Clarke, Richard [Editor]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (3): Acts from 1834 to 1853 (London, 1854)

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ACT X.

[A.D. 1841.

Change of master.

any account have lost and forfeited the privileges of a British ship, or shaii
have been seized and legally condemned for illicit trading, or shall have
been taken in execution for debt and sold by due process of law, or shall
have been sold to the Crown or the East-India Company, or shall under
any circumstances have been registered de novo, the certificate, if pre-
served, shall be delivered up, within one month after the arrival of the
master in any port or place in the territories of the East-India Company,
to the registering officer at such port; in default whereof, the master or any
of the owners shall be liable, on conviction by information as aforesaid, to
a penalty not exceeding five thousand rupees. And if any person not
being such subject as aforesaid shall purchase or otherwise become entitled
to the whole or to any part or share of or any interest in such ship or
vessel, and the same shall be within the limits of any port of the territo-
ries of the East-India Company, then and in such case the certificate of
registry shall, within seven days after such purchase or transfer of property
in such ship or vessel, be delivered up to the registering officer at such
port; and if such ship or vessel shall be in any place not within the terri-
tories of the East-India Company, when such purchase or transfer of
property shall take place, then the certificate shall be delivered up within
fourteen days after the arrival of such ship or vessel, or of the master
thereof, in any port of the territories of the East-India Company, to the
registering officer at such port; in default whereof, the master or any of the
owners shall be liable, on conviction before any justice of the peace, in a
penalty not exceeding five thousand rupees, recoverable in manner pro-
vided by Act No. II. of 1839.
XVI. And it is hereby enacted, that when and so often as the master
of any ship or vessel registered in manner hereinbefore directed shall be
changed, the master or owner of such ship or vessel shall deliver to the
person Or persons hereinbefore authorized to make such registry and grant
such certificates of registry at the port where such change shall take place,
if it be a port within the territories of the East-India Company, the cer-
tificate of registry belonging to such ship or vessel, who shall thereupon
indorse and subscribe a memorandum of such change, and shall forthwith
give notice of the same to the proper officer of the port or place where,
such ship or vessel was last registered pursuant to this Act, who shall like-
wise make a memorandum of the same in the book of registers which is
hereby directed and required to be kept, and shall forthwith give notice
thereof in like manner as of the original entry. But if the change do not
take place in any port within the territories of the East-India Company,
then such delivery, memorandum and indorsement shall be made and
notice given at the first port within the territories of the East-India Com-
pany at which the new master shall arrive after such change. In default
of which delivery of the certificate, such new master, or any of the owners,
shall be liable, on conviction before a justice of the peace, to a penalty not
exceeding five thousand rupees, recoverable as aforesaid.
XVII. And it is hereby enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any
owner or owners of any ship or vessel to give any name to such ship or
vessel other than that by which she was first registered in pursuance of
this Act, and that the owner or owners of all and every ship or vessel

Name of ship.