| 1803.
CHAP. 63. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
return or death; to a second rate pilot twenty-four dollars per
month, if his boat be with him, if not, sixteen dollars per month,
until his return or death; to a third rate pilot twenty dollars per
month, if his boat be with him, if not, twelve dollars per month
until his return or death; and if any master shall carry any
licensed pilot to sea against his inclination, when his boat, or any
other boat, is ready and offers to take him off, and the same may
be done without endangering the vessel, such master shall pay such
pilot three hundred dollars over and above the wages aforesaid. |
Refusing to aid
vessels in distress
to be rendered incapable
of serving. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any licensed pilot
refusing, on
due notice being given him, to aid any vessel in distress, within six
leagues to the southward of Cape Henry, or the same distance to
the eastward of Cape-Charles, or in Chesapeake bay, every
such pilot, so refusing to aid any vessel in distress as above required,
on proof thereof before the said board, shall be rendered
incapable of serving as a pilot. |
Allowance when
subjected to quarantine. |
18. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any pilot
taking charge
as by this act he is obliged, without distinction of vessels, of such
as coming from places exposed to visits of infectious diseases, and
which vessels are by law subjected to quarantine, in such case the
pilot thus detained on board shall be entitled to receive, and shall
be paid, the sum of two dollars per day, in the same manner as for
pilotage, while detained under the regulation of the quarantine laws. |
| And for detention. |
19. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any master
of a vessel
shall give notice to the pilot he shall employ of the time and place
such master shall appoint for his attendance, and such pilot shall
attend accordingly, he may demand and take four dollars for every
day he shall be detained by such master not being ready to proceed
according to his notice, and if any pilot shall attend, on request of
any master, with his boat and hands, he may demand and take
eight dollars for every day his boat and hands shall be detained by
such master's not being ready to proceed according to his notice. |
To take one white
apprentice at least. |
20. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every pilot shall,
within three
months after he obtains his warrant as aforesaid, if possible, take
one white apprentice at the least, and employ him constantly on
board his boat, instructing him in the art of piloting, and such apprentice
shall have freedom dues, and the usual allowance to apprentices
at the expiration of their time, and all such apprentices
shall be exempt from militia duty during the time of their apprenticeship. |
Not to conduct
vessel from sea
bound to Virginia,
unless below the
Horse-shoe. |
21. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no pilot licensed
in virtue of
this act shall undertake to conduct or pilot any vessel from sea,
and bound to any part of Virginia, unless such vessel is below the
Horseshoe, and no pilot appointed by law of that state shall be below
the Horseshoe, and shall offer to pilot such vessel, in such case
the pilot from this state shall deliver sup such vessel to the first authorised
Virginia pilot who shall speak him, and will take charge
of the said vessel, and shall demand no reward, provided the legislature
of Virginia have made a similar regulation as to vessels
from sea, and bound to some port in this state. |
Contracts made
with master of a
vessel in distress
to be void. |
22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all contracts
made between the
master of any vessel in distress and nay pilot shall be void, but the
pilot shall be entitled to a reasonable reward for his aid and services
rendered. |
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