Dues and Charges on Shipping in Foreign Ports; A Manual of Reference for the Use of Shipowners, Shipbrokers, and Shipmasters

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...or inhabitants of the United States, unless the master or person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel shall have on board a manifest or manifests. Three copies of the manifest should be made, in writing, signed by such master or other person, containing the name or names of the port or ports, place or places, where the goods in such manifest or manifests mentioned, shall have been respectively taken on board, and the port or ports, place or placs, within the United States for which the same are respectively consigned or destined, particularly noting the goods, wares, and merchandise destined f r each port or place respectively, and the name, description, and build of such ship or vessel, and the true admeasurement or tonnage thereof, the port or place to which such vessel belongs, with the name or names of each owner, according to the register of the same, together with the name of the master or other pers-oii having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, and a just and particular account of all the goods, wares, and merchandise so laden or taken on board, whether in packages or stowed loose, of any kind or nature whatsoever, together with the marks and numbers as marked on each package, and the number or quantity and description of the packages, in words at length, whether leaguer, pipe, butt, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, keg, case, bale, pack, truss, chest, box, handbox, bundle, parcel, cask, or package, of any kind or sort, describing the same by its usual name or denomination, together with the name or names of the person or persona to whom the same are respectively consigned, agreeably to the bill of lading signed for the same, unless when the said goods are consigned to order, when it shall be so expressed in the said manifest or ...