4Registry of name, number and burthen

¹*** The name and number of every such vessels employed as aforesaid, fishing-vessel and harbour-craft, and her burthen, and also the name or names of the owner or owners thereof, shall be registered in a took to be kept for that purpose by the person hereinafter directed to make such registry.

Registry by whom to be made, Fresh registration.--At Bombay such registry shall be made by the ²[Principal Officer, Mercantile Marine Department], and at other places ³*** by the Collector of Seacustoms at such places respectively, or by such other person as shall be appointed by the ⁴[Central Government] to act at such places respectively, in the execution of this Act; and whenever any change shall take place in the burthen of such vessel employed as aforesaid, fishing-vessel or harbour-craft, or in the name or names of the owner or owners thereof, such registry shall be made again:

Provided, however, that it shall not be lawful to give any name to such vessel employed as aforesaid, fishing-vessel or harbour-craft, other than that by which she was first registered.