Regulations of the Port.-If any master or captain of any ship or vessel, or other person, shail refuse or neglect to comply with the directions of the harbour master, in matters within the jurisdiction of his office, such person shall, for each and every such offence, sɛverally forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding 100 dollars. And the said harbour master, shall in full compensation for his services be entitled to have, recover, and receive from the master, captain, owner, or consignee of each and every ship or vessel arriving at the port of Philadelphia (casting vessels not exceeding the burden of 75 lors excepted) the sum of 1 dollar for each and every voyage by such ship or vessel performed, and no more. Every ship or vessel that may arrive in this harbour, and that shall come to anchor in the stream anywhere between Almond and Vine Streets, having previously caused her gunpowder, if any she had on board, to be landed as the law directs, may remain in that situation 24 hours, and no longer, taking care to lie as near to the island or sand bar as may be consistent with their safety. But if, from the circumstance of a vessel having servants on board, or from any other cause, it may be thought necessary or convenient to lie a longer time in the stream, then, aud in every such case, the owner, inaster, pilot, or other person having the charge or direction of such vessel, shall remove her from opposite the city, and shall moor her or cause her to be moored, to the northward of Vine Street, with 1 anchor and cable up, and 1 anchor and cable down the stream: and in both the above mentioned situations, the regulation contained in the next suc ceeding article to be duly attended to. If any vessel properly moored in the stream shall have her anchor or cable overlaid by any other vessel in anchoring or mooring, the master or person having the care or direction of such last-mentioned vessel shall immediately, or as soon as may be after application made to him by the party aggrieved, cause the said anchor or cable so overlaying to be taken up and cleared. When any ship or vessel shall be hauled in to any wharf or dock, or alongside of another vessel, that may be lying at such wharf or dock, the owner, master, pilot, or whoever may have the command, care, or direction of her, shall have her securely made fast, and if ou'side of another vessel, shall get one good fast from each end of the vessel to the shore, with sufficient fenders between them and the inside vessel; and shall cause the flukes of their anchors to be taken in board; and, within 24 hours thereafter, cause her jibboom, spritsail yard, main boom, spanker and ringtail booms, if any they have, to be rigged in, and their lower yards topped up, in such a manner as least to interfere with vessels passing. If the fasts of vessels when moored at a wharf shall extend across a dock, so as to obstruct the passing or repassing of shallops, lighter, or other craft or vessel, the master or other person having the com mand of such ship or vessel shall, upon the first application, immediately cause such fast or fasts to be cast off or slacked down." No outward-bound vessel, putting off from a wharf, shall lie longer in the stream between Vine Street and Almond, in the district of Southwark, above mentioned, than 24 hours. And if vessels lying at the end of wharfs so much interlock with each other as to prevent vessels hauling in and out of docks, the master, owner. pilot, or other person having the charge of the same, shall, immediately on application from any person so wanting to haul his vessel in or out of docks aforesaid, have the vessel or vessels so interfering, moved in such a manner as to accommodate the one applied for; in which case the vessel making room for another to haul in or out shall have liberty to make her warps fast to the most convenient place adjacent, for a reasonable time; and all sea vessels, when transporting or wanting to haul into a wharf or dock, or to make sail, in order to proceed to sea, shall have the same privilege. When any ship or vessel may be lying alongside any wharf, and not taking in or discharging, she shall make way for and permit any vessel that wants to unload or load, to come inside, next the wharf, antil she discharges or loads her cargo; and the said vessel, when so discharged or loaded, shall haul outside and give way to the vessel that first occupied the wharf; provided that, from the 10th of De cen.ber to the 1st of March, no vessel be compelled to move from her berth (only those at Gloucester Point piers), excepting to let vessels in and out of docks. Every vessel arriving from, or bound to, a foreign port, is required by law to receive a pilot, or to pay half pilotage in the warden's office, where the master of every such vessel is required, under the penalty of 10 dollars, to make a report within 36 hours after his ar rival, and again before his departure, signing his name to said report in the wardens book. Every vessel of 75 tons and upwards arriving from, or bound to, any port within the United States, and the master of all such vessels, are bound as above. The pilot of every vessel is required to inform the master of his having to report at the warden's office. As vessels obliged to receive a pilot are required to pay 10 dollars in addition, as winter pilotage, from the 20th of November to the 10th of March, both days inclusive. Foreign vessels, i. e. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Neapolitan, Danish, Russian, South American, and Haytian, to pay 2 dollars 67 cen's in addition to other pilotage. Every pilot defined more than 24 hours by any master, owner, or consignee, is entitled to 2 dollars per day for every day he is so detained. Every pilot detained more than 48 hours by the ice, after he has conducted his vessel to a place of safety, is entitled to 2 dollars per day for every day he is so detained. Every pilot compelled to perform quarantine is entitled to 2 dol. lars per day, for every day he is so detained, and cannot be discharged in less than 6 days, without his consent. Every pilot obliged by the ice or stress of weather to proceed to another port, is, when there, entitled to his pilotage; and if there discharged, to 8 cents a mile for every mile he has to travel home. Every pilot is required, under a penalty of 12 dollars, to make re port, within 48 hours, at the warden's office, of every vessel he con ducts to the city. No ship or vessel loading or discharging hemp at any wharf, or within any dock, shall be allowed to have any fire on board; neither shall any vessel lying outside or near her be permitted to have fire on board, while it may be considered dangerous. And no tar, tur Rates of Commission recommended for general Adoption, and allowed by the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, when no Agreement subsists to the contrary, established at a stated Meeting on the 10th of March, 1823. On bills remitted for collection under protest for non-acceptance or non-payment, 1-2 commission to be charged On consignment of merchandise withdrawn or re-shipped. full commission to be charged to the extent of advances or responsibilities incurred, and 1-2 commission on the current value of the residue. On sales of merchandise originally consigned to another house, but withdrawn, and where no responsibilities are incurred, only 1-2 commission to be charged on the current value. The current valve in all cases to be settled by certificate of 2 respectable merchants, auctioneers, or brokers. The above commissions to be exclusive of guarantee, brokerage, storage, and every other charge actually incurred. The risk of loss by fire, unless insurance be ordered, and of rob. bery, theft, and other unavoidable occurrences, if the usual care be taken to secure the property, is, in all cases, to be borne by the proprietor of the goods. [The following table exhibits the Number of Vessels which arrived in the port of Philadelphia from the 1st of January 1787, to the 1st of January, 1840. Years. Foreign. Coast wise. Years. 330 Foreign. Coastwise. Total. 319 393 490 376 715 1,354 Value of the Goods Imported into this port during the year 1837 and 1838, and three quarters of 1839. Showing an increase in the three quarters of this year, of $2,153,349, over the whole of 1838. Duties accruing to the United States from Imports into this port during the fiscal year in 1838 and 1839. Statement showing the Amount of Domestic Produce Exported from the port of Philadelphia, to Foreign Ports, from the 1st of January to the 30th of September, 1839. *From the 1st of August to 31st December: no records previous part of the year. + The documents for these two years lost or mislaid. War with Great Britain. Embargo. Opening of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Comparative Statement of the Value of Foreign and Domestic Goods exported from Philadelphia during the years 1837 and 1838, and the three quarters of 1839 ending September 30th. Comparative Statement of the Amount of Foreign Sugar Imported into the Port of Philadelphia for Five Years, from 1835 to 1539, inclusive. With the Quantity Exported during the same period for the benefit of Drawback. Comparative Statement of the Quantity of Coffee imported into Philadelphia from Foreign Ports, during the Five Years commencing with 1835 and ending with 1839. 1837 4,746 1838 1839 403 4,9421 1835. 1836. 1837. 1838. 1839. Imported from Bags Hhds. Tes. Bls. Bags. Tes Bls Bags. Hhis Bls. Bags, Hnds. Bls. Bags. Hhis. Fcs. Bls. Comparative Statement of the Gross Amount of weighable Foreign Merchandise imported into Philadelphia during the Five Years commencing with 1835 and ending with 1839. Statement of the Quantity of Foreign Wines, Spirits, Molasses, &c., imported direct into Philadelphia during the Five Years commencing with 1835 and ending with 1839; with the Quantity exported during the same Period for the benefit of Drawback. Note.-Subject to a reduction of 3-10ths of the excess between the value of the articles at 20 per cent., and the amount at the different rates as stated. There are now, 1840, 16 banks in Philadelphia, with capitals amounting, exclusive of that of the Bank of the United States, to $18,050,000. 'The number of marine insurance companies amounts to 10, with an aggregate capital of $3,330,000; and there are 9 fire insurance companies, with a capital of $3,450,000; besides 3 associations for mutual assurance against fire, operating without any specified capital.-Am.Ed.] |