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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
fifty pounds current money, and such person shall also be liable for
all damages
occasioned by his undertaking to conduct or pilot any such vessel, by action
at
common law. Provided, that this prohibition shall not extend to prevent
any
person from assisting any vessel in distress, if such person shall deliver
up such
vessel to any pilot who shall come on board and offer to conduct or pilot
such vessel;
and he shall pay such person one half of the fees received by him for the
pilotage of such vessel. |
1787.
CHAP.
XXVI. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That not more than three pilots shall be in partnership,
under the penalty of one hundred pounds current money. |
Three may be
in partnership,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That every pilot, on receiving a warrant as aforesaid,
shall give bond, with good security, (such as the said board of examiners
shall
approve,) in the penalty of two hundred pounds current money, for the faithful
discharge of his duty agreeably to this act. |
Pilots to give
bond, &c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That the said board of examiners may make such rules
and orders for the government and regulation of pilots appointed and licensed
by
them, as they may think proper; and the said board may, by their order,
deprive
any of the said pilots of their licence, or suspend them for a limited
time,
for breaking such rules or orders, or omitting any thing required by the
same,
or for acting in any manner contrary thereto; and if any of the said pilots
so suspended
or deprived, during the time of such suspension or deprivation, shall take
upon him to pilot or conduct any vessel, such pilot shall forfeit and pay
fifty
pounds current money. |
Board may
make rules,
&c. |
X. And,
for the encouragement of pilots to do their duty, Be
it enacted,
That ever master of a merchant vessel drawing nine feet water or upwards,
coming from sea, shall be obliged to receive the first pilot who offers
below the
Horse-shoe to conduct 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 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 first
applicant;
and the master of every vessel having no pilot on board, who shall
follow another vessel that has a pilot on board, shall pay him half pilotage;
and
every pilot shall be exempt from militia duty during the time he shall
act as pilot. |
Vessels obliged
to receive
pilots,
&c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That every pilot cruising or standing out to sea, shall
offer his services first to the vessel nearest the land or in most distress,
under the
penalty of twenty pounds current money; and if any pilot, not being hindered
by sickness or other lawful cause, shall refuse to go on board any vessel,
when
required by the master, to execute his office, such pilot shall forfeit
and pay fifty
pounds current money; and in either case, upon complaint and conviction
before
the board of examiners, such pilot shall be liable to be suspended by them
for
such time as they shall 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 five
pounds current money for every neglect. |
Pilot to offer
first to the
vessel nearest
land, &c. |
XII. And be
it enacted, That if any pilot shall negligently or carelessly lose
any vessel under his cae, 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 be entitled to no pilotage, and if by negligence,
he
shall also be liable by action at common law to pay all damages occasioned
thereby. |
Penalty for
negligence,
&c. |
XIII. 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, |
Rates of pilotage,
&c. |
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