Registry of ships. The registry of ships appears to have been introduced into this country by the (English) Navigation Act (12 Car. 2, c. 18, A.D. 1660); several provisions were made with respect to it by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 22, and the whole was reduced into a system by the 27 Geo. 3, c. 19. It is now provided for by Part I. of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), Chit. Stat., tit. 'Shipping,' by which (s. 2) every British ship must be registered under the Act, except (s. 3) 'ships not exceeding fifteen tons burden employed solely in navigation on the rivers or coasts of the United Kingdom, or on the rivers or coasts of some British possession within which the managing owners of the ships are resident,' and 'ships not exceeding thirty tons burden, and not having a whole or fixed deck and employed solely in fishing or trading coastwise on the shores of Newfoundland or parts adjacent thereto, or in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, or on such portions of the coasts of Canada as lie bordering on that gulf.'
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