Industrial Cuba: Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and Labour

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 428 páginas

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Página 207 - Articles the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, when returned after having been exported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means...
Página 11 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said Island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the Island to its people.
Página 206 - Rico exempt from the duties stipulated in the tariffs on compliance with the prescribed conditions and the formalities established for every case in the customs ordinances : 344.
Página 414 - Vol. I. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776. Vol. II. From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783. Vol. III. The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790. Vol. IV. Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1809.
Página 362 - The officer of the Army of the United States in command at any port of Cuba in possession of the United States is empowered to issue a permit to a resident of Cuba who owns a vessel, which shall entitle such vessel to engage in the coasting trade of the island...
Página 361 - The tonnage tax on entries of a vessel from a port or place not in Cuba shall not exceed in the aggregate $2 per net ton in any one year, beginning from the date of the first payment. The tonnage tax on entries of a vessel from other ports or places in Cuba...
Página 156 - There are 17,259 houses, of which 15,494 are one-story, 1,552 are two stories, 186 are three stories, and only 27 are four stories, with none higher. At least 12 in every 13 inhabitants live in one-story houses; and as the total civil, military, and transient population exceeds 200,000 there are more than 12 inhabitants to every house. Tenement houses may have many small rooms, but each room is occupied by a family. Generally the onestory houses have four or five rooms; but house rent, as also food...
Página 217 - Velvety tissues, such as corduroys and velveteens; three-ply plush tissues, cut or not, N. W kilog..
Página 156 - ... the pavement, but in Havana, and more frequently in other Cuban towns, one often encounters houses which are entered by stepping down from the sidewalk, and some floors are even below the level of the street. In Havana some of the floors, in Matanzas more, in Cardenas and Cienfuegos many are of the bare earth itself, or of planks raised only a few inches above the damp ground.
Página 207 - ... peseta). The metrical system of weights and measures is in use in Cuba. Importations from the United States are dutiable like other commodities. CLASS I.— STONES, EARTHS, ORES, GLASS, AND CERAMIC PRODUCTS GROUP I.

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