, in conformity with thousand eight hundred and Oath of citizenship; when to be taken by master or commander. On registry of vessel, not previously chased by citizens district. It must be understood, however, that when the master or commander of the steamboat or vessel shall be within the district when the application for registry shall be made, he is himself, instead of the president or secretary, to take the oath as to his citizenship, and state the means whereby or manner in which he became a citizen. It will be necessary when the vessel was not built in the United States, but was condemned for violations of the laws, or as prize in war, or wrecked, and authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to be registered in conformity with law, to substitute in the oath for "and was built at in the State of in the year of was condemned for a violation of the laws of the United States, or as a lawful prize, as the case may be, or was wrecked in the waters of the United States, and authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to be registered in pursuance of law. 18. Should any citizen or citizens of the United States documented, pur purchase, or become owners of any vessel of any of the out of their proper descriptions mentioned in this section, entitled to be registered as a vessel of the United States, such vessel being within any district other than that in which he or they usually reside, such vessel will be duly registered by the collector of the district within which she may be, who will grant a temporary certificate thereof, the owner or owners complying with the requirements specified in this section, in respect to the class or description to which such vessel may belong-the owner's oath being taken either before the collector of the district to which the vessel belongs or before the collector of that within which she may then be, in accordance with article 12. On registry of vessel purchased by 19. Should any vessel belonging to any of the descripagent or attorney tions mentioned in this section, entitled to registry as a while in a district from her proper district. more than 50 miles vessel of the United States, be purchased by an agent or attorney for or on account of a citizen or citizens of the United States-such vessel being in a district more than fifty miles distant by the nearest usual route by land from the one to which the vessel belongs-upon such agent or attorney complying with the requirements specified in this section, in respect to the class or description to which the vessel may belong, and with the provisions of article 13, the collector will duly register such vessel, and grant a temporary certificate thereof. 20. The provisions of law in regard to the issue of temporary certificates of registry, referred to in articles 12 and 13 of these Regulations, and their due surrender to collectors on arrival at the home port, will be carefully observed, and the penalties therein prescribed, when incurred, will be rigorously enforced. SECTION VI. ON REGISTERING OF VESSELS PREVIOUSLY DOCUMENTED AS new admeasurement is required. ART. 21. In cases where a ship or vessel has been before When registered, a new admeasurement is not necessary, except Sec. 6 Act Dec. 31, she has undergone some alteration as to her burden sub-1792. sequent to her former registry, and in her new certificate of registry, that part of Form No. 5, referring to her tonnage, must be so varied as to refer to her former certificate of registry for her admeasurement. Requirements of or transfer of a regis Sec. 14 Act Dec. 22. When any ship or vessel, once registered in pursu-on sale ance of law, shall, in whole or in part, be sold or trans- tered vessel. ferred to a citizen or citizens of the United States, such 81, 1792.1 ship or vessel must be registered anew by her former name, (unless changed by authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, as hereinafter provided,) otherwise she will cease to be a vessel of the United States. In every such sale or transfer, there must be some instrument of writing, in the nature of a bill of sale, which shall recite at length her former certificate of registry, and also set forth the part of the vessel owned by each person selling, and the part conveyed to each person purchasing. proper bill of sale being produced to the collector, the oath taken, as per Form 3 or 6, (as the case may be,) and bond given, as per Form 4, a new certificate of registry may A Requirements on arrival in the Uni be issued, as per Form 5. It will not be necessary to produce a master carpenter's certificate, or the surveyor's certificate of admeasurement, if she has undergone no alteration in burden since her last registry; and in the new certificate of registry reference must be made to her last certificate of registry for the admeasurement of such ship or vessel. At the time application is made for the new certificate of registry, the former certificate of registry of the vessel must be surrendered to the collector to whom the application for such new registry is made, and by him be transmitted to the Register of the Treasury for cancellation. If the former certificate of registry be not delivered up as aforesaid, unless on oath or affirmation of its loss, destruction, or mislaying, as hereinafter prescribed, her owner or owners shall forfeit five hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit. 23. Any ship or vessel registered in pursuance of law, ted States of a reg which shall be sold or transferred, in whole or in part, istered vessel sold abroad. Sec. 8 Act March 2,1803. or transferred to a citizen or citizens of the United States, while such ship or vessel is without the limits of the United States, shall, on her first arrival in the United States thereafter, be entitled to all the privileges and benefits of a ship or vessel of the United States, if a new certificate of registry be obtained, on due compliance with the law regulating the issue of certificates of registry, within three days after the time (48 hours after arrival) the master or commander is required to make a final report after his arrival in a port of the United States. Registered vessels owned by naturalized citizens, in not entitled to ben certain cases. 