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n. - A tax imposed on ships that enter the US.

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  • Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished.
  • It contains the name of the vessel and that of her master, her tunnage, and the number of her crew, certifying that she belongs to the subjects of a particular state,...
  • A vessel is measured by a surveyor to ascertain her tunnage, and the collector records or registers in a book her name, the port to which she belongs, her burden or...
  • The last restrictions upon the power of the states contained in this section, are: "No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty of tunnage; keep troops...
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