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his Certificate of Eegistry for examination, either at the head 

 office in each collectorshii) or at the station through ^\'ilich it 

 was originally obtained, and the proper Officer shall sign his 

 name on the back of the said Certificate, together with the 

 date of examination, as a record of its authenticity and cor- 

 rectness. 



22. In the first week of every year each Officer of Customs or 

 of Coast Guard and each Fishery Officer shall forward to the 

 Collector of Customs of the district a list, showing the numbers 

 and classes of all boats whose Certificates of liegistry have been 

 presented for examination and endorsed in the preceding year ; 

 and a notation of all inspections of Certificates shall be made in 

 the Eegister against the name of each boat. On a change of 

 ownership, or on removal to another collectorship, of any 

 boat registered under these Regulations, a fresh Certificate of 

 liegistry must be applied for, and the former Certificate be 

 given up, in order that the same, together with the former 

 Registry, may be cancelled ; and on a change of Master due 

 notice shall be given of such change, which shall be duly noted 

 in the Register, and be endorsed on the Certificate of Registry. 

 A failure on the part of the owner of any boat to comply Avith 

 these Regulations shall subject the owner and master to the 

 same penalties that they would have incurred if the Certificate 

 of Registry had never been applied for. 



23. If any boat required to be registered, lettered, and 

 numbered in pursuance of these Regulations, and not being so 

 registered, lettered, and numbered, in the manner prescribed, 

 is used as a fishing boat, the owner and the master shall each 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. Any Sea 

 Fishery Officer may seize and detain such boat, and prevent it 

 from going to sea and from sea fishing until it is duly registered, 

 lettered, and numbered, and may for that purpose, if it is at sea, 

 take it back into the nearest or most convenient British port. 

 Such boat shall not be entitled to any of the privileges or 

 advantages of a British Sea Fishing Boat, but all obligations, 

 liabilities, and penalties with reference to such boat shall be the 

 same as if it had been duly registered. 



24. The master of every boat registered under these Regu- 

 lations shall have on board his boat at all times the Certificate 



