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must, if the beam is black, be marked in white oil paint, and in black oil paint if the beam is of any other color. The main beam of vessels plying upon the western rivers is considered to be the beam under the after side of the starboard hatch, and that of other vessels to be the beam under the forward side of the main hatch.

The owner may make affidavit as to marking of official number and net tonnage, if the vessel is out of the district; but as soon as the vessel shall have arrived at a place within the vessel's home district where the inspection certificate of a customs officer can be procured, such certificate must be required by the collector of customs of the district.

Art. 12. Net tonnage and draught.-The vessel's net tonnage must also be carved or permanently marked on her main beam, under a penalty of $30, on every arrival in port of the United States.

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The draught of every registered vessel shall be marked Sec. 2, act upon the stem and sternpost, in English feet or deci- 1891. meters, in either Arabic or Roman numerals. The bottom of each numeral shall indicate the draught to that line. If all the figures indicating the draught of registered vessels can not be placed on the sternpost they may be continued upward on the adjacent part.

T. D. 10830.

R. S., 1428, 2174, 4131,

act June 26,

May 28, 1896,

1898.

Art. 13. Officers of vessels to be citizens. The law requires officers of vessels of the United States to be citi- 4219; sec. 1, zens, as mentioned below, except where, on a foreign 1884: act of voyage, or on a voyage from an Atlantic to a Pacific port and of Dec. 21. of the United States, such vessel is for any reason deprived of the services of an officer below the grade of master, his place, or a vacancy caused by the promotion of another officer to such place, may be supplied by a person T. Ds. 5087, not a citizen of the United States until the first return of 9822. such vessel to its home port.

All the officers of vessels of the United States who shall have charge of a watch, including pilots, shall in all cases be citizens of the United States. The word "officers " shall include the chief engineer and each assistant engineer in charge of a watch on vessels propelled wholly or in part by steam, and after the 1st day of January, 1897, no person shall be qualified to hold a license as a commander or watch officer of a merchant vessel of the United States who is not a native-born citizen, or whose naturalization as a citizen shall not have been fully completed.

5573, 5701,

R. S., 4131.

Act Dec. 21, 1898.

The masters, chief mates, and second and third mates, if in charge of a watch, engineers, and pilots of all steam vessels, and the masters and chief mates of sail vessels of over 700 gross tons and all other vessels and barges of over 100 gross tons burden carrying passengers for hire, must be licensed and classified. It is unlawful to employ any person or for any person to serve as a master, chief mate, engineer, or pilot of any steamer, or as master of any sail vessel of over 700 gross tons who is not licensed by the inspectors, or of any other vessel over 100 gross Act Jan. 25, tons carrying pasengers for hire, who is not licensed by the United States local inspectors.

1907.

4191, 4306,

4319.

R. S., 4190, Art. 14. Marine documents.-Marine documents consist 4307, 4312, of certificates of registry, enrollments, and licenses. In addition to these, sea letters and passports for vessels in time of war may be issued through collectors of customs, on application, to registered vessels engaged in the foreign trade by sea, as an additional protection and evidence of nationality. Such sea letters and passports are in all cases to be surrendered with the certificate of registry at the expiration of the voyage.

R. S., 4155.
Cir. 4, Jan.

17674.

Art. 15. Registers.-Certificates of registry are requisite 7. 1897 T. D. for vessels of the United States engaged in the foreign trade, and are permitted to such vessels engaged in the domestic trade, under the requirement of entering at the custom-house at every port of arrival, if laden with excesses of the commodities specified in sections 4349, 4351, and 4359, R. S., or if their registers show that a rebate of duties was allowed on imported material used in the construction or repairing of the vessels, or if arriving at any district of the United States from any district other than a district in the same or an adjoining State, on the seacoast, or on a navigable river. Blank forms (Cat. No. 1265), attested under the seal of the Department of Commerce and Labor, will be furnished to collectors, by whom, and by naval officers, they are to be signed and sealed, when issued. If there be a surveyor at the port, and no naval officer, they shall be countersigned by him.

