No. 614.
Mr. Stenersen to Mr. Fish.
Legation of
Sweden and Norway in the United States,
Washington, May
20, 1875. (Received May 20.)
Mr. Secretary of State:
Referring to your note of the 15th of March last, I have the honor, in
obedience to the orders of my government, herewith to send you a copy,
together with a French translation of the order of the general direction of
customs, dated April 6, 1875, relative to the exemption of United States
vessels from admeasurement in Sweden.* * *
Be pleased to accept, &c.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Order of the general direction of
customs.
In consideration of the provisions of the new royal order of May 15,
1874, relative to the admeasurement of merchant vessels, article 3,
whereby foreign vessels having certificates of admeasurement given in
their respective countries (in accordance with the principles
established by said order) are exempted from the general obligation of
admeasurement provided by the same article, on the condition, however,
that Swedish vessels arriving in the ports of the foreign countries to
which such vessels belong, shall be exempted from admeasurement; in view
of the letter of March 30, 1875, whereby the minister of foreign affairs
informed this office that the Government of the United States of America
had declared that Swedish vessels, having a Swedish certificate of
admeasurement, issued in accordance with the same principles, on or
after the first day of April, 1875, should be considered in American
ports as being of the net tonnage inscribed in the certificate, with the
addition, however, of the cubic contents of the compartments, for which
no deduction is allowed by the American law relative to the
admeasurement of vessels, the general direction of customs orders and
hereby gives notice that vessels of the United States of America having
certificates of admeasurement issued in their country, in accordance
with the principles established by the royal order aforesaid, shall be
exempted from admeasurement in Swedish ports.
Stockholm, April 6,
1875.
- A. G. VON BENNICH.
- E. A. HERNBLOM.
- A. BRÄNDSTRÖM.
- AXEL BJÖRKMAN.
