MOORE, Notary Public to Witnesses: A. T. Bridge, Clerk, August 1, 1856
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Be it hereby made known that I, William Edward Moore, of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, notary public, by the authority of government, duly sworn and admitted, have this day collated and compared with the originals the copies hereto annexed, numbered 1 and 2:
No. 1. Copy of certificate of competency of James Gray as master.
No. 2. Copy of certificate of service of said James Gray as master.
And I, the said notary, do certify and attest that the same are true and faithful copies of the said originals, and agree therewith in every respect. An act whereof being required, I have granted these presents under my notarial form, to serve and avail as occasion shall or may require.
Thus done and passed, at Cape Town aforesaid, this sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
(Quod Attestor.)
Witnesses: A. T. Bridge, Clerk.
S. P. Ford, Clerk.
No. 1.
[l. s.] By the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade.
Certificate of competency as master.
To James Gray:
Whereas it has been reported to us that you have been found duly qualified to fulfil the duties of master in the merchant service, we do hereby, in pursuance of the mercantile marine act, 1850, grant you this certificate of competency.
Given under the seal of the Board of Trade, this twenty-second day of February, 1853.
By order of the board.
J. W. BUSHEY,
J. G. FANSHAWE, Officers of the Naval Department. Pro Secretary to the Naval Department.
Entered at the general register and record office of seamen on the twenty-third day of February, 1853.
EVERARD HORNE COLEMAN.
Endorsed: No. of certificate, 4702. Address of bearer, 77 West North street, Aberdeen. Date and place of birth, 1827, Aberdeen, Aberdeen. No. of register ticket, 198,777.
JAMES GRAY.
This certificate is given upon an ordinary examination passed at Aberdeen on the nineteenth day of February, 1853.
Any person who fraudulently forges or alters a certificate, or fraudulently makes use of any certificate to which he is not justly entitled, is liable either to be prosecuted for a misdemeanor, or to be summarily punished before a magistrate by a penalty of £10, or by imprisonment with hard labor for three months; and any person who refuses to deliver up a certificate which has been cancelled or suspended is liable to the same summary punishment.
Issued at the port of Aberdeen on the 25th day of February, 1853.
No. 2.
This is to certify that James Gray has been in command of my schooner Wanderer for eighteen months past, and has shown himself to be a fit and proper person to take charge of a vessel.