TABLE 85.-Provisions in tariff and tonnage-tax laws intended to promote foreign commerce, American shipping and ship-building-Continued. Coffee and tea on free list in American or foreign vessels entitled to reciprocity. Canadian Reciprocity Treaty. Schedule I of July 1846 on tea and coffee re-enacted. Do. Re-export bonding of railroad iron. 90 per cent re-export drawback. 10 per cent additional duty on eastern cargoes shipped from west of Good Hope. Bonding regulations. Sec. 14 of July 1862 suspended. Sec. 14 of July 1862 re-enacted, except on certain goods. Articles for building wooden ships in foreign trade free. Regulation of Canadian transit trade. Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. Discrimination on eastern goods imported from west of Good Hope removed. Discrimination on eastern goods imported from west of Good Hope and held in storage, removed. No imports from nations barring American vessels, except in American or foreign vessels entitled to reciprocity. Tonnage act. Tonnage act amended. Hawaiian reciprocity treaty renewed. Nov. 1887 Oct. 189045 1Compiled from statutes of United States. 'Re-export drawbacks on certain articles under prescribed regulations. 3Number of schedule. "Ten per cent discrimination against foreign vessels, except where otherwise provided by law or treaty. "For application of reciprocity provisions, see table 84. "Countervailing duties on certain articles. TABLE 85.-Provisions in tariff and tonnage-tax laws intended to promote foreign commerce, American shipping, and ship-building-Continued. Provisions as to St. John and St. Croix lumber. 99 per cent re-export drawback. Binding twine not on free list, if the American product is charged a duty. Petroleum not on free list, if the American product is charged a duty. Sulphuric acid not on free list, if the American product is charged a duty. Partial shipping reciprocity may be granted in return for partial shipping rights. Cuban reciprocity treaty. Payne-Aldrich act. Par. 428. Drawback on coal used by American vessels in foreign trade. Minimum tariff rates. Maximum tariff rates. 2 3 Cuban treaty not terminated. 5 5 Oct. 19132 4A Articles for repairing American ships in foreign trade free. 99 per cent re-export drawback. Tonnage-tax law revised. Do. Panama Canal act. Articles for building and repairing ships in foreign and domestic trade free. Free shipping in foreign trade. Underwood act. Reciprocity agreements authorized 4G7 Discount of 5 per cent on imports in American vessels; treaties not to be impaired. "Ten per cent discrimination against foreign vessels, except where otherwise provided by law or treaty. For application of reciprocity provisions, see table 84. "Countervailing duties on certain articles. BIBLIOGRAPHY. REFERENCES ON BIBLIOGRAPHY. References on bibliography, 352. Colonial trade and trade to 1789, 353. Domestic commerce, 354. The foreign trade, 1789-1914, 356. Trade with non-contiguous possessions, 359. Fisheries, 360. Government aid and commercial policy, 361. General references, 364; on colonial trade and trade to 1789, 370; on domestic commerce, 374; on the foreign trade, 1789-1914, 377; on trade with non-contiguous possessions, 382; on fisheries, 384; on Government aid and commercial policy, 385. There is no formal bibliography concerning the history of the commerce of the United States. E. L. Bogart, in his Economic History of the United States (2d ed., 1912), gives a list of selected references at the close of each chapter and a general list of works on economic history at the close of the volume. The bibliographical material in Clive Day, History of Commerce (1907), is excellent, though the space devoted to the United States is necessarily limited. Katharine Coman, Industrial History of the United States (rev. ed., 1910), contains marginal references and a short bibliography. Various portions of Channing, Hart and Turner, Guide to the Study and Reading of American History (rev. ed., 1912), especially §§ 35, 38, 53, 122, 125, 171, 182, 189, 190, 194, 201, 216, 220, 245, 248, 250, 253, 259, 260, 261, and 264 give a well-selected list of works on the economic development of the nation. This work also gives (§ 26) a list of the indexes to public documents and a list (§ 24) of other useful indexes. The recent bibliography, S. J. Buck, Travel and Description, 1765–1865 (Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, vol. ix, Bibliographical Series, vol. II, 1914), though compiled primarily for the use of students of Illinois history, is nevertheless of value to students in the general field of American history. Special lists of works on topics closely related to commercial history have been issued by the Library of Congress, among the most valuable of which are A. P. C. Griffin, A List of Books on Mercantile Marine Subsidies (1903, 1906), List of Works on Reciprocity with Canada (1907), List of Works on the Tariffs of Foreign Countries (1906); Griffin and Meyer, List of References on Reciprocity (1910), and H. H. B. Meyer, Additional References Relating to Reciprocity with Canada (1911), Additional References to Mercantile Marine Subsidies (1911). Several general works on the history of the United States contain bibliographies with sections devoted to economic and commercial history. Of especial importance is A. B. Hart (ed.), The American Nation (27 vols. 1904-1907), and in no other recent general work on the United States has more attention been given to economic questions or more care given to the preparation of bibliographical material. In Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America (vol. vIII, 1889, pp. 489-94), a short list of the best authorities on the economic history of the United States is given, together with a complete bibliography of accounts of travelers who visited the country before 1820. The constant employment of newspaper sources by J. B. McMaster in 352 his History