Our Merchant Marine How It Rose Increased Became Great Declined And Decayed

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Under existing circumstances the law subserves little other pur- pose than to furnish a never-ending source of dispute and bad temper between captains, crews, and consular officers, and ought to be repealed.
In addition to the burdens and grievances above noticed, to which the merchant marine of the United States is subjected, there has also grown up, under our national policy of ignorance and neglect, ' a host of other petty and vexatious taxes on shipping, the nature of which can be best illu
...strated by recounting the experience of a vessel entering or clearing from the port of New York, the point where in 1880 nearly 57 per cent of the entire foreign commerce of the country was concentrated.
After the pilot, whose charges range from $3. 70 per foot for vessels drawing 13 feet of water, to $6. 50 per foot for vessels in excess of 20 feet draught, comes the health- officer, whose fee for inspection, and permit to proceed 1 84 . OUR MERCHANT MARINE.
into port, is $6. 50 for sailing-vessels.


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