Title 48. section 4131. Section 4133 provides thatifany naturalized citizen owns any part of a registered vessel and resides two years in the country from whence he came his right to any part of that ship shall be tbrfeited. and that no man who is not a citizen shall under any circumstances have any right or interest in her. Section 4143 provides that the man who seeks for the registration shall make oath to all these facts. namely: that the vessel is wholly owned in the UVliited States. wholly officered by citizens of the United States. And if in any regard that oath is false. the vessel. her tackle. apparel. and furniture shall be forfeited to the United States. Section 4191 provides that "every person who knowingly makes. utters. or publishes ny f lse sea letter. Mediterranean passport "--tbr we keep that up. to take passports against the pirates in Algiers. in the Revised Statutes todayor certificate of registry. he shall be liable to a penalty of not wore than $5.000. and. if an officer of the United States. shall thenceibrth be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under the anthority of the United States. In the faice of those provisions. that no ship that is admitted to an American registry shall be owned even in part by a fbreign citizen. that it shall not be owned even by a naturalized citizen unlesshe remains all the time in the United States. that he shall swear that these facts are true. and if they are not true the vessel shall be forfeited. and the man shall be fined $5.000 and be forever incapable of holding any office of honor. profit. and trust in the United States (which I suppose to any Republican gentleman would be the severest penalty that could be inflicted). how is it possible that the Senator from Mainecould assert that all the English ships would at once. in case of war between herself and a foreign nation. be transfered to the American flag ? Have we enough American officers. have we enough American captains. now to take possession of and command the whole British commercial marine? Can we run them all as our own under false pretenses?
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