While the ocean tonnage has declined
from more than two and a half million tons in 1861 to some eight hundred
thousand tons, that engaged in the coastwise and inland trade has
steadily increased for many years.[IS] On the Great Lakes especially is
employed a fine and powerful merchant fleet.
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote IN: Registry law of 1792, in Revised Statutes, sec. 4132.]
[Footnote IO: Revised Statutes, see. 4131.]
[Footnote IP: Tariff act of Aug. 5, 1909, sec. 19.]
[Footnote IQ: Postoffice Department report, 1910.]
[Footnote IR: Postmaster-general Hitchcock, report, 1910.]
[Footnote IS: American Year Book, 1911.]
INDEX
_Adriatic_, the steamer,
American Shipping League,
American Steamship Company,
American Year Book, _reference to_,
Anderson, Com. Gen. George E., _reference to_,
_Arctic_, the steamer,
_Argentina_, use of subsidies in,
Aspinwall, W.H.,
_Atlantic_, the steamer,
Atlantic Transport line,
_Auguste Victoria_, the steamer,
Australasia line,
Australian line,
Austria-Hungary, history of the use of subsidies in,
provisions for two classes of subsidies in,
increase in the proportion of steamers built in,
total of tonnage in,
grants of,
Austrian Lloyd Company,
Austro-American Shipping Company,
Austro-Hungarian Lloyd Company, _see_ Austrian Lloyd Company.
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