R. S., 4322. R. S., 4311,4331. R. S., 4312. R. S., 4145,4146. R. S., 4319. Act June1895. T. D. 7722. shall surrender her certificate of registry, and make oath or affirmation that the vessel and ownership remain as expressed in the surrendered certificate. In this case the temporary enrolment and license are to be surrendered to the collector within 10 days after her arrival at her home port, where permanent papers may be granted, but in no case shall temporary documents be granted to a vessel in her home port. ART. 28. Certificates of registry to vessels enrolled or licensed may issue upon the surrender of their documents and compliance with the conditions hereinafter prescribed. The certificate of registry must, in all cases, cite the enrolment by number, date and port of issue, and the description and tonnage, and will be permanent if issued at the home port. A certificate of the master carpenter or surveyor's certificate of admeasurement will not be required unless some change of tonnage has taken place since the time of enrolment. ART. 29. Vessels of 20 tons or more enrolled and having a license in force, or, if of 5 tons and less than 20 tons, not enrolled but having a license in force, may be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries. To entitle a vessel to enrolment, she must possess the same qualifications, and the same requirements and proceedings in all respects must be complied with, and the regulations in regard to officers are the same as in the case of registration. ART. 30. On application for enrolment, and compliance with the foregoing requirements, a record of the enrolment. will be made by the collector, and an abstract, or copy thereof, delivered to the owner. (Cat. No. 538.) ART. 31. No licensed vessel shall be employed in any trade whereby the revenue laws of the United States shall be defrauded. The master of every such vessel shall swear (Cat. No. 540) that he is a citizen of the United States, and that such license shall not be used for any other vessel or any other employment than that for which it was specially granted, or in any trade or business whereby the revenue of the United States may be defrauded; and if such vessels be less than twenty tons burden, the husband or managing owner shall swear that she is wholly the property of citizens of the United States; whereupon it shall be the duty of the collector of the district comprehending the port whereto such vessel may belong to grant a license. The names of all the owners and the proportion or share owned by each, must be inserted in the licenses of vessels under 20 tons, as in the case of enrolment. If the vessel be less than 20 tons burden, the husband or managing owner must also make oath or affirmation in the following form: I, FORM NO. 4. Oath or affirmation of husband or managing owner. husband or managing owner, do swear (or affirm) is at present master, is wholly the property of a citizen or citizens of Subscribed, &c. -). 19, 1886. If the master of such vessel under 20 tons burden be also the ship's husband or managing owner, both the foregoing oaths or affirmations may be combined in one. These requirements having been complied with, the collector shall issue a license to the vessel in the prescribed form (Cat. Nos. 541 and 542) showing the names of the owners. ART. 32. Every vessel of 20 tons or upwards, entitled,Sec.7.act June to be documented as a vessel of the United States, other than registered vessels, found trading between district and district, or between different places in the same district, or carrying on the fishery, without being enrolled and licensed, and every vessel of less than 20 tons and not less than 5 tons burden found trading or carrying on the fishery as aforesaid without a license obtained as provided by this title, shall be liable to a fine of $30 at every port of arrival without such enrolment or license. But if the license shall have expired while the vessel was at sea, and there shall have been no opportunity to renew such license, then said fine of $30 shall not be incurred. ART. 33. The same forms will be observed in the enrol- R.S., 4316, 4317. ment and license of a steamboat owned in whole or in part by a resident alien, employed only in a river or bay of the United States, except that the usual oath as to citizenship. will be dispensed with, and a bond required, in the penalty of $1,000, with sufficient security, conditioned that the said boat shall not be employed in other waters than the rivers and bays of the United States. Such a vessel being debarred from receiving ordinary papers on account of ownership will, on becoming the property of citizens of the United States, enjoy all the privileges of a vessel of the United States, and be documented as such. R. S., 2626. R.S., 2630, 2633, 4344, 4345, 4346. R. S., 4323. R. S., 4328; act April 17, 1874. R. S., 4333; T. D. 10423. R.S., 4385; acts April 17, 1874; 7. ART. 34. Certificates of enrolment and license must be in prescribed form, Cat. No. 538, Cat. No. 541, Cat. No. 542, and must be signed and sealed by the collector, and if there be a naval officer at the port, must be countersigned under seal by him. If there be a surveyor, but no naval officer at the port, they must be countersigned by the surveyor. Surveyors and deputy collectors of customs at ports of delivery, under special authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, may enroll and license vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries. ART. 35. When the license of a vessel expires while she is out of her home port, without change of ownership, or loss of enrolment or license, the license may be surrendered to the collector of the district in which the vessel may be at the time, and a temporary license may be taken instead. This temporary license must be surrendered to the collector of the home port within 10 days after the vessel's arrival therein and notice of surrender sent to the collector who granted the temporary license. ART. 36. To enable masters to change the employment of their vessels from the coasting to the foreign and from the foreign to the coasting trade, one temporary document may be surrendered