Extract from a letter from Messrs. Tynes & Smith to Mr. Consul Archibald, February 9, 1864

Extract from a letter from Messrs. Tynes & Smith to Mr. Consul Archibald.

The schooner Nassau, a small vessel of about eighty-six tons burden, was chartered by our house to take a cargo of flour to St. John’s, New Brunswick, at twenty-five cents per barrel, the vessel carrying eight hundred barrels.

The authorities demand two sureties of $5,000 each for the due performance of voyage, to obtain said securities it cost two and a half per cent., which takes entirely all the freight and fifty dollars in addition. The freight was engaged, and the vessel laden before the regulation was made. The master is now obliged to pay. fifty dollars over and above his freight to enable him to carry his cargo to St. John’s, New Brunswick, for nothing.