A Brief Bibliography Of American Shipping.
I. English Navigation Acts.—Macpherson's “Annals,” ii, pp. 442, 484; Scobell, “Collection of Acts,” p. 176; Ruffhead, “Statutes at Large,” iii, p. 182; Roger Coke, “Treatise on Trade” (1671), p. 36; Sir Josiah Child, “New Discourse on Trade” (1671); Sir Matthew Decker, “Essay on the Causes of the Decline of Foreign Trade” (1744); Joshua Gee, “Trade and Navigation of Great Britain” (1730); Lindsay, “History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce”; McCulloch, “Dictionary of Commerce” (new edition), articles “Navigation” and “Colonial Trade”; ibid., edition of Adam Smith, note xii, p. 534; Huskisson, speeches, iii, 13, 351; Levi, “History of British Commerce,” p. 158.
II. Navigation Laws of the United States.—“United States Statutes at Large,” i, 27, 287, 305; Act of 1817, Statutes, iii, 351; Revised Statutes (1878), “Commerce and Navigation,” p. 795; Lord Sheffield, “Observations on the Commerce of the United States”; Pitkin, “Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States,” chap, i; D. A. Wells, “Our Merchant Marine,” chap. v; Seybert's “Statistical Annals”; Macgregor, “Commercial Statistics of America.”
III. Growth of American Shipping.—Rapid growth, 1840-1856. Levi, “History of British Commerce,” p. 582; Bigelow, “Tariff Question,” Appendix No. 57; “Harper's Magazine,” January, 1884, p. 217; Lindsay, “History of Merchant Shipping,” iii, p. 187; for ship-building, see Report of the United States Bureau of Statistics, “Commerce and Navigation,” 1881, p. 927; for tonnage, ibid., pp. 928-930; also, see “United States Statistical Abstract”; Dingley's Report to House of Representatives, December 15, 1882, No. 1,827, Forty-seventh Congress, second session, pp. 5, 8, 254.