"Pierage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon tonnage so that it should fall "more equitably upon the different classes of vessels affected thereby."[HF] It removed all tonnage, harbor, pilotage, and other like taxes imposed upon shipping by State and municipal authority (except wharfage, pierage, and dockage); and imposed a duty of thirty cents per ton on all ships, vessels, or steamers entered in ...
— Manual of Ship Subsidies • Edwin M. Bacon |
