| ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
board of examiners, such pilot shall be liable to be suspended by
them for such time as they shall think fit; and every pilot, on offering
his services to the master of any vessel, shall produce and shew
to such master his warrant of appointment and licence, granted him
in virtue of this act, under the penalty of ten dollars for every neglect. |
1803.
CHAP. 63. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any pilot shall
negligently or
carelessly lose any vessel under his care, and be thereof convicted
by due course of law, he shall for ever after such conviction be incapable
of acting as a pilot in this state, and shall be also liable by
action at common law to pay all such damages as any person shall
sustain by such negligence or carelessness; and if any pilot shall
run any vessel on shore, he shall not be entitled to any pilotage, and
if by negligence, he shall also be liable by action at common law
to pay all damages occasioned thereby. |
Penalty for negligently
or carelessly
losing any
vessel under his
care. |
13. AND, for preventing exorbitant demands
for pilotage, BE IT
ENACTED, That no greater reward for pilotage shall be taken than
is allowed by this act, to wit: For every vessel from sea to Baltimore
city, three dollars and fifty cents, and from said city of Baltimore
to sea, three dollars for each and every foot of water she shall
draw, and from the mouth of Potomac to George town, and
vice versa, there shall be an addition of one fifth to the above
rates,
and so in proportion for any less distance from any other port of
this state to sea, or from sea to any other port of this state, such
distance to be fixed by the said board of examiners; but no pilot
shall receive any reward or pay for any supernumerary inches under
six.
By 1815, ch. 177, and 1817, ch. 89,
further regulations are made respecting the
fees allowed to pilots. |
Rates of pilotage. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any vessel bound
to sea, or to
any of the ports within this state, and under the direction of a pilot
appointed under this act, shall touch at Hampton Road, and
from any other cause than distress of weather, the said pilot may
demand and receive from the master of such vessel the sum of
twelve dollars for conducting in any such vessel, and the sum of
ten dollars for bringing her out again, and if any vessel bound to
sea, or any of the ports above or below the mouth of Severn, shall
touch at the port of Annapolis for any other cause than distress of
weather, the pilot may demand and receive from the master thereof
the sum of three dollars for every day he is detained with such
vessel. |
Allowance for vessels
touching at
Hampton Road. |
15. AND, to the end that strangers may not
be imposed on in the
rates of pilotage, as settled by this act, BE IT ENACTED, That
every pilot appointed in pursuance of this act, shall be obliged,
when he receives his pilotage, to produce a copy of this act to the
master of the vessel or owner, to shew that he demands no greater
reward than is allowed by this act, and if any pilot shall neglect to
shew such copy at the time of receiving his pilotage, he shall forfeit
and pay twenty dollars, and if he shall refuse on request to produce
such copy, he shall forfeit and pay sixty dollars. |
Pilot, when he receives
pilotage, to
produce a copy of
this act to the master
of the vessel. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any master
of any vessel
shall carry any licensed pilot to sea against his inclination, such
master shall pay to a first rate pilot thirty dollars per month, if
his boat be with him, if not, twenty dollars per month, until his |
Wages to pilots
carried to sea
against their inclinations. |
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