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Portugal grants postal subventions of comparatively small amounts to
three steamship companies which perform all her mail carrying. A move
toward the institution of a general subsidy system was made in 1899,
when a bill was before the Cortes providing construction and navigation
bounties for the encouragement of domestic shipbuilding and ship-using;
but this measure was not enacted. In 1911 the republic offered a subsidy
of one thousand dollars per voyage in either direction for steamship
service between Lisbon and New York, with call at the Azores, the
contract to run for three years.[EF] Portugal controls her shipping
service with her colonies, the trade with them being restricted to the
Portuguese flag.[EG] Her total tonnage is small: in 1910 only 110,183
tons.[EH]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote DZ: U.S. Con. Rept., no. 112, January, 1890, pp. 54-56.]
[Footnote EA: U.S. Vice Con. Gen. William Dawson jr., Con. Repts., no.
349, Oct., 1910.]
[Footnote EB: U.S. Con. Repts., 1890.]
[Footnote EC: Meeker.]
[Footnote ED: U.S. Con. Rept., no. 349, Oct., 1909.]
[Footnote EE: Lloyd's Register, 1910-11.]
[Footnote EF: Daily Con. Repts., no.
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