506 PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS. [ART. 75.

28. Whenever a pilot is engaged to pilot a vessel, the master
shall continue him (if inward bound) to her first port of dis-
charge or to sea, (if outward bound,) or pay him full pilotage.

29. The pilots shall be required, under the direction of the
board, to keep as many pilot boats on active duty as the Board
of Examiners may deem necessary, to cruise outside Cape Henry
for the protection of commerce; one or more to be kept on the
station as a look-out boat in or near Cape Henry; and the board
shall have full power to designate the stations, and make rules
and regulations for their cruising; and may designate and appoint
five pilots, and grant them authority to enforce such rules and
regulations as they may adopt; and to inspect the boats in the
service from time to time, and generally to do all things which
may be necessary for the efficiency of the pilots, and the boats
used in the service.

30. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to pre-
vent the employment of any person to pilot a vessel in any of
the rivers of this State, except the Patapsco and Potomac Eivers,
or from any part of the Chesapeake Bay north of the Patapsco
River, to any other part of said bay north of said river.

ARTICLE LXXV.
Pleadings, Practice and Process.

SEC. 1. The practice, proceedings and pleadings in the several
courts of law, shall be the same that were used and practised in
the courts of law of this State at the time of the adoption of
the present Constitution, except so far as the same may be altered
and changed by this code.

PLEADING.

2. Whatever facts are necessary to constitute the ground of
action, defence, or reply, as the case may be, shall be stated in
the pleading and nothing more; and facts only shall be stated,
and not arguments, or inferences, or matter of law or of evi-
dence, or of which the court takes notice ex officio.