TABLE 1.-CONTINUED.

Statement showing the Number and Class of Vessels Built, and the Tonnage thereof, in the several States and Territories of the United States, from 1815 to 1874, inclusive.

The tonnage is given in accordance with the new measurement from 1866, that mode having been adopted in 1865. In some of the other returns several years elapsed before uniformity in this respect was secured.

TABLE II.

Statement exhibiting the Amount of Tonnage of the United States Merchant Marine annually from 1789 to 1873, inclusive.

* Vessels are registered for foreign traffic and the whale-fishery, and enrolled and licensed for coast and inland (river and lake) trade and for the cod- and mackerel-fisheries.

This includes licensed vessels under 20 tons burden, which are kept separate in the government account, but included in the totals. The tonnage of these amounted to 9203 in 1793 and 22,527 in 1794. The highest point reached by it was 66,602 tons, in 1828, and of late years its average has been in the neighborhood of 50,000 tons.

Steam tonnage of both classes is included in this total as well as in each class. Special statistics will be given in Table III.

TABLE II.-CONTINUED.

Statement exhibiting the Amount of Tonnage of the United States Merchant Marine annually from 1789 to 1873, inclusive.

* Vessels are registered for foreign traffic and the whale-fishery, and enrolled and licensed for coast and inland (river and lake) trade and for the cod- and mackerel-fisheries.

†This includes licensed vessels under 20 tons burden, which are kept separate in the government account, but included in the totals. The tonnage of these amounted to 9203 in 1793 and 22,527 in 1794, The highest point reached by it was 66,602 tons, in 1828, and of late years its average has been in the neighborhood of 50,000 tons.

Steam tonnage of both classes is included in this total as well as in each class. Special statistics will be given in Table III.

TABLE II.-CONTINUED.

Statement exhibiting the Amount of Tonnage of the United States Merchant Marine annually from 1789 to 1874, inclusive.

* Vessels are registered for foreign traffic and the whale-fishery, and enrolled and licensed for coast and inland (river and lake) trade and for the cod- and mackerel-fisheries.

+ This includes licensed vessels under 20 tons burden, which are kept separate in the government account, but included in the totals. The tonnage of these amounted to 9203 in 1793 and 22,527 in 1794. The highest point reached by it was 66,602 tons, in 1828, and of late years its average has been in the neighborhood of 50,000 tons.

Steam tonnage of both classes is included in this total as well as in each class. Special statistics will be given in Table III.

? New measurement.

[Old measurement.

¶ New measurement from 1869. It was introduced in 1865, but a portion of the returns were made In the old measurement for several years, as is indicated in the table.

TABLE III.

Statement exhibiting the Amount of Steam Tonnage of the United States Merchant
Marine annually from 1823 to 1874, inclusive.

TABLE III.-CONTINUED.

Statement exhibiting the Amount of Steam Tonnage of the United States Merchant Marine annually from 1823 to 1874, inclusive.

* New measurement from 1868, up to which date, as indicated by the table, a portion of the returns were made in the old measurement.

TABLE IV.

Annual Receipts, Expenditures and National Debt of the United States from March 4, 1789, to June 30, 1875.

* From March 4, 1789, to December 31, 1791. Fractions of a dollar are omitted throughout this

table.