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 Trru: xLvm.——COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.——Ch. 1. 805 dence, or otherwise, to a subject or citizen of any foreign prince or state, Ibid-. B- 16· and such sale or transfer shall not be made known, as hereinbefore The M,,gmt, 9 directed, such vessel, together with her tackle, apparel, and furniture, Wh., 421; T h e shall be forfeited. lf such vessel, however, be so owned in part only, Fl°’°¤Z°·1Bl¤*°h· and it is made to appear to the ury before whom the trial for such for- & H" 52' feiture is had, that any other owner of such vessel, being a citizen of the United States, was wholly ignorant of the sale or transfer to or ownership of such foreign subject or citizen, the share or interest of such citizen of the United States shall not be subject to such forfeiture. and the residue only shall be so forfeited. SBC. -1173. Upon the entry of every vessel of the United States from Oath upon entry. any foreign port, if the same shall be at the port at which the owner or  `i any of the part owners reside, such owner or part owner shall make oath _ Y __ `_ that_ the register of such vessel contains the name or names of all the 4 g,’·S;,g·w‘“‘“*”· persons who are then owners of the vessel; or if any part of such vessel lr" ' as been sold or transferred since the granting of such register, that such is the case, and that no foreign subject or citizen has. to the best of his knowledge and belief, any share, by way of trust, confidence, or otherwise, in such vessel. If the owner or any part owner does not reside at the port at which such vessel enters, the master shall make oath to the like effect. lf the owner, or part owner, where there is one, or the master. where there is no owner, refuses so to swear, such vessel shall not be entitled to the vrivileges of a vessel of the United States. _ _ Sec. -1171. Elvcry certificate of registry which is delivered up to a col- 'l`¤"*¤m*¤S¤°¤ Pi lector on the loss, destruction, or capture of a vessel, or the transfer ?(`;{§':g¥:ga:$;lff' thereof to a foreigner, shall be forthwith transmitted to the Register of —..-T—.w..-.ZJ the Treasury. to be canceled: who. if the same shall have been deliv— _}P§;Q·§]}·W ered up to a collector other than of the district in which it was granted, Catlett e-. Insurshall cause notice of such delivery to be given to the collector of such ¤¤9¤ €`9m1>¤¤Y. T district. Pam°’ °94' Sec. 117 5. Whencx*er the master or owner of a vessel shall deliver up U¤¤¢¤ll¤¥i0¤ ef the register of such vessel, agreeably to the provisions of this Title, 1f  . to the collector of the district where the same was granted, the collector Il°1d·»**·18»P-Y-’0**· shall thereupon cancel the bond which shall have been 'ven at the time of rantin such register; or if to the collector of any other district, such collector 518ll grant to the master, commander, or owner, a receipt or acknowledgment that such register has been delivered to him, an the time when; and upon such receipt being produced to the collector by whom the register was granted. he shall cancel the bond of the party, as if the register had been returned to him. Sec. -1176. The collector of each district shall progressively number _ Numbering reethe certificates of the registry by him granted, beginning anew at the MFG- _____ commencement of each year, and shall enter  exact copy of each cer- Ibid., s, 19, titicate in a book to be kept for that puppose; and shal, once in three months, transmit to the Register of the ’ reasury copies of all the certificates which shall have been granted by him, inclu ing the number of each. Sec. -1177. The Secretary of the Treasury shall have power, under such N umbersfcrvesregulations as he shall prescribe, to establish and provide a system of *1*- numbering vessels so rc istered. enrolled, and licensed; and each vessel 28 July, 1866, c_ so numbered shall haveicr number deeply carved or otherwise perma- 298, S. 13,v. 14, p. nently marked on her main beam; and 1f at any time she shall cease to 331- be so marked, such vessel shall he no longer recognized as a vessel of the United States. Sec. -1178. The name of every registered vessel, and of the port to Names of vestels which she shall belong, shall be painted on her stern on a black ground, *¤ be P¤i¤Wd ¤¤ in white letters, of not less than three inches in length. If an vessel of """" the United Saates shall be found without having her name and, the name 31 Dec., 1792, c. of the ort to which she belongs so painted, the owner or owners shall L B- div- r P- 288- be liablg to a penalty of fifty dollars; recoverable one—half to the rson 4633,, "§’Ij8gh°‘ gjvizg the information thereof; the other half to the use of the {limited ’’` a. s.