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Definition of Tonnage duty
1. Noun. A tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonnage Duty
Literary usage of Tonnage duty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"For a brief period about 1645 a tonnage duty was levied by Massachusetts.1 In
1667 and 1679 that colony again levied a tonnage duty, making it payable in ..."
2. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897 by United States President (1897)
"On the 23d of January, 1804, the State of Virginia passed a law levying a tonnage
duty on vessels, '' for improving the navigation of James River. ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1852)
"Any tonnage duty or light money which may have been exacted contrary to tht-
tenor of the preceding instructions from Spanish vessels that may have arrived ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1852)
"Any tonnage duty or light money which may have been exacted contrary to the tenor
of the preceding instructions from Spanish vessels that may have arrived ..."
5. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1904)
"Our tonnage duty is a tax not divided and appropriated, like the light- money or
Trinity-dues in Great Britain, to specific and particular objects, ..."
6. The Constitution of the United States by United States, Robert Desty, Albert Brunner (1884)
"tonnage duty.—When a vessel, as an instrument of commerce, is required to pay a
duty as a condition to her entry or departure, loading or unloading, ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"L. Die. , Tonnage. Duty means tax, toll, impost, custom. Web. Die. The obvious
intent of this prohibition is, to forbid a tax upon vessels proportioned to ..."
8. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"tonnage duty. A "duty on tonnage" Is a duty or tax or burden Imposed under the
... A tonnage duty, as used in the federal Constitution prohibiting a state, ..."
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