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Vessels which need not be registered,
proviso as to vessels built in the united states of America, or owned by subjects thereof.
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IX. Provided always, That nothing in this act contained, shall extend or be construed to extend, to require to be registered according to the directions of this act, any ship or vessel of war, or any other vessel of whatever built the same may be, or under whatever description the same may fall, being the property of his Majesty or of the royal family, or any of them, or any lighters, barges, boats or vessels, of any built or description whatever, used solely in rivers, or inland navigation: and it is hereby declared, that no ship or vessel built in any of the colonies of North America, now called the United States of America, during the time that any act or acts of Parliament made in Great Britain, prohibiting trade and intercourse with those colonies, was or were in force, nor any ship or vessel which was owned by, or belonged to the subjects of the said United States, or any of the said states respectively, during the existence of such acts, and not registered before the commencement of the same, is or shall be intitled to be registered under this present act, or is or shall be intitled to any of the privileges or advantages of a British ship or vessel, unless such ship or vessel shall have been taken and condemned as lawful prize, or having been stranded shall have been built or rebuilt and registered in the manner heretofore practised and allowed.
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