STATUTES, PKOCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1339 



United States relative to the duty of tonnage on vessels. On all 

 foreign vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any 

 foreign port or place, to and with which vessels of the United States 

 are not ordinarily permitted to enter and trade, there shall be paid 

 a duty at the rate of two dollars per ton ; and none of the duties on 

 tonnage above mentioned shall be levied on the vessels of any foreign 

 nation if the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the 

 discriminating or countervailing duties of such foreign nations, so 

 far as they operate to the disadvantage of the United States, have 

 been abolished. In addition to the tonnage-duty above imposed, 

 there shall be paid a tax, at the rate of thirty cents per ton, on vessels 

 which shall be entered at any custom-house within the United 

 790 States from any foreign port or place; and any rights or 

 privileges acquired by any foreign nation under the laws and 

 treaties of the United States relative to the duty of tonnage on 

 vessels shall not be impaired ; and any vessel any officer of which shall 

 not be a citizen of the United States shall pay a tax or fifty cents 

 per ton.] 



SEC. 4220. No vessel belonging to any citizen of the United States, 

 trading from one port within the United States to another port 

 within the United States, or employed in the bank, whale, or other 

 fisheries, shall be subject to tonnage tax or duty, if such vessel be 

 licensed, registered or enrolled. 



SEC. 4221. In cases of vessels making regular daily trips between 

 any port of the United States and any port in the Dominion of 

 Canada, wholly upon interior waters not navigable to the ocean, no 

 tonnage or clearance fees shall be charged against such vessel by the 

 officers of the United States, except upon the first clearing of such 

 vessel in each year. 



SEC. 4222. No consul or consular agent of the United States shall 

 exact tonnage fees from any vessel of the United States, touching 

 at or near ports in Canada, on her regular voyage from one port to 

 another within the United States, unless such consul or consular agent 

 shall perform some official services, required by law for such vessel, 

 when she shall thus touch at a Canadian port. 



SEC. 4223. The tonnage duty imposed on all vessels engaged in 

 foreign commerce shall be levied but once within one year, and, when 

 paid by such vessel, no further tonnage tax shall be collected within 

 one year from the date of such payment. But this provision shall 

 not extend to foreign vessels entered in the United States from any 

 foreign port, to and with which vessels of the United States are not 

 ordinarily permitted to enter and trade. 



SEC. 4224. Vessels which pay tonnage duties once in a year shall 

 pay the same either at their first clearance from or entry at, according 

 to priority, a custom-house in the United States in each calendar year. 

 Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent customs officers 

 from collecting such tonnage duty at the entry of vessels at their 

 respective custom-houses during the calendar year if the same has not 

 previously been paid for such year. 



SEC. 4225. A duty of fifty cents per ton, to be denominated " light, 

 money," shall be levied and collected on all vessels not of the United 

 States, which may enter the ports of the United States. Such light- 

 money shall be levied and collected in the same manner and under the 

 same regulations as the tonnage duties. 



