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Measurement of Tonnage.

Officers may

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XXIX. The Commissioners of Customs may, with the Sancbe appointed tion of the Treasury, appoint such Persons to superintend the and Regula tions made for Survey and Admeasurement of Ships as they think fit; and may, Measurement with the Approval of the Board of Trade, make such Regula

of Ships.

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Registrars of

tions for that Purpose as may be necessary; and also, with the like Approval, make such Modifications and Alterations as from Time to Time become necessary in the Tonnage Rules hereby prescribed, in order to the more accurate and uniform Application thereof, and the effectual carrying out of the Principle of Admeasurement therein adopted.

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XXX. The following Persons are required to register British British Ships. Ships, and shall be deemed Registrars for the Purposes of this Act; (that is to say,)

(1.) At any Port or Place in the United Kingdom or Isle of Man approved by the Commissioners of Customs for the Registry of Ships, the Collector, Comptroller, or other principal Officer of Customs for the Time being:

(2.) In the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, the principal Officers of Her Majesty's Customs, together with the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government of such Islands respectively :

(3.) In Malta, Gibraltar, and Heligoland, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government of such Places respectively:

(4.) At any Port or Place so approved as aforesaid within the Limits of the Charter but not under the Government of the East India Company, and at which no Custom House is established, the Collector of Duties, together with the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person administering the Government:

(5.) At the Ports of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, the Master Attendants, and at any other Port or Place so approved as aforesaid within the Limits of the Charter and under the Government of the East India Company, the Collector of Duties, or any other Person of Six Years standing in the Civil Service of the said Company who is appointed by any of the Governments of the said Company to act for this Purpose:

(6.) At every other Port or Place so approved as aforesaid within Her Majesty's Dominions abroad, the Collector, Comptroller,

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Comptroller, or other principal Officer of Customs or of
Navigation Laws, or if there is no such Officer resident at
such Port or Place, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
or other Person administering the Government of the Pos-
session in which such Port or Place is situate.

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XXXI. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or other Person Substitution of administering the Government in any British Possession Governor where any Ship is registered under the authority of this Act shall, with regard to the Performance of any Act or Thing sioners of relating to the Registry of a Ship or of any Interest therein, be Customs, and considered in all respects as occupying the Place of the Com- Justice. missioners of Customs; and any British Cousular Officer shall in any Place where there is no Justice of the Peace, be authorized to take any Declaration hereby required or permitted to be made in the Presence of a Justice of the Peace.

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XXXII. Every Registrar shall keep a Book, to be called "The Registrar to Register Book," and enter therein the Particulars herein-after keep Regisrequired to be registered.

ter Books.

XXXIII. The Port or Place at which any British Ship is Port of Regisregistered for the Time being shall be considered her Port of try of British Ship. Registry or the Port to which she belongs.

XXXIV. The following Rules shall be observed with respect Name of Ship. to the Names of British registered Ships; (that is to say,)

(1.) Before Registry the Name of each Ship and of the Port to which she belongs shall be painted on a conspicuous Part of her Stern on a dark Ground in White or Yellow Letters of a Length not less than Four Inches :

(2.) No Change shall be made in the Name of any registered Ship:

(3.) No Concealment, Absence, or avoidable Obliteration of the above Names shall be permitted, except for the Purpose of escaping Capture by an Enemy:

(4.) The Ship shall not be described by or with the Know-
ledge of the Owner or Master by any Name other than the
One by which she is registered:

And for every Breach of the above Rules or any of them the
Owner and Master shall each incur a Penalty not exceeding
One hundred Pounds.

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XXXV. Every Application for the Registry of a Ship shall Application in the Case of Individuals be made by the Person requiring to for Registry,

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by whom to be made.

Survey of
Ship.

Rules as to
Entries in
Register

Book.

Declaration of

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be registered as Owner, or by some One or more of such Persons if more than One, or by his or their duly authorized Agent, and in the Case of Bodies Corporate by their duly authorized Agent; the Authority of such Agent, if appointed by Individuals, to be testified by some Writing under the Hands of the Appointors, and if appointed by a Body Corporate, by some Instrument under the Common Seal of such Body Corporate.

XXXVI. Before Registry, the Ship shall be surveyed by a Person duly appointed under this Act; and such Surveyor shall grant a Certificate in the Form marked A. in the Schedule hereto, specifying her Tonnage, Build, and such other Particulars descriptive of the Identity of the Ship as may from Time to Time be required by the Board of Trade; and such Certificate shall be delivered to the Registrar before Registry.

