,

construction during 1894 (Lloyd's Register).

P. Progress and changes of American shipping during the decade 1884-1894...

1. Composition of American merchant fleet, classed by motive power

(steam or sail) and material of construction (wood, iron, steel), for

1885, 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893..

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