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The Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855 (full name An Act further to regulate the Carriage of Passengers in Steamships and other Vessels) was an act passed by the United States federal government on March 3, 1855, replacing the previous Steerage Act of 1819 (also known as the Manifest of Immigrants Act) and a number of acts passed between 1847 and 1849 with new regulations on the conditions of ...
The Steerage Act of 1819, and all the other Acts regulating conditions of travel passed after that, were repealed and superseded by the Carriage of Passengers Act of 1855, passed March 3, 1855. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Carriage of Passengers Act imposed a wider range of regulations on the conditions of travel than the original Steerage Act, combining ...
Red Jacket was a clipper ship, one of the largest and fastest ever built. [4] She was also the first ship of the White Star Line company. [dubious – discuss] She was named after Sagoyewatha, a famous Seneca Indian chief, called "Red Jacket" by settlers. [5]
Passenger manifest from 1853. The data collected is based on the passenger manifests of the emigrant ships. [4] These lists had to be presented to the American immigration authorities upon arrival in the United States. Depending on the requirements of the U.S. immigration policy the detailedness of the data collected changed.
Starting in 1820, some federal records, including ship passenger lists, were kept for immigration purposes, and a gradual increase in immigration was recorded. More complete immigration records provide data on immigration after 1830. Though conducted since 1790, the census of 1850 was the first in which place of birth was asked specifically.
The state-of-the-art ship Le Lyonnais was built in 1855 for transatlantic passenger and mail service. The ship never made it home following its maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York in January 1856.
Donald McKay was launched on Donald McKay's shipyard in East Boston, USA, in January 1855.Newspapers reported that she had "all the airy beauty of a clipper combined with the stately outline of a ship of war and, though not sharp, yet her great length, buoyancy, and stability, indicate[d] that she [would] sail very fast, and be an excellent sea boat". [2]
Bond of the Accessory Transit Company (of Nicaragua), issued 30. November 1855, signed by Charles Morgan. The Accessory Transit Company was a company set up by Cornelius Vanderbilt and others during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s, to transport would-be prospectors from the east coast of the United States to the west coast.