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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1829.

CHAPTER 58.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to regulate the
quality of Silver Plate manufactured and sold, or offered for sale in the
City of Baltimore, and for other purposes.
Transferred to 'Public Local Law,' title, 'Baltimore City.'

* 1803, ch.
63.

CHAPTER 74.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to establish
Pilots, and regulate their Fees.
Bee the original act, ante page 483.

Regulations
prescribed;
compen-
sation.

SEC. 1 Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland
That hereafter every master of a merchant vessel, either draw-
ing nine feet water or upwards, or measuring one hundred tons,
(custom-house tonnage) coming from sea, shall be obliged to
receive the first pilot who offers below the Horseshoe, to con-
duct or pilot his vessel, and shall continue the same pilot to his
first port of discharge, or shall pay him half pilotage to the first
port; and every master of a merchant vessel of the aforesaid
draught of water or tonnage, going to sea, shall be obliged to
receive a pilot to conduct or pilot his vessel, and shall continue
the same pilot to the capes, or pay half pilotage to the capes to
the same pilot who first offered below the Horseshoe, to con-
duct or pilot his vessel on her passage upward, or to some other
pilot belonging to the same company with the said pilot ; and
every pilot who shall be entitled to receive half pilotage, shall,
on receiving the same, be bound to pay the amount over to the
company of the pilot boat to which he belongs, to be equally

Proviso.

divided among the said company, share and share alike : Pro-
vided, that if the said pilot or some pilot of the company to
which he belongs, shall not apply to conduct or pilot the said
vessel to sea, then the said half pilotage shall be paid to the
first other applicant

Apprentice-
ship re-
quired.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That hereafter no person shall be
entitled to receive a warrant as a first rate pilot, unless he hath
employed himself at least three years in the business of piloting
vessels of any draught, or unless he hath served at least five

Proviso.

years as an apprentice to the business of piloting : Provided,
that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to prevent the
renewal of any warrant heretofore granted.

Penalty for
overcharge.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the penalty of fifty dollars
shall be imposed on any pilot who shall wilfully charge or re-
ceive, either directly or indirectly, any greater or lesser fees for
pilotage than may be allowed by law ; one-half of the said pe-
nalty to go the informer, and the other half to the Marine
Society of Baltimore; the whole to be recovered in the name
of the society, before the board of examiners : and all and
every matter relative to this act, or those to which it is a sup-