The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
Shipping Masters and Shipping of Seamen
Shipping Masters and Shipping of Seamen.
Shipped. | Discharged. | |
---|---|---|
Montreal | 480 | 291 |
Quebec | 1,771 | 720 |
St. John, NT.B | 3,904 | 1,269 |
Halifax, N.S | 2,879 | 2,178 |
Chatham, N.B | 324 | 137 |
Lockport, N.S | 591 | 323 |
Lunenburg | 474 | 387 |
Picton | 400 | 273 |
Yarmouth | 640 | 479 |
Charlottetown, P.E.I | 887 | 450 |
Total | 12,416 | 6,469 |
The fees received amounted to $8,197. With the exception of Quebec and Montreal the fees received at any port form the salary of the Shipping Master, he paying office expenses. Ac. At Montreal the Chief Officer of Customs, and at Quebec the Chief Constable of the River Police, acts as Shipping Master, and the fees revert to the Treasury.