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PILOTS.

[ART. 14-

ARTICLE LXXIV.

PILOTS.

1. Board of examiners a body politic. 2. The board of examiners of Mary- land pilots, of whom composed. Pilots to pay said board $1,000 to defray expenses. 3. Applicant to be a pilot; must pro- duce a certificate of honesty and good behavior. 4. Board to examine each applicant; appointment and license. 5. Fees. 6. Warrant as first rate pilot. 7. Annual renewal of license. 8. Fees for renewal. 9. First rate license not to be granted to minor. 10. Board may increase or decrease number of pilots. 11. Oath of board before examining any applicant. 12. Pilot not to act unless his company keeps a sufficient pilot boat. 13. Pilot to have license to destined port of any vessel he demands to pilot; name of boat to be put on stem, mainsail and foresail. 14. No person not licensed shall under- take to pilot any vessel; penalty.

15. Board may make rules; may sus- pend or withdraw license. 16. What vessels required to pay pilot- age. 17. What vessels exempt. 18. Masters shall take licensed pilot or pay full pilotage. 19. Money collected under sections 16 and 17, how distributable. 20. Special provisions as to masters and" owners of vessels on the Poco- moke river and Eastern shore. 21. Rates of pilotage. 22. Deduction from pilot rates, when- allowed. 23. Pilot absent three years. 24. Pilot refusing to aid vessel in dis- tress. 25. Carrying licensed pilot to sea against his inclination; penalty. 26. Penalty for employing vessels as pilot boat without license. 27. Detention of pilots; penalty. 28. Master to continue pilot to port or to sea. 29. Pilots to keep three boats at sea. 30. In what cases this article inappli- cable.

1904. art. 74 sec. 1 1888, art. 74, sec. 1. 1860, art. 74, sec. 1.
1853, ch. 214, sec. 3.

1. The board of examiners of pilots is a body politic and corporate,
and may appoint a register who shall enter in a book to be provided
for that purpose all applications to and all other proceedings of the
said board and shall countersign all warrants for pilots granted by the
board.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1892, ch. 532.

2. The board of examiners of Maryland pilots shall consist of three-
members composed of the following persons: The president of the

As to the scope and force of state pilot laws, see Revised Statutes United
States, sections 4235-6 and 4400-1; also, Hobart v. Dugan, 10 Peters, 121; The
License Cases, 5 Howard, 580; Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 12 Howard, 299; ex
parte, McNiel, 13 Wallace, 236.