798 Tum: x1.v11r.—(`()MMER(`E AND NAVl(}ATION.——Cr-1. 1. otherwise become entitled to the whole or any part or share of O1 interest in such vessel, the same being within a district of the United States, the certificate shall, in such case, within seven days after such purchase, change, or transfer of property, be delivered up to the collector of the district; and that if any such purchase, change, or- transfer of property shall happen when such vesse shall be at any foreign port or place, or at sea, then the master or person having the charge or command thereof, shall, within eight days after his arrival within any district of the United States, deliver up the certificate to the collector of such €l1Ntl'lCt.. _ Cel‘l>¤‘¤¤“*"F <‘¢‘*· Sec. 4147. ln order to the registry of any vessel built within the United "“?iY"g_ States, it shall be necessary to produce a certificate, under the hand of Ibid., s. 8. the principal or master carpenter, by whom or under whose direction the vessel has been built, tcstifyin that she was built bv him or under his direction, and specifying the pllrace where, the time when, and the person for whom, and describing her build, ll\1l'lll)€‘1' of decks and masts, length, breadth, depth, tonnage, and such other circumstances as are usually descri five of the identity of avcssel; which certificate shall be sufficient to authorize the removal of a new vessel from the district where she may be built to another district in the same or an adjoining State, where the owner actually resides, provided it be with ballast only. Measnrenient of Sec. 4148. Before any vessel shall be registered, she shall be measured
- ‘<‘S~°€l· by a surveyor, if there be one, or by the person he shall appoint, at the
j§{[l_,,_ ai A port or place where the vessel may be, and if there be none, by such per 6 May, 1864, c. son as the collector of the district within which she may be shall appoint.
- 5. >¤-1.v-1¤·¥.p- 6%% But in all cases where a vessel has before been registered as a vessel of
the United States, it shall not be necessary to measure her anew, for the purpose of obtaining another register; unless such vessel has undergone some alteration as to her burden, subsequent to the time of her former registry. C9¥`*ifl¤‘¤@*> of Sec. 4149. The officer or person by whom such measurement is made "‘F`”"°m""*‘ __ _ shall, for the information of and as avoucher to the officer by whom the 31 Dec., 1792, c. registry is to be made, grant a certificate, s ecifying the build of the b S· it "· l· P- 290- vessel, her number of decks and masts, her lbngth, breadth, depth, the number of tons she measures, and such other particulars as are usually descriptive of the identity of a vessel, and that her name, and the place to which she belongs, are painted on her stern in manner required by this Title; which certificate shall be countersigned by an owner, or by the master of such vessel, or by some other person who shall attend her admeasurenient, on behalf of her owner or owners, in testimony of the truth of the particulars therein contained: without which the certificate shall not be valid. [Ser S 4178-] )l.¤lt-nimeasnnie Sec. 4l50. The registry of every vessel shall express her len th and @{2 i 7,*** breadth, together with her depth and the height under the third or 6 MQ, 186.,, u_ spar deck, which shall be ascertained in the following manner: The sa, s. 2, v. 1,p. 69. tonnage-deck, in vessels having three or more decks to the hull, shall be the second deck from below: in all other cases the up r deck of the hull is to be the tonnage-deck. The length from the Edie part of the outer planking on the side of the stem to the after part of the main stern-post of screw-steamers, and to the after part of the rudder- st of all other vessels measured on the top of the tonnage-deck, shaffobe accounted the vessel’s length. The breadth of the broadest part on the outside of the vessel shall be accounted the vesse|’s breadth of beam. A measure from the under side of the tonnage-deck plank, amidships, to the ceiling of the hold, (average thickness,) shall be accounted the depth of hold. lf the vessel has a third deck, then the height from the top of the tonnage-deck plank to the under side of the up er-deck plank shall be accounted as the height under the s ar-deck. AIT measurement to be taken in feet and fractions of feet; andp all fractions of feet shall be _ exgressed in decimals. lfiegctsumgxnt no. 4151. No part of any vessel shall be required by the receding
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- Sl'(;€;nu section to be measured or registered for tonnage that is used for cabins
@$8% (2 or state-rooms, and constructed entirely above the first deck, which is 70, ,,_ 13, },_ 4,,4 not a deck to the hull.
