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Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, the 5th day of 

 October, A. D. 1830, and the fifty-fifth of the Independence of the 

 United States. 



ANDREW JACKSON. 

 By the President: 



M. VAN BUREN, 



Secretary of State. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE REVISED STATUTES OF THI3 UNITED 

 STATES, 1878, RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE 

 AND NAVIGATIONS 



TITLE XLVIII. 



REGULATION OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. 



Chapter One. 



Registry and, Recording. 

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SEC. 4131. Vessels registered pursuant to law and no others, except 

 such as shall be duly qualified according to law for carrying on the 

 coasting or fishing trade, shall be deemed vessels of the United States, 

 and entitled to the benefits and privileges appertaining to such ves- 

 sels; but no such vessel shall enjoy such benefits and privileges longer 

 than it shall continue to be wholly owned by a citizen or citizens of 

 the United States or a corporation created under the laws of any of 

 the States thereof, and be commanded by a citizen of the United 

 States. And 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 first day of 

 January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no person shall be quali- 

 fied 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. [As 

 amended by Sec. 1, Chap. 255, Act of Congress of May 28, 1896.1 



SEC. 4132. Vessels built within the United States, and belonging 

 wholly to citizens thereof, and vessels which may be captured in war 

 by citizens of the United States, and lawfully condemned as prize, 

 or which may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of 

 the United States, being wholly owned by citizens, and no others, may 

 be registered as directed in this Title. 



SEC. 4133. No vessel shall be entitled to be registered, or, if regis- 

 tered, to the benefits of registry, if owneji, in whole or in part by any 

 citizen of the United States who usually resides in a foreign country, 

 during the continuance of such residence, unless such citizen be a 

 consul of the United States, or an agent for and a partner in some 

 house of trade or copartnership, consisting of citizens of the United 

 States actually carrying on trade within the United States.* 



6 Repealed by sec. 16, chap. 389, act of Congress of March 3, 1897. 

 See also pp. 1300, 1301. 



