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If certificate of registry be lost or mislaid, and oath be made as herein.
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XXIV. And be it further enacted, That if any ship or vessel which shall have been registered in this kingdom, according to the provisions of this act, or in any other part of his Majesty’s dominions, according to the provisions of an act made and passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, in the twenty-sixth year of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for the further increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation, shall arrive at any port or place of this kingdom, and the master or other person having or taking the charge or command of such ship or vessel shall make oath, or being a quaker, a solemn affirmation in the following form, before the officer or officers of the said port herein authorized to make registry, and grant certificates of registry, which officer or officers are hereby authorized to administer the same:
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I. A. B. being the master, or having the charge of the ship or vessel called the (naming the ship) do swear, or solemnly affirm, that the said ship or vessel has been, as I verily believe, registered according to law, and that I bad a certificate of such registry granted at the port of (naming the port) but that the same is lost or mislaid, and that I cannot find the same, and do not know where the same is, or what is become thereof, and that the same bath not been, nor shall be with my privity or knowledge sold or disposed of to any person or persons whatever, and that I, the depenent or affirmant, and three-fourths of the mariners navigating the said ship or vessel are his Majesty’s subjects, and that the said ship or vessel does new, as I verily believe, belong wholly to his Majesty’s subjects, and that no foreigner, directly or indirectly, to my knowledge or belief, has any share, property, or interest therein.
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And that if the said master, or other person navigating the said ship or vessel, shall also give good and sufficient security, in the penalty of five hundred pounds, if the ship or vessel be of the burthen of one hundred tons, or under, and so in proportion for every ship or vessel of a greater burthen, to the officer or officers aforesaid, in his Majesty’s name, and to his Majesty’s use, with condition that the said ship or vessel was duly registered according to law, at the port of (naming the port) and that the certificate of the said registry, if found, shall be delivered up to the commissioners of the revenue in this kingdom to be cancelled, and that no illegal use has been, or shall be made thereof, and that the same has not been, and shall not be fraudulently disposed of, and that the said ship or vessel does wholly belong to his Majesty’s subjects, and that no foreigner has any share, property, or interest therein, the officer or officers aforesaid, shall in such case freely, and without fee or reward, give to the said master, or other person having the charge or command of such ship or vessel, a certificate, under his or their hands and seals, of his having given such bond, and made such oath or affirmation, and thereupon the said ship or vessel shall have liberty to trade (for that voyage only) in the same manner as if the original certificate of registry had been produced, and the said certificate so to be given, shall have the same force and effect during the said voyage only as the original certificate of registry, and the officer or officers aforesaid administering the said oath or affirmation, and taking the said bond, shall transmit an account thereof to the commissioners of his Majesty’s revenue; and that if any ship or vessel shall arrive in any port or place of this kingdom, with a like certificate, granted by the proper officer or officers of any port or place in any other part of his Majesty’s dominions, pursuant to the provisions of any act or acts made and passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, such ship or vessel shall be allowed to trade in any port or place in this kingdom, for that voyage only, according to the purport of such certificate.
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