Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889.
- Marine Hospital Service
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![304. Customs officers will collect from vessels arriving Entes for ubboss- in the United States from any foreign port of North — A—— America north of the southern terminus of the Isthmus 121, ibs'j, act j’uuo 26 of Darien, or any port in Newfoundland, the West In- dian, Bahama, Bermuda, or Sandwich Islands, a dut)’- of three cents per ton on every entry; but the total tax in any one year on entries from the ports specified is not to exceed fifteen cents. The tax to be collected on vessels making entry on arrival from other foreign ports is six cents per ton on every entry; but the total tax collected at six cents per ton is not to exceed thirty cents per ton in any one year. 305. Any vessel making such voyages as to beeome lia- Numberi.ftimus ble in any one year under both rates—that is, at three Bc^Bcd.’^ cents per ton and six cents per ton—shall not be held lia- ble to an aggregate tax of more than thirty eents per ton for any one year, reckoned from the date of the entry and payment of her first tax at either rate; but the three- cent tax per ton shall not be collected on more than five entries in any one year. 306. For half a ton or more than half a ton of the smaii craft «.x- measurement of a vessel, colleetion will be made at the full rates of three or six cents per ton; for less than half a ton no collection will be made. 307. As provided by the act of June 26, 1884, “that the Dues Biispoiidfd President of the United States shall suspend the collee- tion of so much of the duty herein imposed on vessels entered from any port in the Dominion of Canada, New- foundland, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands the West India Islands, Mexico, and Central America down to and including Aspinwall and Panama, as may be m excess of the tonnage and light-house dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes, imposed on Ameriean vessels by the government of the foreign country in which such port IS situated, and shall upon the passage of this act and from time to time thereafter as often as it may be’ come necessary by reason of changes in the laws of the foreign countries above mentioned, indicate by proela- mation the ports to which such suspension shall apply [83]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28716097_0089.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
