OTHER CHARGES.--The following Quarantine fees and tax on tonnage are paid on entering a vessel at the Custom House :

Health Officer's fees, each vessel,.

$5.00

TAX ON TONNAGE. That section fourteen of "An Act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes," approved June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be amended so as to read as follows:

"That in lieu of the tax on tonnage of thirty cents per ton per annum imposed prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, a duty of three cents per ton, not to exceed in the aggregate fifteen cents per ton in any one year, is hereby imposed at each entry on all vessels which shall be entered in any port of the United States from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the Coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or the Sandwich Islands, or Newfoundland; and a duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum, is hereby imposed at each entry upon all vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any other foreign ports, not, however, to include vessels in distress or not engaged in trade. Provided, That the President of the United States shall suspend the collection of so much of the duty herein imposed on vessels entered from any foreign port as may be in excess of the tonnage and lighthouse dues, or other equivalent tax or taxes imposed in said port on American vessels by the Government of the foreign country in which such port is situated, and shall, upon the passage of this act, and from time to time thereafter as often as it may become necessary by reason of changes in the laws of the foreign countries above mentioned, indicate by proclamation the ports to which such suspension shall apply, and the rate or rates of tonnage duty, if any, to be collected under such suspension. Provided, further, that such proclamation shall exclude from the benefits of the suspension herein authorized, the vessels of any foreign country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of the country in which such port is situated, or on the cargoes of such vessels; and sections forty-two hundred and twenty-three and forty-two hundred and twenty-four, and so much of section forty-two hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes as conflicts with this section, are hereby repealed." (See Act of Congress of June 19, 1886, Section 11.)

The Port of New-York: Its Boundaries and Port Charges-Continued.

RATES OF PILOTAGE.—The following are the rates of pilotage at the Port of New-York, as established by act of the Legislature, passed April 3d, 1884 :

PILOTAGE FOR TAKING VESSELS FROM UPPER TO LOWER QUARANTINE.

For vessels having had death or sickness on board, double Outward pilotage.
For vessels from sickly ports, but having had no sickness on board, single Outward pilotage.
Pilotage of vessels from new Quarantine to New-York, one-half Inward pilotage.
Pilotage of vesseis from Lower to Upper Quarantine, quarter pilotage.

Pilotage of vessels from Lower to Upper Quarantine to New-York, quarter pilotage.

Extract from the law in reference to unlicensed pilots.

SEC. 29. Any person not holding a license as pilot under this act, or under the laws of the State of New-Jersey, who shall pilot, or offer to pilot any ship or vessel to or from the port of New York, by way of Sandy Hook, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a tine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days; and all persons employing a person to act as pilot, not holding a license under this act, or under the laws of the State of New-Jersey, shall forfeit and pay to the Board of Commissioners of Pilots the sum of one hundred dollars.

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PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Statement of outstanding principal of the Public Debt of the United States on the 1st of January of each year, from 1791 to 1843, inclusive, and on the 1st of July of each year, from 1843 to 1890, inclusive. Compiled from the Annual Reports of the respective Secretaries of the Treasury.

CLASSIFICATION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STates, ON THE 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 1890.

Interest bearing debt, exclusive of bonds issued to Pacific Railroads,..
Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity,.....

Debt bearing no interest, including National Bank Fund, deposited in the
Treasury, under Act of July 14, 1890,...

Aggregate of interest and non-interest bearing debt,...........
Certificates and Notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the Treasury,..

Aggregate of debt, including Certificates and Notes,....

CASH IN THE TREASURY.

$619,019,740 00

1,682,505 26

404,970,706 22

$1,025,672,951 48 516,198,247 00

$1,541,871,198 48

Reserved for the following purposes:

For redemption of United States notes, Acts January 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882,..

For redemption of Gold Certificates issued,..

$100,000,000 00

For redemption of Silver Certificates issued,.

For redemption of Currency Certificates issued,.

175,431,969 00

309,855,778 00

6,820,000 00

24,090,500 00

For redemption of Treasury Notes, Act July 14, 1890,.........

For matured debt, accrued interest, and interest due and unpaid,...........

5,670,597 05

Total cash reserved for above purposes,..

$621,868,844 05

Available for other purposes:

Fractional Silver, Fractional Currency, and minor coin not full legal tender,......

19,153,006 13

Net cash balance, including National Bank Fund deposited in the
Treasury, under Act of July 14, 1890,.............

38,418,806 63

Total,

Debt, less cash in the Treasury,..

$679,440,656 81

$862,430,541 67

* In the amount stated on the preceding page as the outstanding principal of the public debt are included the certificates of deposit outstanding on the 30th June, issued under Act of June 8, 1872, for which a like amount in United States notes was on special deposit in the Treasury for their redemption, and added to the cash balance in the Treasury. These certificates, as a matter of accounts, are treated as a part of the public debt, but being offset by notes held on deposit for their redemption, should properly be deducted from the principal of the public debt in making comparison with former years.

+ Exclusively of Gold, Silver and Currency Certificates held in the Treasury's cash, and including $64,623,512 bonds issued to the several Pacific Railroads.

PUBLIC DEBT OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

THE following statement exhibits the Public Debt of the State of New-York at the close of the fiscal year ending September 30th, 1890, compared with the previous five years. Prepared by direction of the Hon. EDWARD WEMPLE, Comptroller of the State:

REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

THE following statement exhibits the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of the State of New-York for each year, from 1873 to 1890, both inclusive: