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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 727

person shall appear to the Board [of] TO POSSESS sufficient
ability, skill, and experience [they] THE BOARD shall grant him
[one] 1 of [three] 3 kinds of warrants of appointment and
license, under seal, according to the qualification of [such] THE
person, thereby authorizing him [for one year from the date of
such warrant] either to pilot [such] THE vessels of any draught
of water, or vessels not exceeding [twenty-four] 34 feet draught,
or vessels not exceeding [seventeen] 28 feet draught; and every
person receiving [such] THE warrant and appointment shall
thereafter be reported a lawful pilot[; provided, however, that
no]. A person [shall] MAY NOT be entitled to receive a warrant as
a [first rate] pilot OF VESSELS OF ANY DRAUGHT OF WATER unless he
shall have served at least [five] 3 years [in the business of
piloting] AS A LAWFUL PILOT and shall be [eighteen] 18 years of
age[; each apprentice pilot presenting himself for the above
examination shall pay to the Board of Examiners the sum of five
dollars ($5.00), and to the register of said Board the sum of
seventy-five cents].

[5.] 4.

(A)  [No] A person [shall] MAY NOT be authorized or
permitted to be a pilot unless he shall have first received a
license from the Board of Pilot Examiners.

(B)  Every new license shall be applied for in the months of
April or May in every year and every pilot shall renew his
warrant or license biennially in the months of April or May in
each even-numbered year and [no] renewals [shall] MAY NOT be
granted at any other time or new licenses applied for, except in
the discretion of the Board of Examiners; and the Board of
Examiners may renew any license or not, as they may think proper.
A certificate of authorization shall expire on May 30 of each
even-numbered year.

(C)  Any pilot absenting himself from the business of
piloting (unless occasioned by sickness), for a term of [one] 1
year, [shall] MAY not be entitled to any warrant or license to
act as pilot thereafter, but his license shall be revoked by the
Board of Pilot Examiners. [Every first rate pilot shall pay $4,
and every second rate pilot shall pay $3, and every third rate
pilot shall pay $2 to the register of the Board of Examiners for
such renewal.]

(D)  FOR A LICENSE OR LICENSE RENEWAL, EVERY PILOT LICENSED
SHALL PAY TO THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FEES:

(1)  FOR VESSELS OF ANY DRAUGHT OF WATER - $400; OR

(2)  FOR VESSELS NOT EXCEEDING 34 FEET DRAUGHT $300;
AND OR

(3)  FOR VESSELS NOT EXCEEDING 28 FEET DRAUGHT $200.

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