The members of the board of managers are State nominees, and the
officers and crews are regarded as employees of the crown.[EZ] The
subsidy is fixed at six hundred thousand rubles ($309,999) a year; and
the refunded Suez Canal tolls amount to another six hundred thousand
rubles.[FA]
The mileage subsidies, given directly to foster shipping, increased
rapidly from year to year after 1890, while the postal subventions, for
mail carriage chiefly, remained practically constant.[FB]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote EQ: Meeker.]
[Footnote ER: U.S. Consul Smith, Moscow, in Con. Rept., no. 216, p. 149,
Sept., 1898.]
[Footnote ES: U.S. Con. Gen. R.T. Greener, St. Petersburg, in U.S. Con.
Rept., no. 236, p. 91, May, 1900.]
[Footnote ET: Report of The Merchant Marine Commission (U.S.), 1905,
vol. II, p. 947.]
[Footnote EU: U.S. Commercial Agent R.T. Greener, Vladivostock, in U.S.
Con. Repts., no. 265, p. 218, October, 1902.]
[Footnote EV: Same, no. 313, p. 140, October, 1906.]
[Footnote EW: Con. Gen. John H. Snodgrass, Moscow, in U.S. Con. Repts.,
no. 354, pp. 32-33, March, 1910.]
[Footnote EX: Lloyd's Register, 1910-11.]
[Footnote EY: Con. Gen. Snodgrass, Con. Repts., no. 102, Oct., 1910.
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