They are of two descriptions, permanent registers, granted by collectors to vessels belonging to ports within their respective districts, and temporary registers, granted by collectors to vessels not belonging to ports within their respective districts.

These two classes of registers should be distinguished from each other by plainly writing the word "permanent" or "temporary" in the margin immediately above the number, and the same rule must be observed in respect to the copies and records.

Certificates of permanent registry are to be grantedFirst. To vessels entitled to receive marine documents belonging to the district in which the application is made. Second. To vessels belonging to the district where the application is made when the former certificate of registry has been lost, destroyed, or accidentally mislaid.

Third. To vessels belonging to the district, on the surrender of a certificate of temporary registry or temporary certificate of enrollment and license.

R. S., 4167.

4 144, 4159,

Certificates of temporary registry may be granted to R. S., 4143, any vessel entitled to registry which becomes the prop- 4160, 4161. erty, in whole or in part, of a citizen of the United States while in a district other than that in which he usually resides, in which case the master shall receive such certificate which he shall surrender to the collector of the district in which the purchaser resides within 10 days after the arrival thereat of the vessel, under a penalty of $100, to be paid severally by the owner and the master for failure to surrender such certificate.

Should the purchase of a vessel as herein provided be made by the agent of a citizen who resides more than 50 miles from the port at which such purchase is made, the oath (catalogue No. 1264) shall be modified so as to express the fact of such agency.

4168, 43 22,

Art. 16. Lost register.-Whenever a vessel shall arrive R. S., 4167, within any district other than that to which she belongs, 4323. and it shall be proved by an oath that her certificate of registry has been lost, destroyed, or mislaid, the other requirements of law in such case having been complied with; or whenever an enrolled and licensed vessel shall arrive in any other district than that to which she belongs, and the master of the vessel shall surrender her enrollment and license, and make oath that the property remains as expressed in the surrendered papers, the collector may issue a certificate of temporary registry.

The penalty for neglecting to obtain a new register R. S., 4169. when required by law is the forfeiture of all the privi

leges and benefits of a vessel of the United States. For

R. S., 4147.

T. Ds., 5009, 5479, 8233.

R. S., 4142, 4143, 4144,

4155;

failure to surrender the old certificate of registry on obtaining a new one the owner is liable to a fine of $500. Art. 17. Carpenter's certificate.-In order to register a vessel of the first class, not before documented, it is necessary to produce a certificate from the master carpenter under whose direction the vessel was built that she was so built, stating the place, time, person or persons for whom built, 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 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. If the signature of the master carpenter be unknown to the collector he may require the production of a certificate of acknowledgment by the carpenter before an officer having a seal.

Any certificate in which the requirements of the law are fairly and fully complied with may be admitted; and where, from any cause, it is found impracticable to obtain the certificate of the master carpenter, other competent evidence establishing the particulars and facts required to be certified by him may be admitted with the approval of the Commissioner of Navigation.

The time of build is the year of completion. The place of build is where the hull was built. Both must be declared on all marine papers.

Art. 18. Owner's oath.-The owner or his duly constiact tuted agent must make oath or affirmation of ownership June 24, 1902. before the collector, and in all cases where there is more

R. S., 4143.

than one owner the parts or proportions of the vessel
owned by each must be stated in the oath, and if the
master is not a native of the United States the means
whereby he became a citizen must be sworn to by him if he
be within the district where the vessel is to be registered.
If any
of the matters of fact contained in the oath or
affirmation be false there shall be a forfeiture of the vessel,
her tackle, furniture, and apparel, or the value thereof, to
be recovered, with costs of suit, from the person making
such oath or affirmation; but if that portion relating to
the citizenship of the master prove false, the master or
other person in charge so fasely swearing or affirming
shall himself forfeit the sum of $1,000.

The owners, or one of the owners, must make oath or affirmation before the collector according to the following forms catalogue Nos. 1262, 1263:

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R. S., 4142, 4143, 4144.

Collector.

If the vessel be of the third class, the following clause must be substituted for the portion in brackets marked *:

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