The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-01-06

three shall be for q period of ons
year, and shall be renewed from time
to time, but no vessel shall receive
a subvention under the provisions 81
this act for a longer period than ten
years
Sections five and six authorize and
direct the Postmaster General TO en-
ter into contracts, for not less thai
five nor more than ten years, for the
carrying of mails in steamships built
and registered in the United states
and foreign ports, on the routes, 1T
the rates of speed and for the am
cunts following:
From a port of the Atlantic coast
to Brazil, on steamships of not less
than fourteen knots speed. for a mon
thly service at a maximum compensa-
ton not exceeding $15O.000 a year:
p%ensation not exceeding $500. 900 a
yer.
Atlantic coast port to Uruguay and
Argentina. fourteen knots speed mon
THY service s1s7.5oo; fo~rtnightly.
1915, 900.
Atlantic coast port to South Africa.
twelve knots speed, monthly service
s187 1900: fortnightly. $375,00
Gulf of Mexico port to Brazil. II
knots speed. monthly service $137 500
fortnigbtly $275,0O0.
Gulf port to Cuba. fourteen knots
speed, semi-weekly service, SIS 200.
Gulf port to Central America. twelve
knot speed. weekly service SIS, 900.
Gulf port to Mexico, twelve knots
speed, weekly service, $50, 200.
Pacific coast port, via. Hawaii. to
Japan. China and the Philippines. six
teen knots speed, monthly service
$500, 900; fortnightly $500, 000-
Pacific coast port to Japan. China
speed, monthly service, 1910 900;
fortnightly. $420. 600.
Pacific coast port to Mexico, Cen
trail America and the Isthmus of Pa
service $12o. 900.
The same requirement, as to the
enrolment of naval volunteers, is
made of steamships obtaining such
mail contracts, as is exacted of ves
sells obtaining s~ubvention.
The tonnage tax on foreign vessels
entered in United States ports is pro-
vided for in section eight, as follows:
That a duty of eight cents per net
ton, not to exceed in the aggregate
eighty cents per net ton in any one
year. is hereby imposed at each entry
by sea or all vessels which shall be
States from any foreign port or place
in North America. Central America,
the West India Islands, the Bahama
Islands, the Bermuda Islands, the
coast of South America bordering OF
the Caribbean sea, or Newfoundland;
and a duty of sixteen cents per net
ton, not to exceed in the aggregate
one dollar and sixty cents per net
ton in any n year, Is hereby impos-
ed at each entry by sea on all vessels
which shall be entered in any port
of the United States from any other
foreign port or place, not however.
to include vessels in distress OF not
engaged in trade"
Section nine relates to apprentices
and provides the following:
That on proof to the satisfaction
of the Commissioner of Navigation
that a vessel of the United States has
on any foreign voyage carried a boy
or boys, a citizen or citizens of the
United States. under twenty-one years
of age, suitably trained during that
voyage in seamanship or engineering,
in the proportion OF n for such yes
sci, and in addition one for each thou
sand tons of her net registered ton
mage, there shall be paid to the own
er or owners of the vessel, u of
any money in the Treasury not other
wis appropriated, an allowance equiv
alent to eighty per centum of the
tonnage duties paid in respect of the
entry in the United States of that
vessel from hat voyage. Such pay
ment shall not be made after July
1st, 1907, except in respect of any
boy who is enrolled in the naval vol
unteers. or is an apprentice linden
tured in accordance with law"
Section ten repeats all conflicting
cts and section eleven fixes July 1.
1905, as the time the proposed legis-
lation shall take effect.
Leading up to the new legislation
proposed for the development of the
merchant marine the commission has
reviewed extensively the character
of its investigations. It's deduction is
hat immediate action by congress is
necessary to prevent a complete par