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Sec. 6. In case any such person for whom commutation money has been paid as aforesaid, shall at any time, within three years from the payment of such money, become chargeable upon any city, town, or county within this State, it shall be the duty of the said superintendents to provide for the payment of any expenses incurred by any such city, town, or county, for the maintenance and support of any such person, out of the commutation to be paid as aforesaid, so far as the same will enable them to do so. The said, superintendents shall prescribe such rules and regulations as they shall deem proper, for the purpose of ascertaining the right, and the amount of the claim of any city, town, or county, to indemnity under this and the preceding section of this act.

Sec. 7. If any master or commander, as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to pay over to the said treasurer such sum of money as is hereinbefore required for commutation money, for each and every such person, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of such vessel at such port or landing, every such commander, and the owner or owners of such ship or vessel, severally and respectively, shall be subject to a penalty of $75 for each and every person or passenger on whose account such commutation money may have been required, to be sued for in the manner hereinafter provided.

Sec. 8. The penalties and forfeitures prescribed by this act, may be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, by either of the overseers of the poor of the city or town where such money ought to be paid, in the name of the superintendents of the poor of the said county, in any court having cognizance thereof; and, when recovered, shall be applied to the purpose specified in this act.

Sec. 9. Any ship or vessel whose master or commander, owner or owners, shall have incurred any penalty or forfeiture under the provisions of this act, shall be liable for such penalties or forfeitures, which shall be a lien upon such ship or vessel, and may be enforced and collected by warrant of attachment in the same manner as is provided in title eight of chapter eight, of the third part of the Revised Statutes-all the provisions of which title shall apply to the forfeitures and penalties imposed by this act; and the said superintendents shall, for the purposes of such attachment, be deemed creditors of such ship or vessel, and of her master or commander, and owner or owners respectively.

Sec. 10. This act shall take effect immediately.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS AT NAPLES.

F. Engle, commander of the United States ship Princeton, in a letter to the Hon. John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, dated October 15th, 1847, says:

"Merchantmen from our ports should always get a certificate of health from the consul of the nation for which they sail. When I was at Gibraltar, a vessel arrived from Boston, and was not only refused pratique, but was ordered off because she was at New Orleans on a former voyage. These vessels go to Malta or Barcelona, and are at once admitted, and return to Gibraltar."

We subjoin a letter from Alexander Hammett, Esq., United States Consul, addressed to F. Engle, Esq., of the Princeton, transmitted to the Secretary of the Navy by the commander of that ship:

UNITED STATES CONSULATE, NAPLES, October 22, 1847.

DEAR SIR:-Having applied to the health office for the information asked for in your letter of the 21st inst., I have received for answer, that from the ports of the Archipelago there is free pratique; but that, from the 15th of November next, a certificate from a consul of His Majesty will be required that there has been no case of cholera. From the ports of the Adriatic, twenty-one days, and for merchandise susceptible of contagion, twenty-one days in the Lazaretto of Nisita; from Tunis, fourteen days for vessels, and fourteen days for merchandise; Tangier, seven days, and fourteen days for merchandise susceptible; Algiers, free pratique; the Empire of Morocco, fourteen days for vessels, and twenty-one days for articles of merchandise susceptible of contagion. It will always be necessary to have a certificate from the Neapolitan Consul of the good health of the port. From the ports of the United States there is no quarantine fixed, though pratique has been suspended. Every case of an arrival will need a report of the circumstances to be decided on by the Board. The cholera is in the Southern ports of Russia, and in the Black Sea, and vessels from hence are refused.

ALEXANDER HAMMETT.

F. ENGLE, Esq., Commanding United States Steamer Princeton.

All vessels from New Orleans, or from ports in the vicinity, are refused. Cotton from there has to go through the same process as if from Havana or Vera Cruz-that is, exF. ENGLE.

posed at the Lazaretto to air.

Hon. J. Y. MASON, Secretary of the Navy.

TARE OF THE GERMAN CUSTOMS UNION

UPON TOBACCO, RICE, COFFEE, ETC.

The following extract of a letter, dated Schwerin, Germany, October 20th, 1847, received at the Department of State, was originally published in the Washington Union:

"I should acquaint you with the existing tare established by the German Customs Union upon tobacco imported in hogsheads, and rice in tierces, as I ascertained it to be upon the frontiers of the Duchy of Brunswick, when journeying to this place a few days ago.

"The tare on a hogshead of tobacco is 12 per cent. If the hogshead should weigh over 12 per cent for the quantity of tobacco contained in it, the additional weight pays duty at the rate of 5 Prussian thalers per roll centner-equal to about $3 33 per 100 lbs. Hogsheads which contain 1,000 lbs. tobacco, weigh, in the aggregate, I have been told-some more, and some much less-200 lbs.; consequently, 80 lbs. of wood, or of hogshead, pays tobacco duty amounting to $2 68 40-100 cents.

"This extra tax upon their staple product the planters may avoid, by making their hogsheads uniformly of the same size-not to exceed in weight, if they are to hold 1,000 lbs. of tobacco, 120 lbs. This, if they would be good, would insure sufficient strength.

