OATH-continued.

false, deemed Perjury

for Joint Stock Companies

for Corporate Bodies

for Licence in case of lost Certificate

of Allegiance to Foreign State

OFFICERS authorized to register Ships in different

Places

Sect.

49

33

14

26

13

3

14

13

OWNERS to be British Subjects

Persons disqualified to be

or Master to agree in Description of Vessel

Residence of, to be Port of Registry

absent at Time of Registry

Number in same Ship

Joint Stock Companies

in Partnership

so deemed, notwithstanding Mortgage

residing in Foreign Country

taking Oath of Allegiance to a Foreign State

PARTNERS may own Ships

residing in Foreign Country

PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES, how to be re

32

13

50

3

11

12

30

29

except under 4 Geo. 4. c. 41., if setting

11

2

14

21

3

11

35

forth the Shares

may be endorsed at another Port
Notice of, to be given to Commissioners
may be notified on Bill of Sale

SHIPS not to have Privileges until registered
by whom and where may be registered

not registered, exercising Privileges, forfeited
what, entitled to be registered

repaired in Foreign Ports

lost, broken up, sold to Foreigners

sold as unseaworthy

captured by Enemy, or sold to Foreigners

built Abroad for Owners in United Kingdom
absent from Port at Time of Registry

SLAVE TRADE, Ships condemned for
STAMPS on Register Bond

SURVEY of Ship, for Registry
Owners to concur in

and swear to Identity of Ship

of Ship, for Licence

TRANSFERS. See Shares.

1951

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37

ANNO SEXTO

GEORGII IV. REGIS.

CA P. CX.

An Act for the registering of British Vessels.

[5th July 1825.]

W HEREAS an Act was passed in the present Session

of Parliament, intituled An Act to repeal the several 6 G. 4. c. 105. Laws relating to the Customs; in which it is declared, that the Laws of the Customs have become intricate by reason of the great Number of Acts relating thereto which have been passed through a long Series of Years; and that it is therefore highly expedient, for the Interest of Commerce and the Ends of Justice, and also for affording Convenience and Facility to all Persons who may be subject to the Operation of those Laws, or who may be authorized to act in the Execution thereof, that all the Statutes now in force relating to the Customs should be repealed, and that the Purposes for which they have from Time to Time been made should be secured by new Enactments, exhibiting more perspicuously and compendiously the various Provisions contained in them: And whereas by the said Act all the Laws relating to the registering of British Vessels will be repealed; and it is expedient to make Regulations for the registering of such Ships and Vessels, after such Repeal shall have Effect; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from Commencement and after the Fifth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, this Act shall come into and be and continue in full Force and Operation for the regis

of Act.

No Vessel to

enjoy Privileges until registered.

Certificate of
Registry.

tering of British Vessels, except where any other Commencement is herein-after particularly directed.

CERTIFICATE.

II. AND be it further enacted, That no Ship or Vessel shall be entitled to any of the Privileges or Advantages of a British registered Ship (1), until the Person or Persons claiming Property therein shall have caused the same to be registered in manner herein-after mentioned (2), and shall have obtained a Certificate of such Registry from the Person or Persons authorized to make such Registry, and grant such Certificate as herein-after directed; the Form of which Certificate shall be as follows; videlicet,

THIS is to certify, That in pursuance of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act [here insert the Title of this Act, the Names, Occupation, and Residence of the subscribing Owners], having taken and subscribed the Oath (3) required by this Act, and having sworn that [he or they] together with [Names, Occupations, and Residence of Non-subscribing Owners] [is or are] sole Owner or Owners, in the Proportions (3) specified on the Back hereof, of the Ship or Vessel called the [Ship's • Name] of [Place to which the Vessel belongs], which is of the Burthen of [Number of Tons], and whereof [Master's Name] is Master, and that the said Ship or Vessel was [when and where built, or condemned as Prize, referring to Builder's Certificate (4), Judge's Certificate (5), or • Certificate of last Registry, then delivered up to be can'celled], and [Name and Employment of surveying Officer] having certified to us that the said Ship or Vessel has [Number] Decks and [Number] Masts, that her Length from the fore Part of the Main Stem to the after Part of the Stern Post aloft is [Number of Feet and Inches], ⚫her Breadth at the broadest Part [stating whether that be above or below the Main Wales] is [Number of Feet and Inches], her [Height between Decks, if more than

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(1) No Ship admitted to be British unless duly registered, except certain Boats, &c., see Cap. 109. § 12, 13.

(2) See § 35. which provides for Ships not having completed their Voyage in Time, and preserves the Registries made under the late Act, 4 Geo. 4. Cap. 41. if the Shares be set forth. See also § 4 and Remarks,

(3) See Oath, § 14; and as to Shares, § 32.

(4) See $ 25.

(5) See § 29.

'One Deck, or Depth in the Hold, if only One Deck] is
[Number of Feet and Inches], that she is [how rigged]
'rigged with a [standing or running] Bowsprit, is [De-
'scription of Stern] sterned [Carvel or Clinker] built, has
[whether any or no] Gallery, and [Kind of Head, if any]
'Head; and the said subscribing Owners having consented
and agreed to the above Description, and having caused
'sufficient Security to be given, as is required by the said
'Act, the said Ship or Vessel called the [Name] has been
'duly registered (1) at the Port of [Name of Port].
'Certified under our Hands at the Custom House, in the
'said Port of [Name of Port] this [Date] Day of [Name
of Month] in the Year [Words at Length.]

• [Signed]
[Signed]

Collector.
Comptroller.'

And on the Back of such Certificate of Registry there shall be an Account of the Parts or Shares held by each of the Owners mentioned and described in such Certificate, in the Form and Manner following:

III. AND be it further enacted, That the Persons Persons authoauthorized and required to make such Registry and grant rized to make such Certificates shall be the Collector and Comptroller of Registry and His Majesty's Customs in any Port in the United King- cates. dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and in the Isle of Man

grant Certifi

(1) See Book of Registers, § 11. See Oath, § 14. See Survey, § 16. See Bond, § 21. See Builder's Certificate, § 25. See Certificate of Condemnation, § 29.

(2) The Names of Partners holding in Copartnership will be set forth as such, in the Place of any single Owner, connected with a Bracket, see § 32. So also would any Number of Persons holding jointly any Share or Shares, see § 33. They would in both Cases stand as one Owner, and upon Sale must all execute the Bill of Sale for any Part of the Property.