STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1319 



778 No. 164. 1789, September 1 : Extract from United States Stat- 

 ute^ Cap. 11. 



CHAP. XI. An Act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting 

 trade, and for other purposes. 



SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That from and after the tenth 

 day of September next, every ship or vessel of the burthen of twenty 

 tons or upwards, built within the United States, and wholly owned 

 by a citizen or citizens thereof; or not built within the United States, 

 and on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and 

 eighty-nine, wholly owned and thereafter continuing to be owned 

 by a citizen or citizens of the United States, but not registered, if 

 destined from district to district, or to the bank or whale fisheries, 

 shall, in order to be entitled to all the privileges of a ship or vessel 

 belonging to the United States, employed in the coasting trade or 

 in the fisheries, be enrolled by the collector of the district where 

 the owner, or one of the owners of such vessel may reside, and every 

 vessel so enrolled, shall have her name and the name of the place 

 to which she belongs painted on her stern, in manner directed by 

 this act, for registered vessels, and such collector on due proof by 

 oath or affirmation to him made by the owner or one of the owners 

 of such ship or vessel of her name, burthen and denomination, and 

 that she is of the description aforesaid, and of the names of the 

 owner or owners, and of the master thereof, and that they are citi- 

 zens of the United States, and of the place or places of residence 

 of such owner or owners, shall enroll in a book to be kept for that 

 purpose, the name of every such vessel, her burthen, where built, 

 and denomination, the name or names, and place or places of resi- 

 dence of the owner or owners thereof, and that he or they, together 

 with the master, are citizens of the United States, a description of 

 the built of such vessel as aforesaid, and the date of the enrolment, 

 and shall also grant to the owner or owners, a certificate, containing 

 a copy of such enrolment, and transmit to the secretary of the treas- 

 ury a copy of every such certificate of enrolment, to be by him re- 

 corded: and whenever the property of such ship or vessel shall be 

 changed in whole or in part, the person or persons who shall then be 

 owner or owners, or one of them, shall make known such change to 

 the collector of the district where he or they may reside, and such 

 collector is hereby authorized and directed to grant a new certificate 

 of the enrolment of such ship or vessel by her former name, to such 

 owner or owners, upon his or their delivering up the former certifi- 

 cate, which shall be sent to the office of the collector from whence it 

 was issued, to be cancelled: Provided, That the master or owner 

 of every vessel of less than twenty tons burthen, and not less than 

 five tons, which shall be employed between any of the districts in the 

 United States, shall cause the name of such vessel and of the place 

 to which she belongs, to be painted on her stern in manner directed 

 by this act for registered vessels, and shall annually procure a license 

 from the collector of the district to which such vessel belongs, who 

 is hereby authorized to give the same, purporting that such vessel is 

 exempt from clearing and entering for the term of one year from the 

 date thereof; and the master or owner of every such vessel shall give 



