Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 594.
Sir L. S. Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.

Beverly, Mass., August 13, 1888. (Received August 16.)

Sir: I have the honor to communicate to you herewith copy of an approved minute of the privy council of Canada relative to the tolls levied by the Dominion authorities on vessels passing through the Welland canal.

I have, etc.,

L. S. Sackville West.

[Inclosure.]

Certified copy of a report of a committee of the honorable the privy council for Canada.

At the present time the tolls chargeable on all goods and merchandise passing through the Welland Canal bound for any Lake Ontario port are the same, whether, for example, the destination of such merchandise be Toronto or Prescott on the north, Or Oswego or Ogdensburg on the south.

Wheat and certain other cereals pay 2 cents per ton for passage through both the Welland and St. Lawrence Canal system to Montreal, or to any point on the St. Lawrence Canal system short of Montreal, without discrimination, whether to ports on north or south shore, and that the same cereals shipped from any port on Lake Ontario, whether American or Canadian, to Montreal pay 2 cents per ton for passage through the whole of the St. Lawrence Canals.