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Licence to be delivered up or accounted for after any licensed Boat is lost, broken up, or otherwise disposed of.
Penalty.
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IV. And whereas it is expedient to make further Provision for compelling the Owners and also the Matters of certain licensed Ships, Vessels, and Boats lost, broken up, captured, burnt, seized, and condemned, sold, or otherwise disposed of, to deliver up the Licences which shall have been granted for the same, within a shorter Time than at present provided; be it therefore enacted, That from and after the Thirty-first Day of August One thousand eight hundred and twelve, whenever any licensed Boat of any Description whatever, (not belonging to any Ship or Vessel, and being under the Burthen of Fifteen Tons), shall be lost, broken up, captured, burnt, seized, and condemned, sold, or otherwise disposed of, the Licence which shall have been granted for the same shall be delivered up to the Collector of the Customs at the Port to which such Boat shall belong, within Six Weeks from the Time such Boat, shall be so loft, broken up, captured, burnt, seized, and condemned, sold, or otherwise disposed of; or in case of the said Licence being lost or taken by the Enemy, satisfactory Proof thereof on Oath shall be within the same Period made before the Collector or Controller of such Port, which Oath they are hereby authorized and required to administer; and in case such Licence shall not be produced and so delivered up, and no such Proof shall be made within such Period as aforesaid, the Owner or Owners of such Boat shall forfeit and lose the Sum of Thirty Pounds.
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