TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

REGISTER'S OFFICE,

27th December, 1820.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit the Annual Statement to the 31st December, 1819, of the District Tonnage of the United States.

The registered tonnage, as corrected at this office, for
the year 1819, is stated at

The enrolled and licensed tonnage, is stated at
The fishing vessels, at

Tons. 95ths.

612,930 44 571,058 46

76,762 66

Amounting to 1,260,751 61

The tonnage on which duties were collected during the year 1819, amounted as follows: Registered tonnage engaged in foreign trade, paying duty on each voyage

Enrolled and licensed tonnage employed in the coasting trade, paying an annual duty; also registered tonnage employed in ditto, paying duty on each entry

Fishing vessels the same

774,755 75

600,917 38 76,918 75

1,452,591 93

Duties were also paid on tonnage owned by citizens
of the United States engaged in foreign trade, not
registered
Ditto, coasting trade

8,823 06

899 42

9,722 48

Total amount of tonnage on which duties were collected

Of the registered tonnage amounting as before stated to 612,930 44 tons, there was employed in the whale fishery

Enrolled and licensed tonnage also in the whale fishery

1,462,314 46

31,700 40

686 35

I beg leave to subjoin a statement (marked A) of the tonnage for the year 1819, compared with the amount thereof, as exhibited in the preceding annual statement for the year 1818; with notes in re

lation to the increase of the registered and enrolled tonnage respectively, in 1819.

By this statement, it appears that the total amount of new vessels built in the several districts of the United States, was