RATES OF TOLL ON THE NEW YORK CANALS, 1841. At a meeting of the Canal Board, at the Canal Room, in the city of Albany, on the 13th April, 1841, the following rates of toll were established on persons and property transported on all the canals of the state, excepting the Genesee Valley, for the year 1841. ARTICLES. Provisions, &c. 1. On flour, salted beef and pork, butter, cheese, tallow, lard, beer and cider, per 1000 pounds per mile,. 2. On bran and ship-stuffs in bulk, per 1000 pounds per mile,.. Iron, Minerals, Ores, &c. 3. On salt manufactured in this state, per 1000 pounds per mile,.... 4. On foreign salt, per 1000 pounds per mile,.................. cts. m. fr. 045 4 5 023 3 0 0 5. 1st. On gypsum, the product of this state, per 1000 pounds per mile,........ 0 2 3 2d. On foreign gypsum, per 1000 pounds per mile,... 6. On brick, sand, lime, clay, earth, leached ashes, manure, 1000 pounds per mile,........ and iron ore, per 7. On pot and pearl ashes, kelp, charcoal, pig iron, broken castings and scrap iron, per 1000 pounds per mile,................. 4 5 023 0 4 5 8. 1st. On mineral coal going towards tide water, or going north on the 9. On stove and all other iron castings, per 1000 pounds per mile,................ 11. On bar and pig lead, going towards tide water, per 1000 pounds per mile, 12. On furs and peltry, (except deer, buffalo, and moose skins,) per 1000 13. On deer, buffalo, and moose skins, per 1000 pounds per mile,.. 15. On imported raw hides, of domestic and other animals, per 1000 pounds Furniture, &c. 16. On household furniture, accompanied by, and actually belonging to, families emigrating, per 1000 pounds per mile,... 17. On carts, wagons, sleighs, ploughs, and mechanics' tools, necessary for the owners' individual use, when accompanied by the owner, emigrating for the purpose of settlement, per 1000 pounds per mile,..... Stone, Slate, &c. 0 4 5 0 4 5 045 0 2 0 1 00 050 0 4 5 050 0 4 5 0 4 5 18. On slate and tile for roofing, and stone ware, per 1000 pounds per mile,... 0 4 5 19. On all stone, wrought or unwrought, per 1000 pounds per mile,. 20. On timber, squared and round, per 100 cubic feet per mile, if carried in boats,...... 050 21. On the same, if carried in rafts, (except docksticks, as in next item,) per 100 cubic feet per mile, 22. On round dock-sticks, passing in cribs separate from every other kind of 23. On blocks of timber for paving streets, per 1000 pounds per mile,........ sure, ...... 2d. On the same, if transported in rafts, per 1000 feet per mile,..... 25. On mahogany, (except veneering,) reduced to inch measure, per 1000 feet per mile,..... 26. On sawed lath, of less than five feet in length, split lath, hoop-poles, handspikes, rowing oars, broom-handles, spokes, hubs, tree-nails, felloes, and "boat knees," per 1000 pounds per mile,....... cts. m. fr. 2251 00000 27. On staves and heading, transported in boats, per 1000 pounds per mile,... 0 30. On the same, if conveyed in rafts, per M. per mile,........ 31. On split posts, (not exceeding 10 feet in length,) and rails for fencing, (not exceeding 14 feet in length,) per M. per mile, carried in boats,... 32. On the same, if conveyed in rafts, per M. per mile..................... 2 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 2 0 0 8 0 0 2 33. On wood for fuel, (except such as may be used in the manufacture of salt, 36. On cotton and wool, per 1000 pounds per mile,................ 37. On live cattle, sheep and hogs, per 1000 pounds per mile,.............. 38. On horses, (and each horse, when not weighed, to be computed at 900 pounds,) per 1000 pounds per mile,.......... 39. On rags, per 1000 pounds per mile,.. 0 0 0 0 050 0 4 5 045 0 5 0 0 4 5 40. On hemp, Manilla and unmanufactured tobacco, per 1000 pounds per mile, 04 5 023 04 5 090 Articles not enumerated. 44. On all articles not enumerated or excepted, passing from tide water, per 1000 pounds per mile,...... 090 45. On all articles not enumerated or excepted, passing towards tide water, per thousand pounds per mile,............... Boats and Passengers. 045 500 46. On boats used chiefly for the transportation of persons, navigating any of 50. On articles of the manufacture of the United States, going towards tide During the present year, there shall be allowed a drawback of seventy-three per cent on the amount of tolls paid on the transportation of mineral coal from the west to tide water or to the Junction canal, provided such coal shall be delivered at tide water, or at some point on the Junction canal or on the Champlain canal; and the like drawback shall be allowed of seventy-three per cent on the amount of tolls paid on the transportation of anthracite coal from tide water to Utica, which shall be delivered at that place, or at any point west thereof; the amount of such drawback to be refunded to the persons paying the said tolls, under the direction of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund, on the production of such evidence as they shall prescribe, of the said tolls having been paid, and of the delivery of such coal as herein provided. It will be perceived from the above that the rates of toll on "coal," "pressed hay," "split posts and rails for fencing," packet boats and passengers, have been modified. The former regulations of the board in relation to monthly statements and commutation toll on passengers have been repealed, and hereafter all boats running night and day will be required to pay the toll on passengers at the termination of each trip. V. TEN EYCK, Clerk. RAILROAD AND CANAL STATISTICS. TABULAR STATEMENT OF THE COST, TOTAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES, FOR THE LAST ELEVEN YEARS, OF THE SEVERAL FINISHED LINES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CANALS AND RAILROADS. .54 COST OF RAILROADS COMPLETED IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Utica and Schenectady,. Cost per mile. ..78 miles long,......