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Page 8 - Alexander, chairman of the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives...
Page 171 - Ports of the United States and Canada, who, from the 15th February, 1911, to the 31st December, 1911, may have found it to their interest to confine their support and shipments to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.
Page 39 - ... vessels other than those despatched by the under-named, and also provided that the Statement of Claim for such commission shall be made in the annexed form, within twelve months of the date of shipment, to the Line which shall have carried the goods in respect of which the Commission is claimed. "3. The above commission is not payable on the goods of any Consignee who directly or indirectly imports goods by vessels other than those despatched by the under-named Lines. " (Subscribed) AMERICAN...
Page 116 - Annual Statement of the Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom for the year 1884.
Page 219 - Lines will not prejudice the shippers' claims to rebate. 8. All disputes arising upon this agreement shall be referred to arbitration in London under the terms of the Arbitration Act, 1889. In any such arbitration all protests, certificates of brokers, surveys and other mercantile documents shall be admitted in evidence for what they are worth. Dated , 1909. CLAIM FOR REBATE.
Page 54 - ... settlements are made at the end of each year. "(4) Each line undertakes to arrange its rates and service in such manner that the number of steerage passengers it actually carries shall correspond as nearly as possible with the number allotted to it by the contract. If any line exceeds its proportion it is in duty bound to adopt measures calculated to bring about a correct adjustment. The other lines may either await the action of the individual line, or a majority of the lines representing 75...
Page 80 - The Honorable the SECRETARY OF STATE, Washington. SIR: I have the honor to inclose...
Page 219 - ... 14 days from the date of notice. 6. In case the lines fail to supply the available tonnage required at the above rates of freight by their own or chartered steamers within a reasonable time, say 14 days from the date of request, or if their current rate be not in accordance with what is stipulated in clauses 2 and 3 of this agreement, the...
Page 219 - It is understood and agreed that the shippers will not offer, directly or indirectly, any chartered tonnage of theirs to other shippers at a lower rate of freight than their own charter rate. 7. Until further notice any shipments by steamers of the National Brazilian Line, under the Brazilian flag, to the United States...
Page 56 - Hamburg. 2. North German Lloyd, in Bremen. 3. Holland-America Steamship Co., in Rotterdam. 4. Red Star Line, in Antwerp. The following freight agreement has been arrived at to-day: 1. The purpose of this freight agreement is to bring about a mutual understanding regarding freight rates to be maintained on a corresponding basis and to preserve to each separate company -its share of the total income from Uie freight traffic.