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intituled "An Act more effectually to secure the Performance of Qua- 28 G. 3. c. 34. rantine, and for amending several Laws relating to the Revenue of Customs," as relates to masters of ships or vessels detaining the certificates of registry of the same; and also so much of an act passed in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act for the further Encouragement of British Mariners, 34 G. 3. c. 68. and for other Purposes therein mentioned," as relates to the transfer or contract, or agreement for transfer, and the alteration of property in any ship or vessel, and as relates to the certificate of registry being withheld or detained by the master of the ship or vessel, and as relates to the registering a ship or vessel de novo, under the several circumstances therein mentioned; and also the whole of an act passed in the forty-eighth year

of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An 48 G. 3. c. 70. Act to provide that British Ships which shall be captured by the enemy, and shall afterwards become the Property of British Subjects, shall not be entitled to the Privileges of British ships ;" and also the whole of an act passed

in the forty-ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled " An Act to 49 G. 3. c. 41. amend an Act made in the Forty-eighth Year of his present Majesty, to provide that British Ships captured by the Enemy, becoming the property of British subjects, shall not be entitled to the privileges of British Ships;" and also so much of an act passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his said late Majesty, intituled "An Act to make further Regulations for the Registry of 55 G. 3. c. 116. Ships built in India," as relates in any way to the registering of ships or vessels in India; and also the whole of an act passed in the fifty-ninth year of '

the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to 59 G. 3. c. 5. ascertain the Tonnage of Vessels propelled by Steam ;" and also so much

of an act passed in the first year of the reign of his present Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for granting the Privileges of 1 G. 4. c. 9. British Ships to Vessels built at Malta, Gibraltar, and Heligoland, and certain of those Privileges to Vessels built in the British Settlements at Honduras," as relates to the registering of ships or vessels at Malta, Gibraltar, and Heligoland; and also all and every other act, or so much of any other act passed in Great Britain or in Ireland, as relates in any way to the registering of ships and vessels; shall be and the same are hereby respectively repealed.

II. And be it further enacted, that from and after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, no ship or vessel having a deck, or being of the burthen of fifteen tons or upwards, shall be entitled to any of the privileges or advantages of a British ship, until the person or persons claiming property therein shall have caused the same to be registered in manner hereinafter mentioned, and shall have obtained a certificate of such registry from the person or persons authorized to make such registry and grant such certificate as hereinafter directed; the form of which certificate shall be as follows; videlicet,

No vessel to enjoy privileges until register

ed.

THIS is to certify, that in pursuance of an act passed in the fourth Certificate of year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act [here registry. insert the title of the act, the names, occupation, and residence of the "subscribing owners], having taken and subscribed the oath 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 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, judge's "certificate, 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 one deck, or depth in the hold, if only one deck], is [num'ber of feet and inches], that she is [how rigged] rigged with a [stand 'ing or running] bowsprit, is [description 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 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.]

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[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 form and manner following:

"Names of the several owners
'within mentioned.

Number of sixty-fourth shares held by each owner.

Thirty-two.

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27 G. 3. c. 19. Provided always, that nothing in this act shall extend to require any vessel not exceeding the burthen of thirty tons, and not having a whole or a fixed deck, and being employed solely in the fishery on the banks or shores of Newfoundland, and of the parts adjacent, or on the banks or shores of the provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the gulf of Saint Lawrence, and on the north of Cape Canso, or of the islands within the same, or in trading coast wise within the said limits, to be registered so long as such vessel shall be solely so employed.

Persons authorized to make registry and grant certificates.

III. And be it further enacted, that the persons authorized and required to make such registry and grant such certificates, shall be the collector and comptroller of his Majesty's customs in any port in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and in the Isle of Man respectively, in respect of ships or vessels to be there registered; and the principal officers of his Majesty's customs in the island of Guernsey or Jersey, together with the governor, lieutenant governor, or comman der in chief of those islands respectively, in respect of ships or vessels to be there registered; and the collector and comptroller of his Majesty's customs of any port in the colonies, plantations, islands, and territories to his Majesty belonging in Asia, Africa, and America, together with the

Provision as to vessels registered at Malta, Gibraltar, or Heligoland.

governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of such colonies, plantations, islands, and territories respectively, in respect of ships or vessels to be there registered; and the collector of duties at any port in the territories under the government of the East India Company, and other territories belonging to his Majesty within the limits of the charter of the said company, payable to the said company, or any other person of the rank, in the said company's service, of senior merchant, or of six years' standing in the said service, being respectively appointed to act in the execution of this act, by any of the governments of the said company in India, in any ports in which there shall be no collector and comptroller of his Majesty's customs in respect of ships or vessels to be there registered; and the governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of Malta, Gibraltar, Heligoland and Cape of Good Hope respectively in respect of ships or vessels to be there registered: provided Provision as to always, that no ship or vessel registered by such collector or other person vessels regisin India shall be entitled to the privileges and advantages of British tered in India. ships in any trade or voyages beyond the limits of the said company's charter, other than and except such as are specified in an act passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, and made for the regulation, among other things, of the trade to and from the places within the said company's charter, and in other subsequent acts made and passed or to be hereafter made and passed for the further regulation of the trade to and from such places: provided also, that no ship or vessel shall be registered at Malta, Gibraltar, or Heligoland, except such as are wholly of the built of those places respectively, and such ships or vessels shall not be registered elsewhere; and that such ships or vessels so registered shall not be entitled to the privileges and advantages of British ships in any trade between the said United Kingdom and any of the colonies, plantations, islands, or territories in America to his Majesty belonging: provided also, that wherever in and by this act it is directed or provided that any act, matter, or thing shall and may be done or performed by, to, or with any collector and comptroller of his Majesty's customs, the same shall or may be done or performed by, to, or with the principal officers of customs in the islands of Guernsey or Jersey, together with the governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of those islands respectively; and also by, to, or with such collector or other person in India, in the service of the East India Company as aforesaid; and also by, to, or with the governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of Malta, Gibraltar, Heligoland, or Cape of Good Hope, and according as the same act, matter, or thing is to be done or performed at the said several and respective places, and within the jurisdiction of the said several persons respectively: provided also, that wherever in and by this act it is directed or provided that any act, matter, or thing shall or may be done or performed by, to, or with the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, the same shall or may be done or performed by, to, or with the said commissioners, or any two or more of them in England, Ireland, or Scotland respectively; and also by, to, or with the governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief of any place where any ship or vessel may be registered under the authority of this act, so far as such act, matter, or thing can be applicable to the registering of any ship or vessel at such place.

IV. And be it further enacted, that from and after the said thirtyfirst day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, in case any ship or vessel, not being duly registered, and not having obtained such certificate of registry as aforesaid, shall exercise any of the

Certain powers of collectors and comptrollers, by whom to be exercised

in certain cases.

Acts may be

done by two commissioners of customs in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and by governors, &c. where vessels may be registered.

Ships exercising privileges before registry

to be forfeited.

But not to af

fect vessels already registered till required to be registered de

novo.

What ships are entitled to be registered.

Foreign repairs not to exceed 20s. per ton.

privileges of a British ship, the same shall be subject to forfeiture, and also all the guns, furniture, ammunition, tackle and apparel to the same ship or vessel belonging, and shall and may be seized by any officer or officers of his Majesty's customs: provided always, that nothing in this act shall extend or be construed to extend to affect the privileges of any ship or vessel which shall have been registered by virtue of any act or acts in force for the registry of British ships, and granting certificates thereof prior to the said thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, until such time or times as such ships or vessels shall be required by this act to be registered de novo, under the regulations thereof.

V. And be it further enacted, that no ship or vessel shall be registered, or, having been registered, shall be deemed to be duly registered by virtue of this act, except such as are wholly of the built of the said United Kingdom, or of the Isle of Man, or of the islands of Guernsey or Jersey, or of some of the colonies, plantations, islands, or territories in Asia, Africa, or America, or of Malta, Gibraltar, or Heligoland, which belong to his Majesty, his heirs or successors, at the time of the building of such ships or vessels; or such ships or vessels as shall have been condemned in any court of admiralty as prize of war, or such ships or vessels as shall have been condemned in any competent court for the breach of the laws made for the prevention of the slave trade, and which shall wholly belong ́and continue wholly to belong, to his Majesty's subjects duly entitled to be owners of ships or vessels registered by virtue of this act.

VI. And be it further enacted, that no ship or vessel shall continue to enjoy the privileges of a British ship after the same shall have been repaired in a foreign country, if such repairs shall exceed the sum of twenty shillings for every ton of the burthen of the said ship or vessel, unless such repairs shall have been necessary by reason of extraordinary damage sustained by such ship or vessel during her absence from his Majesty's dominions to enable her to perform the voyage in which she shall have been The master on engaged, and to return to some port or place of the said dominions; and

arrival to re

port such repairs.

