impowered and obliged to tender to, and such Owner or Owners are hereby
obliged to take, the following Oath, viz.
" You A. B. C. do swear that you are the
true and only Owners of the Ship
" E. and have continued so, ever since the Time of the purchasing
the Register by
" you now produced; and that you have not purchased the said Vessel,
nor obtained
" the Register aforesaid, to the use of, or in the Trust for, any
other Person or Persons
" whatsoever, nor for the Sake of evading the payment of any Duties,
in Favour
" of any Person or Persons whatsoever, that are not actually Residents
within this
" Province."
By 1731, ch. 18, §. 2,
the above Oath may be taken by the Owners of any Vessel who live
remote from a Naval Officer, before a Magistrate in any
COunty where such Owners reside; and
a Certificate thereof under the Hand and Seal of such
magistrate, shall be as effectual, &c. as
if taken before the Naval Officer, if delivered to the
Naval Officer before Clearing the Vessel.
And by §. 4, of the same Act, Owners residing in
different COunties may make separate Oath
in the Manner therein prescribed, a Certificate whereof
as before, shall be effectual, &c.
III. Provided,
That
in case any Inhabitant of this Province, Owner as
aforesaid, shall depart this Province, and go beyond the Seas about
his reasonable
Affairs, and shall not be absent therefrom for above the Space of
Twelve Months, in case any Vessel should happen in his Absence to require
his Oath as aforesaid, such absent Person's Oath in such case may be
dispensed
withal, the other Owners Residents (if any there be) taking the same
Oath,
and the Benefit intended by the said beforementioned Act shall be allowed
to
the Owners of such Vessels.
IV. Provided
nevertheless, That in case any Owner or Owners, Residents
of this Province, shall refuse to comply with the Directions laid down
hereby,
it shall in no wise be lawful for the Naval Officer aforesaid, to give
any
Benefit or Benefits tot he said Owner or Owners, but they are hereby declared
to stand on the same Foot with Persons Non-residents, trading into this
Province; any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XXVI.
Form of the
Oath.
Proviso in
Favour of
Resident Owners,
when
beyond Seas.
Resident Owners,
nor
complying,
shall stand on
the same Foot
as Non-Residents. |
An Act impowering Messieurs William Clayton, of Talbot
County, and James
Earle and William Turbutt, of Queen-Anne's
County, to sell off the Lands
of Robert Smith, Esq; late of Talbot County
aforesaid, deceased, to pay to
Richard Cole, of Queen-Anne's County,
and Mary his Wife, the Daughter
and Heir of Renatus Smith, deceased, the
surviving Executor of the said Robert
Smith, deceased, what the said Renatus Smith
paid on Account of the said
Robert Smith, more than Effects came to
his Hands; and for the Payment of
his other Debts. Lib. LL. Nº 4. fol.
511. PR.
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Ditto. |
