(G) The world's large and fast ocean steamships-Classification, by owners, flag, and speed. (H) Progress of British, German, and Japanese shipping. (I) British shipping policy-(1) British ocean-mail payments for 1907-8; (2) Foreign and colonial packet service, 1840-41 to 1907-8; (3) British reserve merchant cruisers; (4) British naval reserve appropriations. (J) Registered steam vessels of the United States on June 30, 1908. (K) Statistics of square-rigged American vessels. (L) Statistics relating to steerage passengers arriving at New York during the year ended June 30, 1908. (M) Statistics relating to the enforcement of the navigation and inspection laws. (N) Miscellaneous-(1) Foreign carrying trade of the United States, 18211908; (2) Tonnage of American and foreign vessels entered and cleared in the foreign trade of the United States, fiscal years 1821-1908. STATISTICAL TABLES. (1) Number and gross tonnage of documented vessels of the United States, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (2) Number and gross tonnage of documented vessels of the United States, by States and Territories, June 30, 1908. (3) Number and gross tonnage of documented steam vessels of the United States, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (4) Number and gross tonnage of documented metal vessels of the United States, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (5) Number and gross tonnage of documented steam metal vessels of the United States, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (6) Class, number, and gross tonnage of metal vessels of the United States, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (7) Number and gross tonnage of each class of documented wooden and metal vessels of the United States, June 30, 1908. (8) Balance sheet of tonnage accounts, showing the increase and decrease in documented vessels, June 30, 1908. (9) Balance sheet of tonnage accounts, showing the increase and decrease in each class of vessels, June 30, 1908. (10) Documented sailing and steam tonnage constituting the total merchant marine of the United States, 1789-1908. (10a) Number and gross tonnage of canal boats and barges documented in the United States, 1868-1908. (106) Number and gross tonnage of sailing vessels, steam vessels, canal boats, and barges documented on the northern lakes, 1868-1908. (11) Number and gross tonnage of sailing vessels, steam vessels, canal boats, and barges in the United States, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (12) Number and gross tonnage of sailing vessels, steam vessels, canal boats, and barges in the United States, by States, June 30, 1908. (13) Sailing and steam vessels of the United States, according to size, June 30, 1908. (14) Number and gross tonnage of vessels of the United States engaged in the cod and mackerel fisheries, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (15) Number and gross tonnage of vessels of the United States engaged in the whale fisheries, by ports, June 30, 1908. (16) Employment of the tonnage of the United States, by classes, June 30, 1908. (17) Documented tonnage of the United States merchant marine employed in the foreign trade, the coasting trade, and the fisheries, 1789-1908. (18) Class, number, and gross tonnage of vessels built in the United States and documented during year ended June 30, 1908, by customs districts. (19) Class, number, and gross tonnage of sailing vessels built in the United States and documented, June 30, 1908. (20) Class, number, and gross tonnage of steam vessels built in the United States and documented, June 30, 1908. (21) Class, number, and gross tonnage of steel vessels built in the United States and documented during the year ended June 30, 1908. (22) Class, number, and gross tonnage of vessels built in the United States and documented, 1797-1908. (23) Number and gross tonnage of vessels built in the United States and documented, 1857-1908. (24) Class, number, and gross tonnage of metal vessels built in the United States and documented, 1838-1908. (25) Tonnage of vessels of the United States which have been built, admitted to registry by acts of Congress, etc., and those which have been lost, abandoned, sold to aliens, etc., 1813-1908. (26) Class, number, and gross tonnage of documented yachts of the United States, by ports, June 30, 1908. (27) Class, number, and gross tonnage of documented metal yachts of the United States, by ports, June 30, 1908. (28) Class, number, and gross tonnage of yachts built in the United States and documented, by customs districts, June 30, 1908. (29) Class, number, and gross tonnage of metal yachts built in the United States and documented, by ports, June 30, 1908. (30) Class, number, and gross tonnage of documented yachts lost, abandoned, sold to aliens, etc., year ended June 30, 1908. REPORT OF THE SUPERVISING INSPECTOR-GENERAL, STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE, Washington, November 30, 1908. SIR: I have the honor to submit to you the following report of the Steamboat-Inspection Service for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, as required by section 4403, Revised Statutes, and under Department regulations relating thereto. PERSONNEL. The personnel of this Service at the close of the fiscal year consisted of 243 officers and clerks and 1 messenger, as follows: At Washington, the Supervising Inspector-General, a chief clerk (who is Acting Supervising Inspector-General in the absence of that officer), 5 clerks, and 1 messenger; and the Service at large, consisting of 10 supervising inspectors, 44 local inspectors of hulls, 44 local inspectors of boilers, 41 assistant inspectors of hulls, 43 assistant inspectors of boilers, and 63 clerks to supervising and local inspectors. During the year the salaries of 21 clerks were increased in an aggregate amount of $2,700; 3 clerks resigned; 1 supervising inspector, 2 assistant inspectors of hulls, and 1 clerk were removed; 3 assistant inspectors of hulls, 2 assistant inspectors of boilers, and 7 clerks were appointed; 5 clerks and 2 assistant inspectors were transferred to other offices in the Service. There were no deaths in the Service during the year. Additions to the official force of the Service during the year were 2 clerks at New York, N. Y.; 1 assistant_inspector of boilers at Boston, Mass., detailed to Providence, R. I.; I assistant inspector of hulls and 1 assistant inspector of boilers at New Orleans, La. |