Registry of Ships Act 1787

REGISTRY OF SHIPS ACT 1787

CHAP. XXIII.

An Act for the further Increase and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation.

Preamble,

Recital of 14th & 15th Charles 2d.

British act 12th Charles 2d, in force in Ireland except as herein.

WHEREAS the wealth and strength of this kingdom, and the prosperity and safety of every part of the British empire, greatly depend on the encouragement given to shipping and navigation: and whereas by the forty-ninth rule annexed to, and part of an act passed in Ireland, in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of his late Majesty, Charles the second, entitled, An act for settling the subsidy of poundage, and granting a subsidy of tonnage, and other sums of money into his royal Majesty, his heirs and successors, the same to be paid upon merchandises imported, and exported into, or cut of the kingdom of Ireland, according to a book of rates hereunto annexed: it is directed that an act palled in England, in the twelfth year of the reign of his said. Majesty Charles, the second, entitled, An act for encouraging of shipping and navigation; shall be from time to time duly observed and executed in this kingdom; be it therefore declared and enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this, present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the said recited act passed in England, in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the second, and every provision therein contained, so far as the same are not altered or repeated by this act, is and shall be of full force and effect within this kingdom.