Excerpt from American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States Same subject: seamen of the port of New York. January 88, 1882, Trade with the British West Indies: inhabitants of Boston. January 88, 1888, Same subject: inhabitants of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. March 15, 1888, Same subject: A. Appleby and others, of South Carolina, and Chamber of Commerce of the city of Bal timore. March 15, 1888. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.