Tonnage duties, as the name indicates, are a form of taxation calculated on the basis of the tonnage admeasurement of the vessel; they are levied on American as well as foreign ships, though the rate is higher on the latter than on the former.
If I be right in this, how could we make any entirely new improvements by means of tonnage duties?
Because the States may do enough by the levy and collection of tonnage duties; or, if not, "5.
Now, I suppose this matter of tonnage duties is well enough in its own sphere.
Mr. Chairman, the President seems to think that enough may be done in the way of improvements, by means of tonnage duties, under State authority, with the consent of the General Government.
If I be right in this, how could we make any entirely new improvement by means of tonnage duties?
Because the States may do enough by the levy and collection of tonnage duties; or if not--Fifth.
We shall never make a canal by tonnage duties until it shall already have been made awhile, so the tonnage can get into it.
Now I suppose this matter of tonnage duties is well enough in its own sphere.
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