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SEC. 4134. No vessel shall be entitled to be registered as a vessel of 

 the United States, or, if registered, to the benefits of registry, if owned 

 in whole or in part by any person naturalized in the United States, 

 and residing for more than one year in the country from which he 

 originated, or for more than two years in any foreign country, unless 

 such person be a consul or other public agent of the United States. 

 Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent the 

 registering anew of any vessel before registered, in case of a sale 

 thereof in good faith to any citizen resident in the United States; 

 but satisfactory proof of the citizenship of the person on whose ac- 

 count a vessel may be purchased shall be exhibited to the collector, 

 before a new register shall be granted for such vessel. 



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SEC. 4142. In order to the registry of any vessel, an oath shall be 

 taken and subscribed by the owner, or by one of the owners thereof, 

 before the officer authorized to make such registry, declaring, accord- 

 ing to the best of the knowledge and belief of the person so swearing, 

 the name of such vessel, her burden, the place where she was built, 

 if built within the United States, and the year in which she was built ; 

 or that she has been captured in war, specifying the time, by a citizen 

 of the United States, and lawfully condemned as prize, producing a 

 copy of the sentence of condemnation, authenticated in the usual 

 forms; or that she has been adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of 

 the laws of the United States, producing a like copy of the adjudica- 

 tion of forfeiture; and declaring his name and place of abode, and if 

 he be the sole owner of the vessel, that such is the case ; or if there be 

 another owner, that there is such other owner, specifying his name 

 and place of abode, and that he is a citizen of the United States, and 

 specifying the proportion belonging to each owner; and where an 

 owner resides in a foreign country, in the capacity of a consul of the 

 United States, or as an agent for and a partner in a house or copart- 

 nership consisting of citizens of the United States, actually carrying 

 on trade within the United States, that such is the case, that the per- 

 son so swearing is a citizen of the United States, and that there is no 

 subject or citizen of any foreign prince or state, directly or indirectly, 

 by way of trust, confidence, or otherwise, interested in such vessel, or 

 in the profits or issues thereof ; and that the master thereof is a citizen, 

 naming the master, and stating the means whereby or manner in 

 which he is a citizen. 



SEC. 4143. If any of the matters of fact alleged in the oath taken 

 by an owner to obtain the registry of any vessel, which within the 

 knowledge of the party so swearing are not true, there shall be a 

 forfeiture of the vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, and fur- 

 niture, in respect to which the oath shall have been made, or of the 

 value thereof, to be recovered, with the costs of suit, of the person by 

 whom the oath was made. 



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SEC. 4165. A vessel registered pursuant to law, which by sale 

 has become the property of a foreigner, shall be entitled to a new 

 register upon afterwards becoming American property, unless it has 

 been enlarged or undergone change in build outside of the United 



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



