tonnage dues

In subsequent years, Stirling further expanded his activity and by 1802 he was paying 75% of the tonnage dues on the canal.

The second was a trade treaty that outlawed the trade of opium and set tonnage dues and tariffs to be the same for both nations.

He also abolished tariffs, duty on the postage of newspapers and tonnage dues at Newcastle, Wollongong and Kiama.

The TRR had higher than average freight tonnage due to building of the automobile causeway to LBI.

With the increase of trade, due to the economic boom of those years, the problem became eminent of overly shallow water for vessels of larger tonnage due to siltation and mud carried by the river Pescara.

The town petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts (the Legislature, not a court) for permission to levy tonnage dues, and, beginning August 1, 1774, it was ordered that any vessel over 15 tons was subject to a charge of 6 shillings the first time each year it entered or left Nantucket Harbor.