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2. Every sea fishing vessel or boat, whether registered under 

 any other Act or not, shall, except as hereinbefore provided 

 for, be lettered, numbered, and have a Certificate of liegistry, 

 and shall for that purpose be entered or registered in a Register 

 of Sea Fishing Boats to be kept at the principal office of 

 Customs in each collectorship. Application, as hereafter pre- 

 scribed, for letters, numbers, and Certificates of Registry shall 

 be made by all owners of fishing boats to the Officer of Coast 

 Guard or Fishery Officer in charge of the Station at or near the 

 place where the boat may for the time being be employed. In 

 any case where a boat belongs to a place situated at a distance 

 from a Coast Guard Station, such application may be delivered 

 to the principal Officer of Customs or to any Fishery Officer at 

 the creek or station at or nearest to the place to which the boat 

 belongs, or at which she may be temporarily employed in 

 fishing. And such application, upon being received by any 

 such Officer, shall be forthwith forwarded to the Collector of 

 Customs of the Port in which the place to which the boat belongs 

 is situated, Avho, upon the receipt of such application, shall cause 

 the boat to be registered and numbered, and grant the Certificate 

 of such Registry, and forward the same to the Officer through 

 whom the application was received, who is to deliver such 

 Certificate to the applicant. 



3. The port or place at which any British vessel or boat is 

 registered under the provisions of " The Merchant Shipping 

 ^Vct, 1854 " (17 & 18 Vict. c. 104) shall be considered the port 

 or place to which she belongs. 



4. In Scotland the Officers of the Board of British White 

 Herring Fishery shall assist the Officers of Customs and of 

 Coast Guard in the performance of the duties imposed by these 

 Regulations ; and shall, in places where there are no Coast 

 Guard, themselves discharge the duties hereby imposed upon 

 the C-oast Guard. 



5. If, in the opinion of the Collector of the Port to which any 

 boats belong, or of the Inspecting Commander or Divisional 

 Officer of the District, it is desirable, from local circumstances 

 or otherwise, that the mode of ajiplication prescribed in the 

 second article of these Regulations should be })artially modified 

 or altered, such Collector, Inspecting Commander, or Divisional 



