The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-13
TUE stale DIES


A blue-boOk just printed contains, with one hun
dred and sixty pages of evidence and statistical
matter, the following resolutions, adopted by the
select committee appointed to inquire into the
origin of the claim of the Government of Hanover
to levy the Stade tolls, to consider in what degree
they are detrimental to the commerce of the
United Kingdom, and the effect of giving notice
to determine the treaty under which this country
has assented to the payment of such tolls for linn
tied period.
l. That the foundation of the claim of Hanover
to levy the Stade toll a treaty with Denmark
in l7l7, \. d., and further treaty with Sweden
in l7l9, by which whatever right these countries
possessed was transferred to the Elector of Hano-
yer.
2: That the proportion of Stade toll to freight
in British ships from Hull to Hamburg is at the
present time, bale of spun silk, rs per cent;
on bale of cotton goods, l42 per cent; and on
bale of wooden yarn, 36 per cent. That the
average annual amount of Stade tolls levied
cargoes, under the British flag, has risen f3 los.
per one hundred tons British in 1917 to a Gs. 4d.
in 1855.
3. That the increase on British tonnage entering
the port of Hamburg has been lO2 per cent. since
lS49, while the increase on Hamburg tonnage has
been 24S per cent. since 1Sl9, and the foreign ton
mage, exclusive of British and Hamburg, entering
the port of Hamburg, has, during the same period,
increased 80 per cent
a. That the Stade toll is injurious to the trade
and shipping of the United Kingdom.
D. That the tax is specially prejudical to the part
OF produce and trade which has to compete in for
WIFI articles subject to the
tax, and this is felt sensbly in the coal trade and
particularly in the export of the less valuable de-
script0ns of coal.
g. That goods, the property of Hamburg citizens
and carried in Hamburg ships, are exempt from the
Stade toll and British ships are thereby exposed to
an unfair competition.
Z. That the general trade to Hamburg notwith-
standing the encouragement occasoned by the
tax has more than doubled within the last ten
Years.
s. That the trade to Hamburg, which is free
from Stade toll, has risen in still more striking
ratio; that of Bremen, the Esfeth toll on the
Weser having ceased, and that of Stettin (the
Sound Dues having been abolished,) have also in
creased in very large proportion.
8. That the Stade toll differs from the Sound
Dues, inasmuch the Sound Dues were a tax
charged not only upon articles of export, but also
on articles of general use imported into the United
Kingdom; but the Stade toll is levied on exports
from, and not on imports into, the United King
dom.
TO- That it does not appear that any service
whatever is rendered by Hanover in return
for the tax levied upon the commerce of Great
Britain.
H. That if the treaty of 1914, by which the
United Kingdom is bound for limited period to
assent to the payment of the Stade toll, were de-
termlned by notice pursuant to the terms thereof,
but little injury or inconvenience would arise to
the trade of this country.
II. That is expedent that notice should be
given to terminate the treaty of 1874 with Han
over.