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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32317 and id is 1 raw text is: 56TH CONGRESS, SENATE. J DOCUMENT 2d Session. ) No. 161. VESSELS OF UNITED STATES ENGAGED IN FOREIGN COMMERCE, ETC. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING, IN RESPONSE TO RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF FEBRUARY 11, 1901, A STATEMENT PREPARED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF NAVIGATION OF THE NUMBER OF VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES ENGAGED IN FOREIGN COMMERCE, THE NUMBER OF VESSELS NOW ENGAGED IN THE COASTWISE TRADE THAT COULD BE REGISTERED FOR FOREIGN TRADE UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE PENDING SHIPPING BILL, AND A LIST OF SHIPS CONTRACTED FOR ABROAD. FEBRUARY 18, 1901.-Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Washington, February 192, 1901. SIR: The Department has received the following resolution of the Senate, adopted February 11, 1901: Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to send to the Senate the number of vessels, as near as may be, and the tonnage of each vessel now registered as engaged in foreign commerce, and the number of vessels now engaged in the coastwise trade that can be registered for the foreign trade under the provisions of senate bill numbered seven hundred and twenty- seven, entitled A bill to promote the commerce and increase the foreign trade of the United States, and to provide auxiliary cruisers, transports, and seamen for Government use when necessary, giving the name and tonnage of each vessel as far as practicable, whether employed in the coastwise or foreign trade, and whether propelled by sail or steam, and the time when each of such vessels obtained regis- try; and also state the amount, as near as may be, that each vessel would be entitled to receive annually if contract were made as provided in said bill; also the number of foreign-built vessels not having an American register, but authorized by said bill to receive registry. and the tonnage of each, and the amount of sub- sidy each would receive if such bill was enacted into law and its provisions should be availed of by the several persons indicated in said bill as entitled to receive the co)mpensation therein provided for: also the number of foreign ships registered as contracted for to be built prior to February first, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, and the tonnage of each of said ships. S D-14 -1

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