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No registry shall be made nor certificate granted untill the oath herein be taken.
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XI. And be it further enacted, That no registry, shall from henceforth be made or certificate granted until the following oath be taken and subscribed before the person or persons herein authorized to make such registry, and grant such certificate respectively (which they are hereby respectively impowered to administer) by the owner of such ship or vessel, if such ship or vessel is owned by or belongs to one person only, or in case there shall be two joint owners then by both of such joint owners, if both shall be resident within twenty miles of the port or place where such registry is required, or by one of such owners if one or both of them shall be resident at a greater distance from such port or place, or if the number of such owners, or proprietors shall exceed two, then by the greater part of the number of such owners or proprietors, if the greater number of them shall be resident within twenty miles of such port or place aforesaid, not in any case exceeding three of such owners or proprietors, or by one of such owners or proprietors, if all shall be resident at a greater distance.
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I A. B. of (place of residence and occupation) do make oath, that the ship, or vessel (name of port or place) whereof (masters name) is at present master, being (kind of built, burthen, et cetera, described in the certificate of the surveying officer) was (when and where built, or if prize, capture, and condemnation) and that I the said A. B. (and the other owners names and occupations, if any, and where they respectively reside, viz. town, place, or parish, and county, or if member of, and resident in any factory, in foreign parts, or in any foreign town or city, being an agent for, or partner in any house or copartnership, actually carrying on trade in Great Britain or Ireland, the name of such factory, foreign town, or city, and the names of such house or copartnership) am (or are) sole owner (or owners) of the said vessel, and that no other person or persons whatever 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 and bona side, a subject (or subjects) of his Majesty, and that I the said A. B. have not, nor have any of the other owners, to the best of my knowledge and belief, taken the oath of allegiance to any foreign state whatever (except under the terms of some capitulation, describing the particulars thereof) or that since my taking (or his 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-seventh year of the reign of King George the third, entitled, “An act for the further increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation,” I have (or he or they hath, or have) become a subject (or subjects) of his Majesty, (either by his Majesty’s letters patent as a denizen, or denizens, or naturalized by act of Parliament, as the case may be, naming the dates of the letters of denization, or the act or acts of Parliament for naturalization respectively) or (as the case may be) I have (or he or they hath or have) become a denizen, (or denizens, or naturalized subject or subjects, as the case may be) of his Majesty, by his Majesty’s letters patent, or by any act of Parliament passed since the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, (naming the time when such letters of denization have been granted respectively, or the year or years in which such act or acts for naturalization have passed respectively,) and that no foreigner directly or indirectly, both any share or part, or interest in the said ship or vessel.
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