XXXVII. The following Rules shall be observed with respect to Entries in the Register Book; (.hat is to say,)

(1.) The Property in a Ship shall be divided into Sixty-four Shares:

(2.) Subject to the Provisions with respect to joint Owners or Owners by Transmission herein-after contained, not more than Thirty-two Individuals shall be entitled to be registered at the same Time as Owners of any One Ship; but this Rule shall not affect the beneficial Title of any Number of Persons or of any Company represented by or claiming under or through any registered Owner or joint Owner:

(3.) No Person shall be entitled to be registered as Owner of any fractional Part of a Share in a Ship; but any Number of Persons, not exceeding Five, may be registered as joint Owners of a Ship or of a Share or Shares therein :

(4.) Joint Owners shall be considered as constituting One Person only as regards the foregoing Rule relating to the Number of Persons entitled to be registered as Owners, and shall not be entitled to dispose in severalty of any Interest in any Ship or in any Share or Shares therein in respect of which they are registered:

(5.) A Body Corporate may be registered as Owner by its Corporate Name.

XXXVIII. No Person shall be entitled to be registered as Ownership by Owner of a Ship or any Share therein until he has made and

subscribed

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subscribed a Declaration in the Form marked B. in the Sche- individual
dule hereto, referring to the Ship as described in the Certificate Owner.
of the Surveyor, and containing the following Particulars;
(that is to say,)

(1.) A Statement of his Qualification to be an Owner of a
Share in a British Ship:

(2.) A Statement of the Time when and the Place where such Ship was built, or (if the Ship is Foreign-built, and the Time and Place of building not known) a Statement that she is Foreign-built, and that he does not know the Time or Place of her building; and, in addition thereto, in the Case of a Foreign Ship, a Statement of her Foreign Name, or (in the Case of a Ship condemned) a Statement of the Time, Place, and Court at and by which she was condemned :

(3.) A Statement of the Name of the Master:

(4.) A Statement of the Number of Shares in such Ship of which he is entitled to be registered as Owner:

(5.) A Denial that, to the best of his Knowledge and Belief, any unqualified Person or Body of Persons is entitled as Owner to any legal or beneficial Interest in such Ship or any Share therein:

The above Declaration of Ownership shall be made and subscribed in the Presence of the Registrar if the Declarant reside within Five Miles of the Custom House of the Port of Registry, but if beyond that Distance in the Presence of any Registrar or of any Justice of the Peace.

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XXXIX. No Body Corporate shall be entitled to be registered Declaration of as Owner of a Ship or of any Share therein until the Secretary or Ownershi› by other duly appointed public Officer of such Body Corporate has Body Corpomade and subscribed in the Presence of the Registrar of the Port of Registry a Declaration in the Form marked C. in the Schedule hereto, referring to the Ship as described in the Certificate of the Surveyor, and containing the following Particulars; (that is to say,)

(1.) A Statement of such Circumstances of the Constitution and Business of such Body Corporate as prove it to be qualified to own a British Ship:

(2.) A Statement of the Time when and the Place where such Ship was built, or (if the Ship is Foreign-built, and

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the Time and Place of building unknown,) a Statement that she is Foreign-built, and that he does not know the Time or Place of her building; and, in addition thereto, in the case of a Foreign Ship, a Statement of her Foreign Name, or (in the Case of a Ship condemned) a Statement of the Time, Place, and Court at and by which she was condemned:

(3.) A Statement of the Name of the Master:

(4.) A Statement of the Number of Shares in such Ship of which such Body Corporate is Owner:

(5.) A Denial that, to the best of his Knowledge and Belief, any unqualified Person or Body of Perso.. is entitled as Owner to any legal or beneficial Interest in such Ship or any Share therein.

Evidence to XL. Upon the First Registry of a ship there shall, in addition be produced to the Declaration of Ownership, be produced the following on Registry. Evidence; (that is to say,)

Penalty on
Builder for

false Certifi

cate.

(1.) In the Case of a British-built Ship, a Certificate (which the Builder is hereby required to grant under his Hand) containing a true Account of the proper Denomination and of the Tonnage of such Ship as estimated by him, and of the Time when and of the Place where such Ship was built, together with the Name of the Party (if any) on whose Account he has built the same, and, if any Sale or Sales have taken place, the Bill or Bills of Sale under which the Ship or Share therein has become vested in the Party requiring to be registered as owner :

(2.) In the Case of a Foreign-Built Ship, the same Evidence as in the Case of a British-built Ship, unless the Person requiring to be registered as Owner, or, in the Case of a Body Corporate, the duly appointed Officer, declares that the Time or Place of her buiding is unknown, or that the Builder's Certificate cannot be procured, in which Case there shall be required only the Bill or Bills of Sale under which the Ship or Share therein became vested in the Party requiring to be registered as Owner thereof:

(3.) In the Case of a Ship condemned by any competent Court, an official Copy of the Condemnation of such Ship.

XLI. If any Builder wilfully makes a false Statement in any Certificate hereby required to be granted by him, he shall for every such Offence incur a Penalty not exceeding One hundred Pounds.

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