for another temporary document, at any other port except the home port. Notice of such exchange is required to be given to the collector of the port at which the surrendered document was issued, and likewise to the chief customs officer at the home port. The collector of each district must number, progressively, in distinct series, both the enrolments and licenses issued by him, beginning anew at the commencement of each fiscal year, and make record thereof which shall be open to public inspection during office hours; and shall once in 3 months transmit to the Commissioner of Navigation abstracts of the enrolments which shall have been so granted by him, and also of licenses of vessels under 20 tons which shall have been surrendered to him. Copies of enrolments issued and also surrendered originals must be transmitted to the Commissioner of Navigation, as in case of certificates of registry. ART. 37. The regulations governing the documenting of June 30, 1879; vessels do not apply to any boat or lighter, not masted, or, June 19,1886,sec. if masted, not decked, employed in the harbor of any town or city; nor to any boat or vessel of less than 5 tons, nor to canal boats nor barges employed on rivers and lakes, and not conveying passengers. All other vessels engaged in trade between port and port in the United States, except as hereinafter enumerated, unless plying upon waters wholly within the limits of a State having no navigable outlet into a river or lake on which commerce with foreign nations, or among the States, or with the Indian tribes, can be carried on, must, if not registered, be duly enrolled and licensed, or licensed as herein required, or be subject to a penalty of $30 on every arrival except when such license shall have expired during a voyage where no opportunity shall have occurred to renew the same. ART. 38. The following classes of vessels, except as here- T. D. 4634, 4661, inafter provided, should be documented: Barges, lighters, and other boats provided with sail or steam motive power whether generally used or not. Also barges and boats without sail or internal motive power of their own, engaged in trade with Canada, and those without sail or steam motive power carrying passengers. Also barges and boats without sail or steam motive power of their own, if employed wholly upon the marine waters of the United States. The following vessels do not require to be documented, viz: Boats and lighters, decked and not masted, or not decked and not masted, employed within the harbor of any town or city. Canal boats and barges, boats without sail or internal motive power of their own employed wholly upon canals or on the internal waters of a State, and not engaged in trade with contiguous foreign territory. Barges and boats without sail or internal motive power of their own, plying on rivers or lakes of the United States, not engaged in trade with contiguous foreign territory, and not carrying passengers. 5323 act June 30. 1879; R. S., 4385. ART. 39. It is lawful at all times for any officer of the R. S., 4336. customs to inspect the enrolment or license of any vessel; and if the master on board of any vessel shall refuse to exhibit the same when required by such officer, he is liable to a fine of $100. Evidence of the possession of a docu ment although the document is not on board will exempt T.D. 7497, 7710 a vessel from penalty. ART. 40. Vessels of the United States navigating the R. S., 4318. waters on the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontiers otherwise than by sea, must receive special enrolment and be licensed before they can be employed on those waters. The enrolment and license shall be in the special R. S., 3114,3115, 4340; T. D. 9517. form provided for vessels in the domestic and foreign trade otherwise than by sea, viz: Cat. No. 538 for enrolments and Cat. Nos. 541 and 542 for licenses. This regulation applies to fishing vessels and to yachts not proceeding to sea. ART. 41. Before any such enrolment or license, or renewal of either, can be granted, the owner or master must make oath that all repairs put upon the vessel in a foreign country within the year immediately preceding the application have been duly accounted for, and the duties, if any, paid, and refusal or false swearing is punishable by forfeiture of the vessel. Certificates of registry are not required by law for vessels employed on the northern, northeastern, or northwestern frontiers of the United States. Such vessels are, however, in every other respect, liable to the rules, regulations, and penalties in force relating to registered and to enrolled and licensed vessels. ART. 42. When a vessel so enrolled and licensed leaves the inland waters of the frontier and engages in trade on the seaboard, she must surrender her frontier papers and take out coasting papers, and if bound on a foreign voyage partly by sea, she must take, in lieu of her frontier papers, a certificate of registry. If she sails for a frontier port, and it is intended to clear her thence for a port in the United States on the seaboard, or for a foreign port, in part by sea, she should be furnished with a certificate of registry before starting on her voyage. Vessels neglecting these precautions will be subjected to the penalties and disabilities imposed on vessels engaged in trade without legal documents. ART. 43. Whenever it shall become necessary for any vessel of the United States, in a district other than the one to which she belongs, to procure her enrolment and license, or license, or renewal thereof, the same proceedings may be had in the district in which said vessel shall then be, as are required by law in the district to which such vessel may belong, except the giving of enrolment and issuance of license. The officer before whom such proceedings shall be had shall certify the same to the collector of the district to which such vessel shall belong, who shall duly enroll the vessel and issue a license in the same form as if the application had originally been made in his office, and either deliver the said license or forward it by mail to the officer who certified to him the preliminary proceedings, and who |