APPENDIXES. APPENDIX A. REPORTS OF SHIPPING COMMISSIONERS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1911. The following statements are based on the annual reports of United States shipping commissioners for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911. Shipping commissioners are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor at each port of entry which is also a port of ocean navigation, and for which Congress has made necessary appropriation. The reports cover: I. Shipments, discharges, and expenditures. II. Shipments and reshipments. III. Discharges. IV. Nationality of seamen. V. Failures to join. VI. Men shipped to be discharged abroad. VII. Allotments of wages. VIII. Seamen shipped and discharged by collectors. I. SHIPMENTS, DISCHARGES, AND EXPENDITURES. The following table shows the seamen shipped and discharged by each commissioner, the total cost to the Government of each office, and the number of employees authorized: 1 Includes shipments, reshipments, and discharges by the collector of customs for 4 months 4 days; also salary paid to the shipping commissioner for 7 months 24 days (discontinued Feb. 24, 1911). 87 II. SHIPMENTS AND RESHIPMENTS OF SEAMEN. The following table, compiled by shipping commissioners from articles of agreement, shows the number of men shipped and reshipped on vessels of the types and in the trades named. Half-rate foreign ports are those in British North America, the West Indies, and Mexico. Seamen reshipped are those who at the end of a voyage engage to serve on the next voyage of the same vessel: The following table, compiled by shipping commissioners from articles of agreement, shows the number of men discharged and paid off by commissioners from vessels of the types and in the trades named: |