The New York herald., 1874-01-15
INTERNATIONAL TONNAGE COMMISSION

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Important Report Bearing on the Navi-
CATION or tho sues Canal.
From the London Times, Jan. IL
After having examined the act Of concession
ana the documents above mentioned the COM
mission opened the discussions thereon, and,
having successively listened to the observations OF
the delegates Of Germany, Austria, Spain, Great
Britain, Greece Italy. Holland, Russia and Turkey
was called upon to deliberate upon form of reso.
luton presented by the delegates OF Great Britain,
as contained In the process perb0ur, Nos Is TO l6.
But before voting this resolution the commission
received, on the 9Th OF December, through Its
President, communication Of letter Of the same
date, addressed to HIM by His Excellency Rachid
Pacha, Minister for Foreign Affairs. In Difference
to the recommendation contained IN that letter
the commission discussed and adopted oficiaIly an
opinion in the following form, which was accepted
ANONYMOUSLY n. and which the commission declares
by the Sublime Porte:-
OPINION
Being inyiteo BY the Sublime Porte to express an opn;
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the stS Of becember is Referring on the one hand to
S act OF CONGESTION Of the sue5 Cnns a. s Which
View 1iasd g p q sns 's
By @
the Sommisson y Of opinion that the dues
&c the the &c regulated By an
Ia surtax Of four francs, In addition to the tax
Ct 10 %
Sssn ~ SnSe5 E Is the Mer
s Ss % SS
and the Bnrtax.
Understood that ships already measured
eenmission and parcuiary those under paIagraph b2
act Of ss shah Be liable rom the present. time to only
n.tsx Of three francs per ton Of net register
exceed 80 Pc, cent Of the gross tonnage xs
Gross tcnn.se q sps not measured under Moor
BY the apphSaton q the Danube scale Of
sec.ions G Of the above, named clause . Of Mer;
chant g % These vessels sha pay and
on their net tonnage
be REDUCED il the groDoroas
tonnage ships passing through the canal and shall
n s 0 Rss1
the original tax Of 10 francs ton only shall
The aooyenamed dlminution Of the surta1 shall be
on the ysar yea the ba 1pd e
tons within year the year following the surtax shall
exceed TWO francs per Ton, anu so 30 ehcn
% Of 90 Of the sSrtsx for year following and
s1Sn Sns sss s I
abolished and the original tax not exceeding 10 francs
t is' IS iurshsr % Ss undetood a. that whenever the
o
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amount nss sonsgs % passing through ths canal shsI
f. :nd s g
poses Of the aurtax.
Vessels 9i wsr vessels OF chartered tor
daes than % The the tax q ID francs pe net
After the commission had expressed the above
opinion In its nineteenth meeting, the First Dele
gate Of Turkey made the two following declara-
First that the sunor e & eyy suEtsa Gf cne franz
future Of the passage through canal
I'll sn, Sss?o RIless
@ as on q
coming understanding with the principal Powers
The delegates OF Great Britain Italy, Spain, Bel
| gium, Austro- hungary. Germany, Turkey, France,
and e
BY their governments to accept the provisions OF
delegates Of Holland declared that they were nke.
wise SO authorized by their government but
under the reserves which they had already made
on certain points.
This report is drawn up and signed at Constan-
tinOple this day, the e-lSth December, 1873 C2S
Chewal, 1290}.
GG1aahsasKEk GG1aahsasKEkAvzs Delegates for Germany
zAMxRA;. Delegates for AustroHune.ry
CAMILLE JANSEN, Delegate for Bepium.
F6aokks, FF6SaAo5kAk Spanish pelesaseA
srSGA1. ReTsn HA'Hil' Delegates for Frsoce
sR3kcSs ssFR1kkGcsSs British Delegates
ANARGYhOS, Delegate for Greece.
SSSAaESSSEsr, SAsESS}Es Delegates for Italy.
RKAhSGSNsSN' KhGN Delegates for Holland.
kngGHIkoSE kaISC suE5sER' Delegates for Russia.
HEIDENsTAM, s an, Delegate for Sweden and Norway.