$1,901,785......$24,380 66 Syracuse and Auburn,..... 1,000,000...... 18,518 575,400. 19,180 Troy and Ballston,.. .231 66 450,000...... 20,454 The first four of these roads are graded for a double track. The cost of the Utica and Schenectady railroad includes all the charges incidental to construction account from the commencement up to January 1, 1841. In the above table of railroads in this state, the cost of the Harlem, and the Mohawk and Hudson, are not included. The former has a very expensive tunnel, and is in every other respect much above the cost of any other road, completed or in contemplation. The latter was the pioneer road, and could now be constructed for, at most, one half of its original cost. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE, RATES OF PILOTAGE FOR THE PORT OF BALTIMORE, Condensed, with other matter appertaining thereto, from various Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland. For every vessel, either drawing 9 feet water or upwards, or measuring 75 tons, customhouse tonnage, coming from the sea to the city of Baltimore, per foot, $3 50 For every vessel of like draft, from Baltimore to sea,..... For the months of December, January, February, and March, in addition to every foot such vessel draws,...... 2 50 75 Every master or owner of a merchant vessel going to sea, whether sailing under a coasting license or registered, of the burden of one hundred and twenty tons and upwards, shall be obliged to receive the first pilot who offers to conduct or pilot his vessel, and shall continue the same pilot to the capes, or shall pay to him half pilotage; provided the said pilot shall speak or board said vessel above Fort McHenry, and shall be duly licensed to act as pilot; and provided further, that the pilot who shall have conducted any vessel from the capes into port shall be entitled to take charge of the same vessel as pilot to the capes, on her next voyage. Any master or owner of a merchant vessel, sailing under a coasting license or registered, of the burden of one hundred tons and upwards, coming from sea, shall be obliged to take the first pilot who shall offer to conduct or pilot his vessel, and shall continue the same to the port of destination, or shall pay to him half pilotage; provided, said pilot shall speak or board said vessel before Cape Henry lighthouse shall bear south; and provided also, the said pilot shall have a branch or license to the destined port of said vessel. The owners of all vessels of the burden of seventy-five tons and upwards, not exceeding one hundred tons, before going to sea, shall apply to the board of pilots for a license to navigate the Chesapeake Bay, and shall pay to the said board, for such license, at the rate of six cents per ton, and such license shall be good for twelve months. The master of any vessel, for which a license is made necessary by the preceding regulation, who shall navigate the same without such license, shall subject himself to receive a pilot upon the same terms as is provided for in the first regulation. LIGHTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF GOTTENBURG. Charles Tottie, Esq., in a communication dated London, (England,) March 5th, 1841, in a letter to the Swedish and Norwegian General Consulate, gives the following translation of an ordinance issued by the royal navy board, at Stockholm, on the 12th of January, 1841. First-That a lighthouse of stone has been erected on the island of Winga, situated outside the entrance to Gottenburg, in lat. 57° 37′ 30′′ N., lon. 29° 46′ E. of Ferro, in which lighthouse will be placed a standing Lentill light, of the third degree, whose light, when spread around the whole horizon, will be visible at a distance of three geographical, or German miles. Secondly-At the same time as the light at Winga shall be exhibited, auxiliary lights will be exhibited on the Bush Rock, (Buskaret,) and on the Bott Island, (Botto.) These two auxiliary lights will serve the navigator for his guidance when coming to an anchorage during the night in the channel leading to Gottenburg. Thirdly-Further information will be given when the time for the exhibition of these lights is definitively settled. Similar information has been received from our chargé d'affaires at Stockholm, and was published, under the direction of the department of state, April 26, 1841. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. FLOUR INSPECTIONS IN BALTIMORE FOR THE LAST FORTY-TWO YEARS. Account of Flour inspected in the city of Baltimore, per the inspector's quarterly returns, from 1798 to 1840, inclusive. 1800 Mar. 55,986 3,583 1800 Sept 42,693 2,312 1801 Mar. 90,471 3,333 1802 Mar. 64,231 2,423 1802 Sept 71,519 5,947 Dec. 126,312 7,005 1807 Mar. 115,780 5,759 June 126,181 5,745 1807 Sept 76,762 4,649 VOL. IV.NO. VI. |