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TRADE IN 1830.

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the year $22,432, while the custom-house records seem to make the amount $36,875.^[1] No vessel of the year seems to require special notice, neither were there any important modifications in trade or revenue regulations. Commercial and maritime annals of 1830 are thus wellnigh a blank.^[2] I append an alphabetical list of all the vessels, about 100 in number, besides doubtful records, touching on the coast in 1825–30, with such items about each as are accessible and apparently worth preserving. I might add the dates at which all the vessels, or most of them, touched at the different ports on their successive trips; but the information would be of great bulk and little real value.^[3]

Funchal, Globe, Jura, Leonor, María Ester, Planet, Pocahontas, Seringapatan (?), Thomas Nowlan, Volunteer, Washington (?), Whaleman.

↑ Unsueta, Informe, 1829, doc. 9. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Cust.-H., MS., i. passim.
↑ A few miscellaneous notes of minor importance are as follows: Feb. 19, 1830, one sixth of duties deducted in case of national vessels from foreign ports. Dept. Rec., MS., viii. 22. April 23d, agreement between J. C. Jones, Jr., and Cooper, by which the former is to furnish a vessel under Mexican flag, for coasting trade, collecting furs, otter-hunting, etc., to be carried on by the two in partnership. Vallejo, Doc., MS., i. xxx. 45. Nov. 24th, gov. says the vice-president complains that many vessels becoming nationalized do not comply with the laws requiring officers and one third of the crew to be Mexicans—a necessary formality to reduce the duties. Dept. Rec., MS., viii. 125. Aug. 17th, action of the dip. regulating the duties on timber exported—the proceeds belonging to the propios y arbitrios fund. Leg. Rec., MS., i. 166–7. Mar. 31st, Mex. law on seizure of contraband goods. Arrillaga, Recop., 1831, 227-33. Aug. 24, law on consumption duty on foreign goods. Id., 1831, p. 233–6. Mexicans engaged in taking otter have no duties to pay to national treasury. Two citizens of Sta Bárbara were engaged in the business at the islands. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxxviii. 4. June 30th, J. B. Lopez allowed to take otter, paying from $1 to $3 per skin to the territorial treasury. Dept. Rec., viii. 52, 130. In June Mancisidor writes to Guerra very discouragingly respecting the prospects of the trade in Cal. hides and tallow. This state of things was largely due to the inferior quality of the Cal. products, resulting from the carelessness of excessive speculation. All dealers suffer, and some will be ruined. Cal. hides bring less than those of Buenos Aires, being too dry and too much stretched. Guerra, Doc., Hist. Cal., MS., vi. 140–1.
↑ List of vessels in Californian ports, 1825–30:
Adam, Amer. ship, 296 tons; Daniel Fallon, master; at S. Francisco in Oct. 1826.
Alliance, Amer. ship; doubtfully recorded as having arrived at Monterey in Oct. 1826.
Alvins, doubtful whaler of 1829.
America, doubtful whaler of 1829.
Andes, Amer. brig, 122 or 172 tons; Seth Rogers, master; on coast from spring of 1828 (perhaps autumn of 1827) to spring of 1829; paid $430 at

[1] Unsueta, Informe, 1829, doc. 9. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Cust.-H., MS., i. passim.

[2] A few miscellaneous notes of minor importance are as follows: Feb. 19, 1830, one sixth of duties deducted in case of national vessels from foreign ports. Dept. Rec., MS., viii. 22. April 23d, agreement between J. C. Jones, Jr., and Cooper, by which the former is to furnish a vessel under Mexican flag, for coasting trade, collecting furs, otter-hunting, etc., to be carried on by the two in partnership. Vallejo, Doc., MS., i. xxx. 45. Nov. 24th, gov. says the vice-president complains that many vessels becoming nationalized do not comply with the laws requiring officers and one third of the crew to be Mexicans—a necessary formality to reduce the duties. Dept. Rec., MS., viii. 125. Aug. 17th, action of the dip. regulating the duties on timber exported—the proceeds belonging to the propios y arbitrios fund. Leg. Rec., MS., i. 166–7. Mar. 31st, Mex. law on seizure of contraband goods. Arrillaga, Recop., 1831, 227-33. Aug. 24, law on consumption duty on foreign goods. Id., 1831, p. 233–6. Mexicans engaged in taking otter have no duties to pay to national treasury. Two citizens of Sta Bárbara were engaged in the business at the islands. Dept. St. Pap., Ben. Mil., MS., lxxxviii. 4. June 30th, J. B. Lopez allowed to take otter, paying from $1 to $3 per skin to the territorial treasury. Dept. Rec., viii. 52, 130. In June Mancisidor writes to Guerra very discouragingly respecting the prospects of the trade in Cal. hides and tallow. This state of things was largely due to the inferior quality of the Cal. products, resulting from the carelessness of excessive speculation. All dealers suffer, and some will be ruined. Cal. hides bring less than those of Buenos Aires, being too dry and too much stretched. Guerra, Doc., Hist. Cal., MS., vi. 140–1.

[p145–69-3] List of vessels in Californian ports, 1825–30:
Adam, Amer. ship, 296 tons; Daniel Fallon, master; at S. Francisco in Oct. 1826.
Alliance, Amer. ship; doubtfully recorded as having arrived at Monterey in Oct. 1826.
Alvins, doubtful whaler of 1829.
America, doubtful whaler of 1829.
Andes, Amer. brig, 122 or 172 tons; Seth Rogers, master; on coast from spring of 1828 (perhaps autumn of 1827) to spring of 1829; paid $430 at

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