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more remarkably than in the article of coffee, which is bur- 

 dened with expense, and injured in quality, by the processes 

 adopted for securing the revenue. 



is required, or by one of such owners, if both be resident at a greater distance, 

 or if the number of such owners should exceed two, then by the greater num- 

 ber of them, if the greater number shall be resident within twenty miles of 

 such port, not exceeding three of such owners, if all shall be resident at a 

 greater distance. 



(The Oath.) 



" I, A. B. of (place of residence and occupation) do make oath, that the 



ship or vessel (name) of (place or port belonging) whereof is at present 



master, being (kind of built, burthen, H,c.) was (when and where built, or, if 

 prize, capture, and condemnation) and that I, the said A. B. ( and the owners 

 names, if any, place of residence, occupation, ik c. or, if member of, and resi- 

 dent in, any factory in foreign parts, or iti any foreign town, or city, being an 

 agent for, or partner in any houose or copartnership, actually carrying on trade 

 in Great Britain or Ireland, the name of such factory in foreign parts, or in 

 any foreign town, or city, and the names of such house and copartnership) am 

 (or are) sole owner (or owners) of the said vessel, and that no other person 

 or persons hath or have any right, title, interest, share, or property, therein 

 or thereto ; and that I, the said A. B. ( and the said other owners, if any ) am 

 (or are) truly bond fide, a subject (or subjects) of Great Britain, and that I, 

 the said A. B. have not ( nor have any of the other owners) taken the oath of al- 

 legiance to any foreign state whatever, or that since my (or their) taking the 

 oath of allegiance to (naming the foreign states respectively to which he or any 

 of the said owners shall have taken the same) and prior to the passing of an act in 

 the twenty-sixth year of the reign of king George the Third, entitled an act for 

 the farther increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation, I have (or 



