CHAPTER I. OF THE REGISTERING, ENROLLING AND LICENSING, LICENSING, cessary to vessels Ships or vessels possessed of the following marine papers, regularly and Marine papers nelegally issued, and in force, and no other, are deemed and denominated of the United ships or vessels of the United States, viz: registers, enrolments, and licenses. States. vessels are deem determined. 1792. All ships or vessels shall be deemed to belong to the port at or nearest to The ports to which which the owner resides, if there be but one owner, or if there be more ed to belong; how than one owner, to the port at or nearest to which the husband or acting sec. 3 Act Dec. 31, or managing owner usually resides. The name of every vessel and the port to which she belongs must be painted Name of vessel to be painted on her on her stern, in white letters of not less than three inches in length, on stern. black ground. Sec. 3 Act Dec. 31, 1792. Sec. 11 Act Feb. 18, 1793. SECTION I. VESSELS ENTITLED TO REGISTRY. acter of registered ARTICLE 1. Registered vessels are those wholly owned Distinctive charby citizens of the United States, and usually employed in vessels. a foreign trade, and possessed of certificates of registry. Vessels entitled to be registered under existing laws, are the United States, citizens thereof. First. Those built within the United States, and, at Vessels built in the time of application for registry, wholly owned by a owned wholly by citizen or citizens of the United States, never having been Sec.2 Act Dec. 81, before documented as vessels of the United States and sold to a citizen or subject of a foreign power. 1792. in the United States, ership. Second. Vessels built in the United States under foreign Vessels built ownership, in whole or in part, duly recorded in pursu- under foreign ownance of law, on being purchased and wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, never having been registered, enrolled, or licensed under the laws of the United States. Vessels built in Third. Vessels built in a foreign country, and wrecked a foreign country wrecked in waters within the waters of the United States, purchased and of the United States. 1852. Vessels Sec. 1 Act Dec. 28, repaired by a citizen or citizens thereof, at a cost equal to three-fourths of the cost of the vessel when repaired. captured Fourth. Vessels captured in a war to which the United Sec. 2 Act Dec. 81, States are a party, by a citizen or citizens thereof, lawfully condemned as prize, and wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States. in war. 1792. Vessels condemn. Fifth. Vessels which have been adjudged to be forfeited breach of United for a breach of the laws of the United States, and wholly ed and forfeited for States laws. Sec. 2 Act Dec. 81, owned by a citizen or citizens thereof. 1792. SECTION II. ON THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF PERMANENT AND Permanent and temporary certifi ART. 2. Certificates of registry may be considered as of cates of registry. two descriptions, viz: How to be distinguished on certifi copies. Permanent registers, being those granted by collectors to ships or vessels belonging to ports within their respective districts; Temporary registers, being those granted by collectors to ships or vessels not belonging to ports within their respective districts. Permanent certificates of registry will be distinguished cates, records, and from those that are temporary by writing the word permanent or temporary, in a strong engrossing hand, in the margin immediately above the number; and the same rule must be observed in respect to the copies and records. SECTION III. ON THE GRANTING OF CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRY. ART. 3. The requirements set forth in this section, and the forms prescribed, must be complied with, in order to the registry of a ship or vessel, and the granting of a certificate thereof, unless otherwise directed in these Regulations. registry, vessels must be ad surveyor, &c. 1792. ment. 2, 1799. 4. Before granting a certificate of registry to any ship Before or vessel, she must be admeasured by the surveyor of the measured by the port, or a person appointed by him; or, if there be no Sec 6 Act Dec. 31, surveyor, by a person appointed by the collector, according to the following rule, viz: The officer measur- Rule of admeasureing shall, if the ship or vessel be double-decked, take the Sec. 64 Act March length thereof, from the fore part of the main stem to the after part of the stern post, above the upper deck; the breadth thereof, at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and shall then deduct from the length three-fifths of the breadth; multiply the remainder by the breadth, and the product by the depth, and shall divide this last product by ninety-five, the quotient whereof shall be deemed the true contents or tonnage of such ship or vessel; and if such ship or vessel be singledecked, the said surveyor, or other person, shall take the length and breadth, as above directed in respect to a double-decked ship or vessel, shall deduct from the said length three-fifths of the breadth, and, taking the depth from the underside of the deck-plank to the ceiling in the hold, shall multiply and divide, as aforesaid, and the quotient shall be deemed the tonnage of such ship or vessel. measurement being furnished. 1792. 5. For the information of, and as a voucher to, the Certificate of adofficer making such registry, the officer or person making Sec. 6 Act Dec. 81, such admeasurement shall grant a certificate specifying the build of such ship or vessel, her number of decks and masts, her length, breadth, depth, the number of tons she measures, and that her name, and the name of the place to which she belongs, are painted on her stern, in conformity to law, and such other particulars as are usually descriptive of the identity of a ship or vessel; which certificate shall be in the form following, to wit: being no surveyor,) being hereunto appointed by- painted on her stern, according to law, and find that said vessel is Sec. 6 Act Dec. 81, 1792. certificate of the Countersigned in testimony of the truth of the particulars above mentioned, by This certificate must be countersigned by an owner, or by the master of the vessel, or by the agent of the owner or owners. Before registry, 6. In order to the registry of any ship or vessel, it is builder to be fur- necessary to produce a certificate under the hand of the Reg. 8 Act Dec. 31, principal or master carpenter by whom, or under whose nished. 1792. direction, the said ship or vessel was built, testifying that she was so built, the place, time, persons for whom, her build, number of decks and masts, length, breadth, depth, and tonnage; and such other particulars as are usually descriptive of the identity of a ship or vessel. This certificate will be sufficient to authorize the removal of a new vessel, if in ballast only, from the district where she may have been built to another district in the same or an adjoining State where the owner or owners actually reside. The form of the certificate is appended as a general guide, viz: 1 DISTRICT OF FORM NO. 2. Master carpenter's certificate. (Place and date.) of master carpen ter. I, , principal (or master) carpenter of (place) do Form of certificate certify, that the (ship) named the (name) was built by me, (or under my direction,) at (place where) during (time when) for (persons for whom); that said - is built, has decks, masts, is in length, in breadth, in depth, of - tons burdenAs witness my hand the day and year aforesaid. Any certificate in which the requirements of the law are fairly and fully complied with, though not precisely in the above form, will be admitted; and where, from any cause, it is found impracticable to obtain the certificate of the principal or master carpenter, other competent evidence establishing the particulars and facts required to be certified by him, may be admitted; but the production of his certificate shall not be waived, nor secondary evidence substituted therefor, without the previous authority of the Department. registry; oath of 7. The owners, or one of the owners, must take an oath On application for or affirmation before the collector, according to the pro- owner. visions of the 4th section of the act of the 31st December, 1792, in the following form, to wit: FORM NO. 3. I, Oath of owner of vessel. of in the county of and Form of owner's State of —, do swear, (or, if conscientiously scrupulous of swearing, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly affirm and declare,) according to the best of my knowledge and belief, that the ship (or vessel) called the burden in the State of tons and (Or, was on the hundred and of and was built at is of day of, one thousand eight captured in war by a citizen (or citi oath. |