-

-

or shall

or shall have been

ceeding Two hundred Tons, in the Penalty of Five hundred
Pounds; if exceeding the Burthen of Two hundred
Tons and not exceeding Three hundred Tons, in the
Penalty of Eight hundred Pounds; and if exceeding
the Burthen of Three hundred Tons, in the Penalty of
One thousand Pounds; AND the Condition of every
such Bond shall be, that such Certificate shall not be sold,
lent, or otherwise disposed of to any Person or Persons
whatever, and that the same shall be solely made use
of for the Service of the Ship or Vessel for which it is
granted, — and that in case such Ship or Vessel shall be lost
or taken by the Enemy (1), burnt or broken up (2),
or otherwise prevented from returning to the Port to
which she belongs,
or shall on any Account have lost
and forfeited the Privileges (3) of a British Ship,
have been seized and legally condemned for illicit Trading,
or shall have been taken in Execution for Debt
and sold by due Process of Law,
sold to the Crown, or shall under
have been registered de novo (4),
preserved, shall be delivered up (5) within One Month
after the Arrival of the Master in any Port or Place in
'His Majesty's Dominions to the Collector and Comptroller
of some Port in Great Britain, or of the Isle of Man, or
of the British Plantations, or to the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of
the Islands of Guernsey or Jersey ;
AND that if any
Foreigner or any Person or Persons for his Use and
Benefit shall purchase or otherwise become entitled to the
Whole or any Part (6) or Share of or any Interest in such
Ship or Vessel, and the same shall be within the Limits
of any Port of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or
the British Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories
aforesaid, then and in such Case the Certificate of Re-
gistry shall, within Seven Days after such Purchase or
Transfer of Property in such Ship or Vessel, be delivered
up to the Person or Persons herein-before authorized to
make Registry and grant Certificate of Registry at such

any

Circumstances
THE Certificate, if

Conditions that the Certificate made use of for the Service of the Vessel, &c.

shall be solely

(1) See § 10.

(2) See Vessels sold as unseaworthy, $9. (3) By Foreign Repairs, see § 6.; sold to Foreigners, § 10. ; by Disqualification of Owners, § 5.

(4) See Certificate lost or withheld, § 26. and 27.

(5) See Liability of all Persons herein, as well as of the Parties to the Bond, § 23.

(6) See § 5. 10.

If Ship, at the Time of Regis try, be at any other Port than

that of Registry, the Master may there give Bond.

When Master is changed, new Master to give similar Bond, and his Name

Port or Place respectively as aforesaid; and if such
Ship or Vessel shall be in any Foreign Port when such
Purchase or Transfer of Interest or Property shall take
place, then that the same shall be delivered up to the
British Consul or other Chief British Officer resident at
or nearest to such Foreign Port, or if such Ship or
Vessel shall be at Sea when such Purchase or Transfer of
Interest or Property shall take place, then that the
same shall be delivered up to the British Consul or other
Chief British Officer at the Foreign Port or Place in or
at which the Master or other Person having or taking the
Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel shall first
arrive, after such Purchase or Transfer of Property at Sea,
immediately after his Arrival at such Foreign Port;
but if such Master or other Person who had the Command
thereof at the Time of such Purchase or Transfer of Pro-
perty at Sea, shall not arrive at a Foreign Port, but shall
arrive at some Port of Great Britain, Guernsey, Jersey,
Man, or His Majesty's said Colonies, Plantations, Islands,
or Territories, then that the same shall be delivered
up in Manner aforesaid, within Fourteen Days after the
Arrival of such Ship or Vessel, or of the Person who had
the Command thereof in any Port of Great Britain,
Guernsey, Jersey, Man, or any of His Majesty's said
Colonies, Plantations, Islands, or Territories: PRO-
VIDED always, that if it shall happen that at the Time
of Registry of any Ship or Vessel the same shall be at any
other Port than the Port to which she belongs, so that the
Master of such Ship or Vessel cannot attend at the Port
of Registry to join with the Owner or Owners in such
Bond as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for him to give a
separate Bond, to the like Effect, at the Port where such
Ship or Vessel may then be, and the Collector and
Comptroller of such other Port shall transmit such Bond
to the Collector and Comptroller of the Port where such
Ship or Vessel is to be registered, and such Bond, and
the Bond also given by the Owner or Owners, shall to-
gether be of the same Effect against the Master and Owner
or Owners, or either of them, as if they had bound them-
selves jointly and severally in one Bond.

XXII. AND be it further enacted, That when and so often as the Master or other Person having or taking the Charge or Command of any Ship or Vessel registered in Manner herein-before directed shall be changed, the

Master (1) or Owner of such Ship or Vessel shall to be indorsed deliver (2) to the Person or Persons herein-before authorized on Certificate of Registry. to make such Registry and grant such Certificates of Registry at the Port where such Change shall take place, the Certificate of Registry belonging to such Ship or Vessel, who shall thereupon indorse and subscribe a Memorandum of such Change, and shall forthwith give Notice of the same to the proper Officer of the Port or Place where such Ship or Vessel was last registered pursuant to this Act, who shall likewise make a Memorandum of the same in the Book of Registers which is hereby directed and required to be kept (3), and shall forthwith give Notice thereof to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs; PROVIDED always, that before the Name

of such new Master shall be indorsed on the Certificate
of Registry, he shall be required to give and shall give
a Bond, in the like Penalties and under the same Condi-
tions as are contained in the Bond herein-before required
to be given at the Time of Registry of any Ship or
Vessel.

rected by the

Bond.

