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Fees for registering.
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XXXVIII. And be it further enacted, That in lieu of all fees and perquisites now payable to any person or persons, on the registry of any ship or vessel so built, before the first day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, there shall be paid, on the first registry of every ship or vessel which shall be registered pursuant to this act, the following sums, by way of fees or perquisites, and no more, that is to say, by all ships or vessels decked, or of the burthen of fifteen tons, and not exceeding fifty tons, the sum of one shilling and six-pence, and no more, and by all ships or vessels exceeding fifty tons, and not exceeding one hundred tons, the sum of two shillings and six-pence, and no more, and by all ships or vessels exceeding one hundred tons, and not exceeding two hundred tons, the sum of three shillings and six-pence, and no more, and by all ships or vessels exceeding two hundred tons, the sum of five shillings, and no more, which several sums shall be payable to such officers respectively, in the same shares and proportions in which the sums now payable are distributed, and that the like fees and perquisites respectively shall be paid upon the registry of, or transfer of property in any ship or vessel, after the same shall have been registered in manner herein directed.
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