24. No ship or vessel shall be entitled to be registered whole or in part, as a ship or vessel of the United States, or, if registered, efits of registry in to the benefits of such registry, if owned, in whole or in Act March 27, 1804. part, by any person naturalized in the United States and residing for more than one year in the country from which he originated, or for more than two years in any foreign. country, unless in the capacity of a consul or other public If sold to a citizen agent of the United States. But a vessel so owned and States, entitled to registered, if sold, in good faith, to a citizen of the United States, may, on satisfactory proof of such citizenship to the collector, and due compliance with the other provisions of law, be registered anew as a ship or vessel of the United States. of the United new registry. transferred by pro register withheld. 25. On proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treas- Vessels sold and ury, that any ship or vessel has been sold and transferred by cess of law, and process of law, and that her certificate of registry is re- Act March 2, 1797. tained by the former owners, the Secretary of the Treasury may direct the collector of the district to which the vessel belongs, to grant a new certificate of registry, on the owners under such sale complying with the terms and conditions required by law for granting such certificates, excepting only the surrender of the former certificate of registry. It is to be understood, however, that the issue of the new certificate, notwithstanding the non-delivery of the former certificate, does not remove the liability of the person or persons to the penalty for not surrendering the same, which it is the duty of the collector to take the proper legal steps promptly to enforce. built of law when a regis tered vessel is al tered in form or burden. mode sec. 14 Act Dec. 31, 1792. 26. When any vessel registered in pursuance of law is Requirements altered, in form or burden, by being lengthened or upon, or from one denomination to another by the or method of rigging or fitting, such ship or vessel must be registered anew by her former name, (unless changed by authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, as hereafter provided,) otherwise she shall cease to be deemed a ship or vessel of the United States. In order to the new registry of a registered vessel so altered in form, burden, or denomination, (her ownership remaining the same,) the owner's oath must be taken, as per Form 3, the certificate of admeasurement produced, as per Form 1, and the bond given, as per Form 4, when the certificate may be issued by the collector, as per Form 5. It will be understood, however, that, on applications for new papers, no master carpenter's certificate is required to prove that a vessel once duly registered was built in the United States. At the time of application for a new registry and a certificate thereof, the former certificate must be surrendered to the collector, and transmitted by him to the Register of the Treasury for cancellation. For the non-surrender of the former certificate of registry, (unless lost, destroyed, or mislaid,) the same forfeitures will be incurred as in case of non-surrender on sale or transfer of a vessel, as stated in article 22. in Requirements try has been lost, laid. 27. If the certificate of the registry of any ship or vescertificate of regis- sel shall be lost, destroyed, or mislaid, the master or other destroyed, or mis- person having charge or command thereof may make and Sec. 13 Act Dec. subscribe an oath or affirmation, before the collector of the district where such ship or vessel shall first be after such loss, destruction, or mislaying, in the form following, to wit: 81, 1792. Form of oath of master of loss, &c., of certificate of registry. FORM No. 8. Oath of master to loss of certificate. I, (inserting here the name of the person swearing or affirming,) being master (or having charge or command) of the ship (or vessel) called the (inserting the name of the vessel) do swear (or affirm) that the said ship (or vessel) has been, as I verily believe, registered according to law, by the name of (inserting again the name of the vessel,) and that a certificate thereof was granted by the collector of the district of (naming the district where registered,) which certificate has been lost, (or destroyed, or unintentionally and by mere accident, mislaid, as the case be,) and (except where the certificate is alleged to have been destroyed) that the same, if found again, and within my power, shall be delivered up to the collector of the district in which it was granted. The oath or affirmation having been thus taken and subscribed, the owner's oath taken and subscribed, as per Form 3, the certificate of the surveyor of the admeasurement furnished, as per Form 1, and the bond given, as per Form 4, the collector of the port where the vessel may be shall register said vessel, and issue a certificate thereof, according to Form 5, inserting therein that the same is issued in place of one lost, destroyed, or mislaid, as the case may be. If the certificate of registry be thus granted by a collector other than the collector of the district where the vessel belongs, such temporary certificate shall, within ten days after her first arrival within the district to which she belongs, be delivered up to the collector of said district, who |