Portugal grants postal subventions of comparatively small amounts to three steamship companies which perform all her mail carrying. A move toward the institution of a general subsidy system was made in 1899, when a bill was before the Cortes providing construction and navigation bounties for the encouragement of domestic shipbuilding and ship-using; but this measure was not enacted. In 1911 the republic offered a subsidy of one thousand dollars per voyage in either direction for steamship service between Lisbon and New York, with call at the Azores, the contract to run for three years.[[EF]] Portugal controls her shipping service with her colonies, the trade with them being restricted to the Portuguese flag.[[EG]] Her total tonnage is small: in 1910 only 110,183 tons.[[EH]]

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[DZ]

U.S. Con. Rept., no. 112, January, 1890, pp. 54-56.

[EA]

U.S. Vice Con. Gen. William Dawson jr., Con. Repts., no. 349, Oct., 1910.