893.841 Surtax/41: Telegram
The Consul General, at Shanghai (Cunningham) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 2—7:27 a.m.]
Referring to my telegram of August 31, 4 [5?] p.m. Dollar Line steamship President McKinley was cleared by the Customs yesterday on payment of treaty tonnage dues and without payment of the tonnage surtax The Customs issued the usual 4-months’ tonnage-dues certificate to the vessel, the period of its validity running from August 19th, the date of the last previous entry of the vessel, when it was cleared by consular clearance only.
2. It appears probable that upon their next entry similar settlement will be made of the tonnage dues on the steamships President, The Cooperation and Stanley Dollar of the Dollar Line and Mobile City and Steel Worker of the United States Steel Products Company, the only other vessels cleared by this office by consular clearance only. Repeated to Legation.