Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of the TreasuryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 |
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... TONNAGE TAX . Section 14 of the act of June 26 , 1884 , changes the mode of assessing tonnage tax in ports of the United States . It reads as follows : That in lieu of the tax on tonnage of thirty cents per ton per annum heretofore im ...
... TONNAGE TAX . Section 14 of the act of June 26 , 1884 , changes the mode of assessing tonnage tax in ports of the United States . It reads as follows : That in lieu of the tax on tonnage of thirty cents per ton per annum heretofore im ...
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... tonnage duty if any to be collected under such suspension : And provided further , That all vessels which shall have paid the tonnage tax imposed by section forty - two hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes for the current year ...
... tonnage duty if any to be collected under such suspension : And provided further , That all vessels which shall have paid the tonnage tax imposed by section forty - two hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes for the current year ...
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... tonnage tax , and nationality of vessels paying the same , during the fiscal years ending June 30 , 1884 and 1885 , respectively . [ The deposits on account of tonnage were $ 400,342.46 , being in part of collections for previous year ...
... tonnage tax , and nationality of vessels paying the same , during the fiscal years ending June 30 , 1884 and 1885 , respectively . [ The deposits on account of tonnage were $ 400,342.46 , being in part of collections for previous year ...
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... tonnage tax assessed at the rate of 6 cents per ton , aggregating $ 64,381 , was paid by 6,981 vessels , of the nationalities shown by the following tables : Amount of tonnage tax paid by vessels of different flags at the rates of 3 ...
... tonnage tax assessed at the rate of 6 cents per ton , aggregating $ 64,381 , was paid by 6,981 vessels , of the nationalities shown by the following tables : Amount of tonnage tax paid by vessels of different flags at the rates of 3 ...
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... tonnage statute : TONNAGE OR LIGHT DUES LEVIED BY FOREIGN MARITIME NATIONS . GREAT BRITAIN . - The maintenance of lights on the coasts of Great Britain is a charge upon shipping collected at the custom - houses in the name of the ...
... tonnage statute : TONNAGE OR LIGHT DUES LEVIED BY FOREIGN MARITIME NATIONS . GREAT BRITAIN . - The maintenance of lights on the coasts of Great Britain is a charge upon shipping collected at the custom - houses in the name of the ...
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Page 370 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.
Page 140 - When two steam vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, so as to involve risk of collision, each shall alter her course to starboard, so that each may pass on the port side of the other.
Page 381 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel or the owner or master or crew thereof from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 370 - ... feet, then at a height : above the hull not less than such breadth, so, however, that the light need not be carried at a greater height above the hull...
Page 138 - ... such lantern shall be exhibited, in sufficient time to prevent collision, so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side.
Page 370 - ... points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Page 17 - ... any port of the United States from any foreign port, or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or the Sandwich Islands, or Newfoundland...
Page 137 - The highest and lowest of these lights shall be red, and the middle light shall be white, and they shall...
Page 370 - ... to cases in which, by day, each vessel sees the masts of the other in a line, or nearly in a line, with her own; and by night, to cases in which each vessel is in such a position as to see both the side-lights of the other.
Page 140 - In narrow channels every steam vessel shall, when it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on the starboard side of such vessel.