EXTRACTS FROM REVISED STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES, 

 TITLES XL VIII AND L, CHAP. I. 



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 trade and fisheries, or one of them, shall be deemed vessels 

 of the United States, and entitled to the benefits and privileges apper- 

 taining to such vessels; but they shall not enjoy the same longer than 

 they shall continue to be wholly owned by citizens and to be com- 

 manded by a citizen of the United States. And officers of vessels of 

 the United States shall in all cases be citizens of the United States. 



(31 Dec., 1792, c. 1, s. 1, v. 1, p. 287. Ibid. 17 April, 1874, c. 107, 

 v. 18, p. 30. 18 April, 1874, c. 110, v. 18, p. 31.} 



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SEC. 4165. No vessel which is registered, pursuant to any law of 

 the United States, and which is seized or captured and condemned 

 under the authority of any foreign power, or which by sale becomes 

 the property of a foreigner, shall be entitled to or capable of receiv- 

 ing a new register, notwithstanding such vessel should afterward 

 become American property; but all such vessels shall be taken and 

 considered, to all intents and purposes, as foreign vessels. Nothing 

 in this section shall extend to or be construed to affect the person 

 owning any vessel at the time of the seizure or capture of the same, 

 or his executor or administrator, or shall prevent such owner or his 

 executor or administrator, in case he regain a property in such vessel, 

 so condemned, by purchase or otherwise, from claiming and receiving 

 a new register for the same, as he otherwise might have done. 6 



(27 June, 1797, c. 5, v. 1, p. 523. 27 Mar., 1804, c. 52, s. 2, v. 2, 

 p. 297.) 



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SEC. 4320. In order to the licensing of any vessel for carrying on 

 the coasting-trade or fisheries, the husband, or managing owner, to- 

 gether with the master thereof, with one or more sureties to the satis- 

 faction of the collector granting the same, shall become bound to pay 

 to the United States, if such vessel be of the burden of five tons and 

 less than twenty tons, the sum of one hundred dollars ; and if twenty 

 tons and not exceeding thirty tons, the sum of two hundred dollars; 

 and if above thirty tons and not exceeding sixty tons, the sum of five 

 hundred dollars; and if above sixty tons, the sum of one thousand 

 dollars, in case it shall appear, within two years from the date of the 

 bond, that such vessel has been employed in any trade whereby the 

 revenue of the United States has been defrauded, during the time the 



For this section as amended by Act of Congress of May 28, 1896, see p. 1126. 

 6 For this section as amended by Act of Congress of March 3, 1897, see p. 1127. 

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