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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the said
board of examiners
shall die, resign, refuse to act or remove from the said city,
or be otherwise rendered incapable to act, the remaining examiners,
or a majority of them, shall fill up such vacancy, provided
that they shall so regulate their appointments as to have at least
one member of the board a person skilled in the business of piloting. |
1803.
CHAP. 63.
How vacancies in
board of examiners
are to be filled. |
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
commence on the
first day of February, eighteen hundred and four, and shall continue
in force until the congress of the United States of America
shall take cognizance of the subject.
By an act of congress of 1789, ch.
9, it was enacted, that all pilots in the Bays,
&c. of the United States, should continue to be regulated by the laws
of the states,
until further provision by congress; which has not been made. |
Commencement of
act. |
25. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all vessels belonging
to persons
not citizens of any of the United States, which shall hereafter arrive
from sea at any port or ports in this state, shall be obliged to
take a pilot, (in case any one offers,) and pay one third additional
pilotage in addition to the fees allowed by this act, and if the captain
of such vessel shall refuse to take such pilot on application, he
shall notwithstanding be answerable for, and liable to pay, such pilotage,
in the same manner as if the service was performed. |
Foreign vessels
obliged to take a
pilot. |
26. AND, for an inducement to pilots to pay
attention to renew
their warrants annually in the months of April and May in every
year, BE IT ENACTED, That such pilot or pilots who shall neglect
to renew as aforesaid, shall, after the first day of June in every
year, pay double fees for a renewal of their warrants, unless prevented
by sickness, or being carried out to sea. |
Penalty for neglecting
to renew
warrants. |
27. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the aforesaid
board of examiners
shall be competent to determine, decide and adjudge, all and
every matter relative to this act, whether penalty or dispute, within
three days after application by the complainants. |
Board competent
to decide all matters
relative to
this act. |
28. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act, entitled,
An act to establish
pilots, and to regulate their fees, passed November session,
seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, (*) and the supplement thereto,
passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety, (†) so
far as the same is provided for by this act, be and the same is
hereby repealed. |
Acts repealed.
* Ch. 26.
† Ch. 27. |
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CHAP. LXIV.
An Act enabling the Inhabitants of Worcester County to stop Sinepuxent
Bay at or between the Haw Hammocks and the Thoroughfare,
and for other purposes. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol.
430. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of a number of subscribers, inhabitants of the upper part of
Worcester county, that the navigation from Saint-Martin's landing
and the Little bay to Sinepuxent inlet is obstructed by shoals, so
that there is great danger in the navigation thereof, and it being
conceived by stopping the bay, called Sinepuxent Bay, at or between
the Haw Hammocks and the Thoroughfare, that an inlet
will open above the place so stopped, in such manner as to afford
an easy and safe navigation to all the upper part of the said county,
and its vicinity; and this general assembly, being strongly impressed
with the general utility of the said undertaking, and the |
Preamble. |
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