XXIII. AND be it further enacted, That if any Person Certificate of whatever shall at any Time have Possession of - and wil- Registry to be fully detain - any Certificate of Registry granted under given up, as dithis or any other Act, which ought to be delivered up to be cancelled according to any of the Conditions of the Bond herein-before required (4) to be given upon the Registry of any Ship or Vessel, such Person is hereby required and enjoined to deliver up such Certificate of Registry, in manner directed by the Conditions of such Bond, in the respective Cases and under the respective Penalties therein provided.

SHIP'S NAME.

XXIV. AND be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any Owner or Owners of any Ship or Vessel to give any Name to such Ship or Vessel, other than that by which she was first registered in pursuance of this other Act; AND that the Owner or Owners

or any

(1) He may be Master de facto prior to the Endorsement; Officer may refuse to let him act as Master 'till endorsed, see Cap. 107. § 125.

(2) In cases of Dispute, Possession of the Register may be Evidence of Authority to appoint a new Master. If such Possession be wrongly obtained, the rightful Party may seek his Remedy in the Provision of § 27.

Name of Vessel which has been registered never afterward to be changed.

Names to be painted on the Stern.

Penalty 1001.

same;

of all and every Ship or Vessel which shall be so registered
shall, before such Ship or Vessel, after such Registry,
shall begin to take in any Cargo, — paint or cause to be
painted in White or Yellow Letters, of a Length not less
than Four Inches, upon a Black Ground, on some con-
spicuous Part of the Stern, the Name by which such
Ship or Vessel shall have been registered pursuant to this
Act, and the Port to which she belongs, in a distinct
and legible Manner, and shall so keep and preserve the
AND that if such Owner or Owners, or Mas-
ter, or other Person having or taking the Charge or Com-
mand of such Ship or Vessel, shall permit such Ship or
Vessel to begin to take in any Cargo before the Name of
such Ship or Vessel has been so painted as aforesaid,
OR shall wilfully alter, erase, obliterate, or in anywise hide
or conceal, or cause or procure or permit the same to be
done (unless in the Case of square-rigged Vessels in Time
of War), OR shall in any written or printed Paper,
or other Document, describe such Ship or Vessel by any
Name other than that by which she was first registered
pursuant to this Act, OR shall verbally describe, or
cause or procure or permit such Ship or Vessel to be de-
scribed, by any other Name, to any Officer or Officers of
His Majesty's Revenue in the due Execution of his or
their Duty,
THEN and in every such Case such
Owner or Owners, or Master, or other Person having or
taking the Charge or Command of such Ship or Vessel,
shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds.

Builder's Certificate of Particulars of Ship.

BUILDER'S CERTIFICATE.

XXV. AND be it further enacted, That all and every Person and Persons, who shall apply for a Certificate (1) of the Registry of any Ship or Vessel, shall and they are hereby required to produce, to the Person or Persons authorized to grant such Certificate, a true and full Account, under the Hand of the Builder of such Ship or Vessel, of the proper Denomination, and of the TIME when and the

PLACE where such Ship or Vessel was built, and also an exact Account of the Tonnage of such Ship or Vessel, together with the Name of

(1) See § 2.

(which

the first Purchaser (1) or Purchasers thereof, Account such Builder is hereby directed and required to give under his Hand (2), on the same being demanded by such Person or Persons so applying for a Certificate as aforesaid), — AND shall also make Oath before the Oath to be Person or Persons (3) herein-before authorized to grant such made thereto, Certificate, (which Oath he or they is or are hereby authorized to administer), that the Ship or Vessel for which such Certificate is required is the same with that which is so described by the Builder as aforesaid.

LOST REGISTER.

ΟΙ

Certificate of

Registry lost or mislaid.

XXVI. AND be it further enacted, That if the Certificate of Registry of any Ship or Vessel shall be lost mislaid, so that the same cannot be found or obtained for the Use of such Ship or Vessel when needful, — and Proof thereof shall be made to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, such Com- Commissioners missioners (4) shall and may permit such Ship or Vessel to be registered de novo, and a Certificate thereof to be granted: PROVIDED always, that if such Ship or Vessel be absent and far distant from the Port to which she belongs, cence. or by reason of the Absence of the Owner or Owners, or of any other Impediment, Registry of the same cannot then be made in sufficient Time, such Commissioners

may permit Registry de novo;

or grant a Li

Bond respecting lost Certificate of Regis

shall and may grant a Licence for the present Use of such Ship or Vessel, which Licence shall, for the Time and to the Extent specified therein and no longer, be of the same Force and Virtue as a Certificate of Registry granted under this Act: PROVIDED always, that before such Registry de novo be made, the Owner or Owners and Master shall give Bond to the Commissioners aforesaid, in such Sum as to them shall seem fit, with a Condition that if the Certificate of Registry shall at any Condition. Time afterwards be found, the same shall be forthwith delivered to the proper Officers of His Majesty's Customs to be cancelled, and that no illegal Use has been or shall

try:

It

(1) This may be the Person or Persons for whom the Vessel was built. is not necessary that the Persons applying for the Certificate of Registry should be the first Purchasers, or produce any Proof of Purchase from them. It will be seen that no Bill of Sale is required, except for Changes of Property after Registry, see $ 31. See Oath by subscribing Owners, § 14. And for Shares of original Owners, upon Registry de novo, § 34.

(2) See Penalty for false Certificate, § 49.