"The Zoll-Verein imported, during the year 1846, 29,000 hogsheads of tobacco and stems. If, therefore, a duty of 20 per cent, instead of 12 per cent, was realized for tare, our staple was taxed unnecessarily $77,731 75.

"The tare allowed on rice, in tierces, entering the States of the Zoll-Verein, is 13 per cent. It is to the interest of the producers of rice in the United States, to be careful that there should be no excess of tare beyond this, inasmuch as they have a formidable competitor in Holland in the German markets. The Java rice is all imported in bags, upon which a tare of 4 per cent is allowed in the Zoll-Verein. This, the Dutch, with their habitual good economy, avoid exceeding."

MODIFICATION OF THE MEXICAN TARIFF.

By a circular from the United States Treasury Department, the following modifications, in some of its details, have been approved by the President of the United States; and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy have been directed to carry them into effect:

"That the duty on silk, flax, hemp or grass, cotton, wool, worsted, or any manufactures of the same, or of either, or mixtures thereof; coffee, teas, sugar, molasses, tobacco, and all manufactures thereof, including cigars and cigaritos; glass, china, and stone ware, iron and steel, and all manufactures of either, not prohibited, be 30 per cent, ad valorem. On copper, and all manufactures thereof; tallow, tallow-candles, soap, fish, beef, pork, hams, bacon, tongues, butter, lard, cheese, rice, Indian corn and meal, potatoes, wheat, rye, oats, and all other grain, rye meal, and oat meal, flour, whale and sperm oil, clocks, boots and shoes, pumps, bootees and slippers, bonnets, hats, caps, beer, ale, porter, cider, timber, boards, planks, scantling, shingles, laths, pitch, tar, rosin, turpentine, spirits of turpentine, vinegar, apples, ship bread, hides, leather, and manufactures thereof, and paper of all kinds, 20 per cent ad valorem; and these reduced rates shall also apply to all goods, on which the duties are not paid, remaining not exceeding ninety days in deposit in the Mexican ports, introduced under previous regulations enforcing military contributions."

POSTAL REGULATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND THE U. STATES. The Postmaster-General of the United States publishes, under date November 5th, 1847, the following circular :

"The British government having seen fit to charge with full postage across the Atlantic the mail matter which was actually conveyed across it by the United States mail steamer Washington, it becomes necessary, as a measure of self-protection, that this government should take the steps therein authorized for terminating the subsisting arrangement between the two countries in relation as well to British mails in transit through this country for their colonial possessions on this continent, as the ordinary mail intercourse between those possessions and the United States. This was accordingly done; and those arrangements will, in consequence, terminate on the 16th day of November, 1847.

"The necessary result will be, that, on and after the 16th inst., no mail matter, destined for any of the British possessions on this continent, will be permitted to leave the United States, unless the United States postage thereon is previously fully paid.

CAVE JOHNSON, Postmaster-General."

RAILROAD, CANAL, AND STEAMBOAT STATISTICS.

BALTIMORE AND SUSQUEHANNAH RAILROAD.

THIS road, opened in 1838, extends from Baltimore to Columbia, a distance of 71 miles. It cost, including Westminster Branch, $3,370,000. The number of shares is 9,000, and the par value $50. The heavy T rail is used, weighing 60 pounds to the yard. The following table exhibits the distances, rates of fare, &c., on this road :

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The rates of freight on this road are, for coal, $1 371 per ton; iron, $1 84 per ton; lumber, $1 75 per 1,000 feet; corn and grain, $2 20 per ton; salt and butter, $2 per ton; groceries, sugar, dry-goods, and light and bulky merchandise, $2 per ton, through. Parcels are charged 25 cents each; horses, $3 75 each to York or Columbia; two and four-wheeled carriages, $3 37, through.

From the Twelfth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Susquehannah Railroad Company for the year ending the 30th of September, 1847, we gather the following particulars:

The gross receipts of the Company from the transportation of passengers and merchandise between Baltimore and Columbia, during the past year, amount to $256,913 58, being an increase of $46,278 39 over those of the preceding twelve months. The expenses of the transportation department during the same period have been $171,901 49, or an increase of $17,475 26 over those of the preceding year. These statements exhibit a gain of receipts from transportation of 22 per cent over those of the previous year, and an increase of expenditure of a fraction over 10 per cent.

The number of passengers carried between Baltimore and York during the past year, is 92,686-an increase of 29,851, or nearly 50 per cent. The number carried on the Wrightsville road during the same period, is 22,665-an increase of 2,865 over the number carried in the year ending September 30, 1846. The freight passing over the road during the past and preceding year, was as follows:

Between Baltimore and York .....................lbs.

On the Wrightsville road.....

1846.

274,724,581

135,726,191

1847.

323,578,603

156,556,537

This statement exhibits an increase of tonnage on the road between Baltimore and York of 48,854,022 lbs., and on the Wrightsville road of 20,830,346.

