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NAMES OF SHIPS (bouvier) | NAMES OF SHIPS. The act of congress of December 31, 1792, concerning the 
 registering and recording of ships or vessels, provides, 
      Sec. 3. That every ship or vessel, hereafter to be registered, (except 
 as is hereinafter provided,) shall be registered by the collector of the 
 district in which shall be comprehended the port to which such ship or 
 vessel shall belong at the time of her registry, which port shall be deemed 
 to be that at or nearest to which the owner, if there be but one, or, if 
 more than one, the husband, or acting and managing owner of such ship or 
 vessel, usually resides. And the name of the said ship or vessel, and of the 
 port to which she shall so belong, shall be painted on her stern, on a black 
 ground, in white letters, of not less than three inches in length. And if 
 any ship or vessel of the United States shall be found without having her 
 name, and the name of the port to which she belongs, painted in manner 
 aforesaid, the owner or owners shall forfeit fifty dollars; one half to the 
 person, giving the information thereof, the other half to the use of the 
 United States. 1 Story's L. U. S. 269. 
      2. And by the act of February 18, 1793, it is directed, 
      Sec. 11. That every licensed ship or vessel shall have her name, and 
 the port to which she belongs, painted on her stern, in the manner as is 
 provided for registered ships or vessels; and if any licensed ship or vessel 
 be found without such painting, the owner or owners thereof shall pay twenty 
 dollars. 1 Story's L. U. S. 290. 
      3. By a resolution of congress, approved, March. 3, 1819, it is 
 resolved, that all the ships of the navy of the United States, now building, 
 or hereafter to be built, shall be named by the secretary of the navy, under 
 the direction of the president of the United States, according to the 
 following rule, to wit: Those of the first class, shall be called after the 
 states of this Union those of the second class, after the rivers and those 
 of the third class, after the principal cities and towns; taking care that 
 no two vessels in the navy shall bear the same name. 3 Story's L. U. S. 
 1757. 
      4. When a ship is pledged, as in the contract of bottomry, it is 
 indispensable that its name should be properly stated; when it is merely the 
 place in which the pledge is to be found, as in respondentia, it should also 
 be stated, but a mistake in this case would not be fatal. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 
 1255. 
 
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