Necessity of
such repairs
to be proved
to commis-
sioners of cus-
toms.

Ships declared

whenever any ship or vessel, which has been so repaired in a foreign country, shall arrive at any port in his Majesty's dominions, as a British registered ship or vessel, the master or other person having the command or charge of the same shall, upon the first entry thereof, report upon oath to the collector and comptroller of his Majesty's customs at such port, that such ship or vessel has been so repaired, under penalty of twenty shillings for every ton of the burthen of such ship or vessel, according to the admeasurement thereof; and if it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, that such ship or vessel was sea-worthy at the time when she last departed from any port or place in his Majesty's dominions, and that no greater quantity of such repairs have been done to the said vessel than was necessary as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, upon a full consideration of all the circumstances, to direct the collector and comptroller of the port where such ship or vessel shall have arrived, or where she shall then be, to certify on the certificate of the registry of such ship or vessel, that it has been proved to the satisfaction of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, that the privileges of the said ship or vessel have not been forfeited, notwithstanding the repairs which have been done to the same in a foreign country.

VII. And be it further enacted, that if any ship or vessel registered under the authority of this or any other act, shall be deemed or declared lost or broken to be stranded or unseaworthy, and incapable of being recovered or re

unseaworthy to be deemed ships

up.

paired to the advantage of the owners thereof, and shall for such reasons be sold by order or decree of any competent court for the benefit of the owners of such ship or vessel, or other persons interested therein, the same shall be taken and deemed to be a ship or vessel lost or broken up, to all intents and purposes within the meaning of this act, and shall never again be entitled to the privileges of a British-built ship, for any purposes of trade or navigation.

VIII. And be it further enacted, that no British ship or vessel which has been or shall hereafter be captured by, and become prize to an enemy, or sold to foreigners, shall again be entitled to the privileges of a British ship provided always, that nothing contained in this act shall extend to prevent the registering of any ship or vessel whatever, which shall be condemned in any court of admiralty as prize of war, or in any competent court for breach of laws made for the prevention of the slave

trade.

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But ships conCourts of Admiralty may be registered. Ships shall be registered at the they belong.

demned in

port to which

Commissioners

of customs may permit registry

IX. And be it further enacted, that no such registry shall hereafter be made, or certificate thereof granted, by any person or persons hereinbefore authorized to make such registry, and grant such certificate, in any other port or place than the port or place to which such ship or vessel shall properly belong, except so far as relates to such ships or vessels as shall be condemned as prizes in any of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, or Man; which ships or vessels shall in future be registered in manner hereinafter directed; but that all and every registry and certificate granted in any port or place to which any such ship or vessel does not properly belong, shall be utterly null and void to all intents and purposes, unless the officers aforesaid shall be specially authorized and empowered to make such registry, and grant such certificate in any other port, by an order in writing under the hands of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs, which order the said commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to issue in manner aforesaid, if they shall see fit; and at every port where registry shall be made in pursuance of this act, a book shall be Book of Regiskept by the collector and comptroller, in which all the particulars con- ters to be kept. tained in the form of the certificate of registry herein before directed to be used shall be duly entered; and every registry shall be numbered in progression, beginning such progressive numeration at the commencement of each and every year; and such collector and comptroller shall forthwith, or within one month at the farthest, transmit to the commissioners of his Majesty's customs a true and exact copy, together with the number of every certificate which shall be by them so granted.

at other ports.

Ports to which vessels shall be

deemed to belong.

Change of subscribing owners to require registry de novo.

X. And be it further enacted, that every ship or vessel shall be deemed to belong to some port at or near to which some or one of the owners who shall take and subscribe the oath required by this act, before registry be made, shall reside; and whenever such owner or owners shall have transferred all his or their share or shares in such ship or vessel, the same shall be registered de novo, before such ship or vessel shall sail or depart from the port to which she shall then belong, or from any other port which shall be in the same part of the United Kingdom, or the same colony, plantation, island, or territory as the said port shall be in: provided always, that if the owner or owners of such ship or vessel cannot in sufficient time comply with the requisites of this act, so that registry may go one voyage be made before it shall be necessary for such ship or vessel to sail or de- with permispart upon another voyage, it shall be lawful for the collector and comp- sion indorsed troller of the port where such ship or vessel may then be, to certify upon of registry. the back of the existing certificate of Registry of such ship or vessel, that the same is to remain in force for the voyage upon which the said ship or

If registry de novo cannot be made, ship may

on certificate

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