Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

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, and requiring all persons at peace with that state, to suffer her to proceed on her voyage without interruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

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 tunnage, and the name of the place in which she was built, and gives to the owner or commander a certificate of such registry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

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 or ships of war in time of peace; enter into any agreement or compact with any other state, or with a foreign power; or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference

As touching their tunnage, I thinke it may be neere fiue or sixe thousand tunne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference

But of Portugals there are not lightly aboue 50 saile, and they make all wet in like sorte, whose tunnage may amount to three thousand tuns, and not vpwarde.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference

Nevertheless, he failed in one of his orthographic endeavors: he did not succeed in taking the a out of leather, feather, and weather, nor in changing tongue to tung, and ton and tonnage to tun and tunnage.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2] Reference

For it cannot be imagin'd, that the law meant to raife this duty on the people to enrich a private man, which would be the efFeft, if he might have his prifage cuftom-free; and he paid the tunnage impofed by all former laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [A general abridgment of law and equity : alphabetically digested under proper titles : with notes and references to the whole] Reference

But it was refolved in the Exchequer Chamber by eight Judges, that immediately upon importation this duty of tunnage attach'd upon the wine, and tlie grantee receives wnatever, part he takes for prifage charg'd with the duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A general abridgment of law and equity : alphabetically digested under proper titles : with notes and references to the whole] Reference

A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them: a harbour, by a moderate port-duty upon the tunnage of the shipping which load or unload in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth] Reference

The depth and the supply of water for a navigable canal must be proportioned to the number and tunnage of the lighters, which are likely to carry goods upon it; the extent of a harbour to the number of the shipping which are likely to take shelter in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth] Reference

When the carriages which pass over a highway or a bridge, and the lighters which sail upon a navigable canal, pay toll in proportion to their weight or their tunnage, they pay for the maintenance of those public works exactly in proportion to the wear and tear which they occasion of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth] Reference

Bills of this form were thenceforth called new tenor, while those of the form adopted in 1737 were generally known thereafter as middle tenor bills but were sometimes spoken of as first new tenor bills. 219 To understand clearly the change in the form of the bill of public credit, it is necessary to recall the fact that under the act of 1737, while the declared value of the bills was the same as that which was set forth in those of the new form, their acceptance was compulsory only in certain payments to the treasurer, among which duties of impost, of tunnage and shipping, and income of the light house were not included.    From Wordnik.com.  [Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts]] Reference

Duties, imposts and excises, defined, 113 power of congress to lay, 113 of tunnage, states may not lay, 120 protective, by what authority laid, 116, 117.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference