Archive Record

Metadata

Item ID#

A2021.024.222

Title

Tonnage

Object Name

File, Document

Dates of Creation

[reproduced 198-?]

Creator

National Archives and Records Service

Description

Documents detailing laws and regulations surrounding vessel building, documentation, statistics, and records descriptions.

Included in this folder are photocopies of the following:
- First Congress, Session 1, chapter 11, 1789
- Acts of the Second Congress of the United States, Statues II
- Builder's Old Measurements
- General tonnage terms
- Act of 1773 (builders old measurements)
- Act of 1835 (new measurement)
- Merchant Shipping Act 1854
- United States, Act of August 4, 1790
- Act of May 6, 1864
- Chapter 2 of "Tonnage of Ships"
- 38th congress, Session 1, Chapter 82, 83, 1864
- The Merchant Shipping Act 1854
- United States Act of 1864: An act to regulate the Admeasurement of tonnage of ships and vessels of the United States
- The Admeasurement of Shipping "Hunt's Merchant Magazine July 1858"

Collection

Arthur Amos shipwreck research collection

Marine Heritage Centre

Ontario Marine History and Underwater Archaeology Research Centre

System of arrangement

This item is part of the Arthur Amos Shipwreck Collection, Series 6 (Arthur Amos research folders).

Parent Object

AASRC S6

Level of Description

Item

Physical Description

1.5 cm of textual records

Restrictions on Use

Responsibility for determining the copyright status and permissible use rests with the user.

Places

United States

Search Terms & Subjects

Legislation
Marine
Shipbuilding
Ships