tunnage

• “Young wrote that cannabis in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man coz, dammit, heez a librul, not on accounta the lethal dose a smokin that weed is mehsured by tunnage perhour!”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The AMA Open to Medical Marijuana Research

• “This measure of “tunnage” as units of volume should not be confused with other measures of weight that developed later, such as “displacement tons.””

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “A vessel is measured by a surveyor to ascertain her tunnage, and the collector records or registers in a book her name, the port to which she belongs, her burden or tunnage, and the name of the place in which she was built, and gives to the owner or commander a certificate of such registry.”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “It contains the name of the vessel and that of her master, her tunnage, and the number of her crew, certifying that she belongs to the subjects of a particular state, and requiring all persons at peace with that state, to suffer her to proceed on her voyage without interruption.”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “Our government having become a party to this agreement, discriminating tunnage duties have been abolished.”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “The last restrictions upon the power of the states contained in this section, are: "No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty of tunnage; keep troops or ships of war in time of peace; enter into any agreement or compact with any other state, or with a foreign power; or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them: a harbour, by a moderate port-duty upon the tunnage of the shipping which load or unload in it.”

  I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

• “The depth and the supply of water for a navigable canal must be proportioned to the number and tunnage of the lighters, which are likely to carry goods upon it; the extent of a harbour to the number of the shipping which are likely to take shelter in it.”

  I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

• “When the carriages which pass over a highway or a bridge, and the lighters which sail upon a navigable canal, pay toll in proportion to their weight or their tunnage, they pay for the maintenance of those public works exactly in proportion to the wear and tear which they occasion of them.”

  I. Book V. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth

• “As touching their tunnage, I thinke it may be neere fiue or sixe thousand tunne.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.

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