History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics: Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present TimeBallou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
History
History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics: Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time
Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
Cuba -- Description and travel; Cuba -- History
Brought forward, $12,795,723
Cotton, 125,000
Leaf tobacco, 687,240
Rice, 454,230
Beans, peas, onions, etc., 257,260
Indian corn, 4,853,418
Vegetables and fruits, 11,475,712
Grapes, 5,586,616
Casada, 146,144
Charcoal, 2,107,300
Woods or the products of woods, 1,741,195
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Total value of vegetable productions, 40,229,838
Total value of animal productions, 9,023,116
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49,252,954
Total _net_ product of agricultural
and rural industry 22,808,622
Capital invested, $338,917,705, produces, 48,839,928
COMMERCE AND COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS.
_Import duties._--The rate of duty charged on the importation of foreign
produce and manufactures in foreign bottoms is 24-1/2 and 30-1/4 on the
tariff valuation of each article, while the same articles in Spanish
bottoms, from a foreign port, pay 17-1/2 and 21-1/4 per cent.
_Export duties._--Foreign flag for any port, 6-1/4 per cent. on tariff
valuation.
Spanish flag for a foreign port, 4-1/2 per cent. on tariff valuation.
Spanish flag for Spanish port, 2-1/4 per cent. on tariff valuation;
except leaf tobacco, which pays 12-1/2, 6-1/4 and 2-1/4 per cent.,
according to the flag and destination.
An additional per centage, under various pretexts, is also levied on the
total amount of all duties.
Foreign flour is subject to a duty that is nearly prohibitory.
Gold and silver are free of import duty, but pay, the former 1-1/4 and
the latter 2-1/4 per cent., export.
Every master of a vessel, on entering port, is obliged to present two
manifests of his cargo and stores,--one to the boarding officers, and
the other at the time of making entry and taking both the oaths,
twenty-four hours after his arrival, with permission of making any
necessary corrections within the twelve working hours; and every
consignee is required to deliver a detailed invoice of each cargo to
his, her or their consignment, within forty-eight hours after the vessel
has entered port, and heavy penalties are incurred from mere omission or
inaccuracy.
The tonnage duty on foreign vessels is 12 rials, or $1.50, per register
ton.
On vessels arriving and departing in ballast or putting in in distress
no duty is levied.
Besides the tonnage duty, every foreign square-rigged vessel entering
and loading incurs about $85 expenses, besides $5.50 for each day
occupied in discharging. Foreign fore-and-aft vessels pay about $15 less
port charges.
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