ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK.

Statement exhibiting the Number and Nationality of Alien Immigrants admitted (exclusive of Transits) at the Port of New York during the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1906, distributed by countries whence they came. Prepared by the Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C.

RATES OF MARINE INSURANCE AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK.

THE following statement exhibits the rates of marine insurance charged by the underwriters on cargoes by vessels, sail and steam, sailing from and to the Port of New York, to and from domestic and foreign ports during the year 1906. Prepared under the direction of Mr. ANTON A. RAVEN, President of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company.

THE PORT OF NEW YORK-ITS BOUNDARIES AND PORT CHARGES.

THE PORT OF NEW YORK.-The Collection District of the City of New York, as defined by Section 2535, Revised Statutes :

"The District of the City of New York; to comprise all the waters and shores of the State of New York, and of the Counties of Hudson and Bergen in the State of New Jersey, not included in other districts; in which New York shall be the port of entry, and New Windsor, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Esopus, Kinderhook, Albany, Hudson, Troy, Rhinebeck Landing, Cold Spring, Port Jefferson, Saugerties, Patchogue, Jones' Point, Dodge's Yard, Port Eaton, (Eaton's Neck,) Barren Island, Hall's Yard, (Hackensack River,) Manhasset Bay, Rondout, Yonkers and Westchester ports of delivery; and Jersey City a port of entry and delivery with an assistant Collector to act under the Collector at New York.

RATES OF WHARFAGE IN FORCE JANUARY 1, 1907.-The following are the rates of wharfage chargeable within the City of New York, as established by Act of the Legislature:

NEW YORK CITY. - REGULAR WHARFAGE, two cents per ton up to two hundred tons, and one-half cent per ton for any excess over two hundred tons. If vessel occupies an outside berth, and is not working cargo or ballast, one-half of this rate.

FLOATING GRAIN ELEVATORS, half rates.

FLOATING STRUCTURES not otherwise provided for, double rates.

STATE TRAFFIC.-NORTH RIVER BARGES, MARKET BOATS AND BARGES, SLOOPS employed upon the rivers and waters of the State, and SCHOONERS employed exclusively upon the rivers and waters of the State, as follows:

For six hundred tons and upward, twelve and a half cents per fifty tons in excess of last rate.

CANAL BOATS, fifty cents loaded, thirty cents unloaded.

Vessels freighting brick upon the Hudson River, same rate.

CLAM AND OYSTER VESSELS, under two hundred tons, one and a half cent per ton for an inside berth and one cent per ton for an outside berth, but no vessel to pay less than twentyive cents per day, nor for less than one day.

LIGHTERS AND BARGES engaged in lightering freight in Harbor of New York, one cent per running foot, measured along the length of the vessel.

COAL HOISTS ON Scows OR FLOATS, WITH COAL HOPPER, ETC., one dollar per day.

COAL BOATS, engaged in transporting coal in the Harbor, fifty cents for boats one hundred and ten feet and under in length, and all boats over one hundred and ten feet in length one cent per running foot, said rates to apply to all coal boats whether light or loaded.

(Twenty-four hours constitute a day for canal boats, coal boats, brick vessels, clam and oyster vessels, etc.)

TOP WHARFAGE on merchandise five cents per ton.

(Accrues after the expiration of twenty-four hours from time of landing.)

PORT WARDEN CHARGES.-The following are the rates of charges to be collected by the Port Wardens, as established by Act of the Legislature:

"The said Board of Wardens shall be allowed for each and every survey held on board of any vessel, on hatches, stowage of cargo, or damaged goods, or at any warehouse, store or dwelling, or in the public street, or on the wharf, within the limits of the Port of New York, on goods said to be damaged, the sum of two dollars, and for each and every certificate given in consequence thereof, the sum of one dollar, and for each and every survey on the hull, sails, spars or rigging of any vessel damaged, or arriving at said port in distress, the sum of five dollars, and for each and every certificate given in consequence thereof, the sum of two dollars and Afty cents, and for each valuation or measurement of any vessel, the sum of ten dollars."

OTHER CHARGES.-The following Quarantine fees and tax on tonnage are paid on entering a vessel at the Custom House :

Health Officer's fees, each vessel...

$5.00

TAX ON TONNAGE.-That section fourteen of "An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty four, be amended so as to read as follows:

That in lieu of the tax on tonnage of thirty cents per ton per annum imposed prior to July

first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, a duty of three cents per ton, not to exceed in the aggregate fifteen cents per ton in any one year, is hereby imposed at each entry on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands. or the Coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or the Sandwich Islands, or Newfoundland; and a duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum. is hereby imposed at each entry upon all vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any other foreign ports, not, however, to include vessels in distress or not engaged in trade. Provided, That the President of the United States shall suspend the collection of so much of the duty herein imposed on vessels entered from any foreign port as may be in excess of the tonnage and lighthouse dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes imposed in said port on American vessels by the Government of the foreign country in which such port is situated, and shall, upon the passage of this act, and from time to time thereafter as often as it may become necessary by reason of changes in the laws of the foreign countries above mentioned, indicate by proclamation the ports to which such suspension shall apply, and the rate or rates of tonnage duty, if any, to be collected under such suspension. Provided, further, that such proclamation shall exclude from the benefits of the suspension herein authorized, the vessels of any foreign country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of the country in which such port is situated, or on the cargoes of such vessels; and sections forty-two hundred and twenty-three and forty-two hundred and twenty-four, and so much of section forty-two hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes as conflicts with this section, are hereby repealed.". (See Act of Congress of Juue 19, 1886, Section 11.)