American Navigation: The Political History of Its Rise and Ruin and the Proper Means for Its EncouragementHoughton, Mifflin, 1902 - 466 pages |
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... correspondingly low . We are getting not to exceed forty millions a year out of fifteen hundred millions within our 1 This is an expression for the unit of combined sail and steam . 99 rights , if not easily within our reach .
... correspondingly low . We are getting not to exceed forty millions a year out of fifteen hundred millions within our 1 This is an expression for the unit of combined sail and steam . 99 rights , if not easily within our reach .
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... sail , as comprising the " World's Merchant Marine . " In the commerce of the United States in 1901 the vessels of twenty - eight different flags paid tonnage tax amounting to $ 903,138 , as carriers in our foreign trade . In 1899 , the ...
... sail , as comprising the " World's Merchant Marine . " In the commerce of the United States in 1901 the vessels of twenty - eight different flags paid tonnage tax amounting to $ 903,138 , as carriers in our foreign trade . In 1899 , the ...
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... sail one , we shall soon be established as a " creditor nation , " with the centre of exchange in New York . But what if " hard times " in Europe shall come and our exports fall off greatly ? Or if lasting and destructive own . wars ...
... sail one , we shall soon be established as a " creditor nation , " with the centre of exchange in New York . But what if " hard times " in Europe shall come and our exports fall off greatly ? Or if lasting and destructive own . wars ...
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... sail was in itself a pillar of independence . History had taught them that nations that take and keep the sea with shipping develop mili- tary , as well as civil prowess . That vessels are weapons for war no less than tools for trade ...
... sail was in itself a pillar of independence . History had taught them that nations that take and keep the sea with shipping develop mili- tary , as well as civil prowess . That vessels are weapons for war no less than tools for trade ...
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... sail tonnage , 31 per cent .; while of potential tonnage steam and sail effective — her percentage was nearly 52 , leaving but 48 for the fifty other flags . But it is not in ownership alone , and in the number of seamen , that British ...
... sail tonnage , 31 per cent .; while of potential tonnage steam and sail effective — her percentage was nearly 52 , leaving but 48 for the fifty other flags . But it is not in ownership alone , and in the number of seamen , that British ...
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Page 356 - The congress shall have power — 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States: 2.
Page 167 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Page 415 - ... shall be imported into the United States, from any foreign port or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels as truly and wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of which the goods are the growth, production, or manufacture; or from which such goods, wares, or merchandise can only be, or most usually are, first shipped for transportation.
Page 45 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed upon, to take into consideration the trade of the United States ; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony ; and to report to the several States such an act, relative to this great object, as, when ratified by them, will enable the United States in Congress effectually to provide for the same.
Page 179 - Europe, and no higher or other duties shall be imposed on the importation into the territories of his Britannic Majesty in Europe of any article the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country...
Page 161 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it, not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Page 358 - ' to provide for the common defense and general welfare ' ' to cases which are to be provided for by the expenditure of money would still leave within the legislative power of Congress all the great and most important measures of Government, money being the ordinary and necessary means of carrying them into execution.
Page 414 - That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States...
Page 271 - States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 155 - An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...