Extract from the final report of the International Tonnage Commission assembled at Constantinople in 1873.
17, It is recommended that a penal provision shall be enacted to the effect that if any of the permanent sSEAPACEs which have been deducted shall be employed either for the use of merchandise or passengers, or in any way profitably employed for earning freight, this sSEAPACEs shall be added to the net tonnage, and nevermore, be allowed as a deduction.