The nett receipts of the Company from transportation during the past year, are $77,012 09; being an increase over the nett receipts from the same source during the previous year of $28,863 03. The debts of the Company, (exclusive of interest on loans for the construction of the road,) as shown by the last annual report, amounted, on the 10th of October, 1846, to the sum of $35,073 85. The indebtedness of the Company had been reduced, on the 7th October, 1847, to $2,801 25; showing a payment, during the past year, of $32,272 60 of pre-existing debts, exclusive of a payment of $43,000, made to the State of Maryland on account of arrears of interest due.

TOLLS ADOPTED BY THE SCHUYLKILL NAVIGATION COMPANY. The Board of Managers have adopted the following rates of toll, to be charged on their works during the year 1848:

ANTHRACITE COAL

To be charged per ton of 2,240 lbs., the weight to be ascertained by such means as may be adopted to secure accuracy, and 5 per cent allowance to be made therefrom for loss by wasteage. The toll to be computed from Mount Carbon for all coal coming from above that point, and to be charged proportionately for all distances carried on the canal.

For the months of March, April, and May...........

June and July.....

40 cents per ton. 50

August, September, October, November, December, 65

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES

To be charged per ton of 2,240 pounds.

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First Class-Limestone, iron ore, quarry spalls, rough stone, unwrought marble, sand, clay, gravel, rails, bark, and manure, 11⁄2 cents per ton per mile; but no charge will be made for any distance carried beyond 25 miles. Maximum toll on such articles for any distance, 37 cents per ton.

Second Class. Gypsum, cordwood, timber, lumber, hoop poles, hay and straw in bales,

bricks and bituminous coal

Between Philadelphia and Mount Carbon.....

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Way trade, three-fourths of a cent per ton per mile; but no charge shall be made exceeding 75 cents per ton.

Third Class-Merchandise generally, such as dry-goods, earthenware, salt, iron in pigs, bars, or any stage of manufacture beyond the ore, nails, flour, grain, and all other articles not specifically enumerated in classes first and second, 2 cents per ton per mile for the first twenty miles carried, and three-fourths of a cent per ton per mile for any additional distance carried beyond twenty miles.

Note. In all cases where one or more locks are passed, and the distance carried shall be less than two miles, the charge for toll shall be for two miles, according to the class to which the articles carried may belong; and in all cases where the foregoing rates shall exceed 64 cents per ton on the ascertained tonnage of the vessel for any lock passed below Reading, or 4 cents per ton above Reading, the toll shall be charged at the mentioned` rates on all articles.

TOLL ON EMPTY BOATS.

Boats intended to be run regularly in the trade on the line of the canal will be licensed to pass the whole, or any part of the line empty, by the payment of ten dollars. The licenses will be issued by any collector, and will continue in force during the year 1848, provided the boat so licensed shall pay a sum in tolls equal to ten dollars per month. Boats not so licensed will be charged 5 cents per mile, unless they carry cargo which has paid five dollars in tolls.

Any boats not licensed as aforesaid, and running up a single level of the works, shall pay for each lock they may at any time pass, 4 cents per ton on the ascertained tonnage thereof above Reading, and 64 cents per ton below Reading.

CARS, BOATS, AND LANDINGS.

The Company will furnish cars, boats, and landings, and afford every facility for transporting coal to market at the most reasonable rates; and they are prepared to make contracts with operators, and others engaged in the coal trade, and with those who will build and run boats on the canal, on liberal terms. Applications on these subjects are to be made to the President of the Company, and they will receive prompt attention.

VOYAGES OF THE BRITISH MAIL STEAMERS.

STATEMENT OF THE VOYAGES MADE BY THE BRITISH ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS DURING THE YEAR

1847, SHOWING THE DATE OF ARRIVAL, LENGTH OF PASSAGE, PASSENGERS BROUGHT, ETC.

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NEW YORK RAILROAD COMPANIES AUTHORIZED TO BORROW MONEY. The following "Act to authorize certain railroad companies to issue stock, or to borrow money to lay a second track," passed the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York, November 27th, 1847, and is now in force:

Sec. 1. Each railroad company, embraced within the provisions of the first section of chapter two hundred and seventy-two, of the laws of 1847, is hereby authorized to increase its capital stock, or to borrow money on the security of its railroad appurtenances and franchises, as the directors of such company may determine, subject, however, to all previous encumbrances and debts in favor of this State and of individuals, to such an amount, subject to the limitation hereinafter expressed, as may be sufficient for the purpose of putting so much of its railroad, as such directors shall deem expedient, in a proper condition to receive a second track, of procuring iron for such track, and of laying the same with an iron rail, weighing not less than fifty-six pounds to the lineal yard; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize such an increase of stock or borrowing of money by such company, for any other than the aforesaid purpose, nor shall such money or stock be used for, or applied to any other purpose, nor shall the increase of stock or the money borrowed, by virtue of this section, exceed, in the aggregate, the sum of $10,000 for each mile of the railroad of such company, which it shall so put in a condition to receive such second track, for which it shall procure the iron for such track, and on which it shall lay such second track with a heavy rail as aforesaid.

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