PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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Pilots, not hindered by sickness, &c. refusing to go on board any vessel

when required shall forfeit $100—1803, ch. 63, sec. 11,

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In either case they may be suspended by the board — 1803, ch. 63,

sec. 11, ...........

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Pilots, on offering their services, shall produce and show to masters of

vessels their warrant and license under the penalty of $10 — 1803,

ch. 63, sec. 11, ..........

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Pilots convicted of losing negligently or carelessly any vessel under

their care, shall be incapable of acting as pilots, and be liable to an

action for damages — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 12, .

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Where they run a vessel on shore entitled to no pilotage — 1803, ch.

63, sec. 12, ..........

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If by negligence, they shall be liable to an action for damages — 1803,

ch. 63, sec. 12, ..........

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Additional allowance to pilots for touching at Hampton Roads, or at

Annapolis, for any other cause than distress of weather — 1803, ch.

63, sec. 14, ..........

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Pilots obliged when they receive their pilotage to produce a copy of

this act to the master — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 15,

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Penalty on refusal or neglect — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 15, .

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Wages, &c. to pilots, who may be carried to sea against their inclina-

tino— 1803, ch. 63, sec. 16, .......

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Pilots refusing on notice to aid any vessel in distress, within six

leagues to the southward of Cape Henry, or to the eastward of

Cape Charles, or in Chespeake bay, on proof thereof before the

board, shall be rendered incapable of serving — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 17,

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Further allowance to pilots detained on board of vessels subjected to

quarantine — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 18, ......

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For detention by masters, not being ready to proceed according to their

notice— 1803, ch. 63, sec. 19, ......

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Every pilot shall, within three months after obtaining his warrant, take

at least one white apprentice, and instruct him in the art of pilot-

ing— 1803, ch. 63, sec. 20, .......

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Such apprentice to have freedom dues, and the usual allowance at the

expiration of his time, and to be exempt from militia duty — 1803

ch. 63, sec. 20, .........

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Provisional regulations concerning the piloting of vessels bound to Vir-

ginia— 1803, ch. 63, sec. 21, ......

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All contracts made between the master of any vessel in distress, and

any pilot, shall be void ; but the pilot shall be entitled to a reason

able reward for his aid, &c. — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 22,

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Directions for filling vacancies in the board of examiners — 1803, ch

63, sec. 23, .........

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Provision that the act should commence on the 1st of February, 1804

and continue in force until congress should take cognizance of the

subject — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 24, ......

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Vessels belonging to persons not citizens of the United Slates, arriving

from sea, obliged to take a pilot if offered— 1803, ch. 63, sec. 25,

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