of the People of the United States (8 vols. 1883-1913) renders his work invaluable as a guide to the great mass of information bearing on commercial activities which may be found in newspapers. The list of indexes of Federal documents to be found in Channing, Hart and Turner's Guide (§ 26) has already been mentioned. The most convenient index is the Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 (vol. 1, 1911) prepared by the Superintendent of Documents. Other especially valuable indexes of Federal documentary material are B. P. Moore, Descriptive Catalogue of Government Publications (1885); J. M. Baker, Finding List to Important Serial Documents Published by the Government (Sen. Doc. No. 238, 56 Cong., 2 sess., 1901); Index to Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives (1887); Index to Reports of Committees of the Senate (1887); and Superintendent of Documents, Monthly Catalogue, United States Documents (1895 The most useful lists of State publications are R. R. Bowker, State Publications: A Provisional List of the Official Publications of the Several States (4 parts, 1899-1908), and Adelaide R. Hasse, Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States (Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 85, 1907-1915). So far the latter work includes 13 States-Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Delaware, Ohio, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. COLONIAL TRADE AND TRADE TO 1789. The bibliography of the commerce of the colonial period was considered at length in two notes appended to Chapter VI of Volume One, pages 112 to 117. The first of the notes discussed the scope and limitations of the sources of statistical information, and the second note reviewed the documentary sources. The documentary sources of greatest volume and value are in England, and are, for the most part, unpublished. Students using these documents will be assisted by Prof. C. M. Andrews's report upon "Materials in British Archives for American Colonial History" (American Historical Review, x, 1904-1905); also his Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783, in the Public Record Office of Great Britain (2 vols., 1912-1914); and Andrews and Davenport, Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in Minor London Archives, and in Libraries of Oxford and Cambridge (1908). A report was made in 1905 upon "Materials on Commerce in the Various Depositories in London," by Dr. Albert A. Giesecke. This report is in unpublished typewritten form. A copy has been deposited in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and another copy with the Department of History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. The notes and bibliography in Dr. Giesecke's volume upon American Commercial Legislation Before 1789 (1910) will be of much assistance in locating important documentary sources in the United States. The scholarly works by H. L. Osgood upon The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (3 vols. 1904-1907) and by George L. Beer upon The Origins of the British Colonial System, 1578-1660 (1908), The Old Colonial System, 1660–1754 (2 vols., 1913) and British Colonial Policy, 1754– 1765 (1907) contain a wealth of references to sources of information. DOMESTIC COMMERCE. The period previous to 1860 is singularly lacking in Government documents concerning domestic commerce. Not until 1844 did Congress specificially order the preparation of a report on domestic trade, and this report, Statistics of Agriculture and Manufactures and Domestic Trade of the Several States and Territories (House Doc. No. 35, 28 Cong., 2 sess., 1845), contained nothing on the subject of commerce except a few statistics on the trade of the Ohio canals. Hamilton's Report on Manufactures (American State Papers, Finance, I, 123), Gallatin's Report on Internal Improvements (American State Papers, Miscellaneous, 1, 724), Gallatin's Report on Manufactures (American State Papers, Finance, II, 425) and Calhoun's Report on Internal Improvements (Works, R. K. Crallé, ed. v, 40, 1856) were the most important Federal reports reflecting the state of domestic trade before the publication of the large and exceptionally valuable report of Israel D. Andrews On the Trade and Commerce of . . . the Great Lakes and Rivers . (1853). The report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Statistics of the Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States (1864), gives an excellent account of the development of the trade between the Eastern and Central States during the three decades preceding the Civil War. The twelve Reports on Internal Commerce, issued by the Bureau of Statistics from 1876 to 1891, contain a large amount of historical material, gathered from various sources (usually unacknowledged), the report for 1887 being especially valuable for the statistical information concerning the trade on the Mississippi River. Between 1892 and 1899 no statistics of domestic trade were compiled, except a report by George G. Tunell, Lake Commerce (1898). From 1900 until 1913 the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance contained in each issue statistics of the trade of important primary markets. It also contained during this time several monographs dealing with the trade in leading staples. The most important of these monographs and the date of the issue of the Monthly Summary were as follows: Grain Trade of the United States (January 1900), Provision Trade of the United States (February 1900), Cotton Trade of the United States (March 1900), Coal Trade of the United States (April 1900), Iron and Steel Trade of the United States (August 1900), Lumber Trade of the United States (November 1900), Internal Commerce (March 1901). The decennial Census Reports since 1850 have contained a large amount of useful information on domestic commerce and transportation, and the special report, |