PILOTS. 2339

vessels employed in and licensed for the coasting trade and American
vessels laden either in whole or in part with coke or coal mined in the
United States shall take a licensed pilot, or in case of refusal to take such
pilot shall themselves, their owners or consignees pay the said pilotage
as if one had been employed, and such pilotage shall be paid to the pilot
first speaking or offering his services as pilot to such vessels before Cape
Henry bears south, if inward bound.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 17. 1896, ch 40.

17. Vessels employed in and licensed for the coasting trade shall be
exempt from the duty of employing a pilot, and the vessels, as well as
their masters, owners, agents or consignees, shall be exempt from the duty
of paying pilotage, half pilotage or any penalty whatsoever in case of
their neglect or refusal to do so; any American vessel laden either in
whole or in part with coke or coal mined in the United States shall be
exempt from the duty of taking a pilot and the vessel, as well as her mas-
ter, owner, agent or consignee, shall be exempt from the duty of paying
pilotage, or half pilotage, or any penalty whatsoever.in case of his neglect
or refusal so to do. But a coastwise vessel or such American vessel laden
either in whole or in part with coke or coal, mined as aforesaid, volun-
tarily taking a pilot shall pay the same fee for pilotage as prescribed in
the case of a vessel bound to or from a foreign port.

Portion of this section exempting from compulsory pilotage laws vessels laden in
whole or in part with coke or coal mined in United States applies only to vessels
which in a commercial sense are coal-laden or carry a reasonable cargo thereof;
it has no application to vessel which carries only small quantity of coal as ballast.
The Edmund Phinney, 80 Fed. 558.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 18. 1888, sec. 18. 1853, ch. 214, sec. 15.

18. The master or owner of every vessel required to take out license
under the two preceding sections, navigating the Chesapeake bay without
such license, shall either take the first licensed pilot who offers to conduct
or pilot his vessel to or from sea or shall pay him full pilotage; but the
payment of full pilotage shall not be exacted from any inward bound
vessel which, on her arrival and before her departure, shall obtain from
the board of pilots a license in pursuance of the provisions of this article.

An. Code, sec. 19. 1904, sec. 19. 1888, sec, 19. 1853, ch. 214, sec. 16.

19. The money collected by the board of pilots under sections 16 and
17 of this article shall be equally distributed quarterly among the regular
working pilots over twenty-one years of age; but the board shall make
suitable provision for any pilot who is sick or disabled, not exceeding the
distributive portion of any pilot engaged in active service.

An. Code, sec. 20. 1904, sec. 20. 1888, sec. 20. 1853, ch. 214, sec. 19.

20. The master or owner of any vessel bound up or down the Poco-
moke river or any river whose mouth is bounded on both sides by the
eastern shore of Maryland shall not be required to take out any license
from the board of pilots or to pay any pilotage to or from any of said rivers