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offer to conduct or pilot such vessel; and the pilot shall pay such
person one-half of the fees received by him for the pilotage of such

vessel.

1904, art. 74, sec. 15. 1888, art 74, sec. 15. 1860, art. 74, sec. 15.
1853, ch. 214, sec. 6.

15. The board of examiners may make such rules and orders for
the government and regulations of pilots licensed by them as they may
think proper, not contrary to the provisions of this article; and they
may, by their order, deprive any pilot of his license or suspend him for
a limited time for breaking such rules or orders or omitting anything
required by the same or for acting in any manner contrary thereto.
And if any pilot so suspended or deprived shall during the time of
such suspension or deprivation take upon himself to conduct or pilot
any vessel, he shall forfeit and pay one hundred and fifty dollars for
each offense.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1888, art 74, sec. 16. 1866, ch. 25. 1896, ch. 40.

16. All masters of foreign vessels and vessels from a foreign port
and all vessels sailing under register bound to and from Baltimore city,
except vessels employed in and licensed for the coasting trade and
American vessels laden either in whole or in part with coke or coal
mined in the United States shall take a licensed pilot, or in case of
refusal to take such pilot shall themselves, their owners or consignees
pay the said pilotage as if one had been employed, and such pilotage
shall be paid to the pilot first speaking or offering his services as pilot
to such vessels before Cape Henry bears south, if inward bound.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1888, art. 74, sec. 17. 1896, ch. 40.

17. Vessels employed in and licensed for the coasting trade shall
be exempt from the duty of employing a pilot, and the vessels, as well
as their masters, owners, agents or consignees, shall be exempt from
the duty of paying pilotage, half pilotage or any penalty whatsoever
in case of their neglect or refusal to do so; any American vessel laden
either in whole or in part with coke or coal mined in the United
States shall be exempt from the duty of taking a pilot and the vessel,
as well as her master, owner, agent or consignee, shall be exempt from
the duty of paying pilotage, or half pilotage, or any penalty whatso-
ever in case of his neglect or refusal so to do. But a coastwise vessel
or such American vessel laden either in whole or in part with coke or
coal, mined as aforesaid, voluntarily taking a pilot shall pay the same
fee for pilotage as prescribed in the case of a vessel bound to or
from a foreign port.

The portion of this section exempting from the compulsory pilotage laws
vessels laden in whole or in part with coke or coal mined in the United
States, applies only to vessels which in a commercial sense are coal-laden or
carry a reasonable cargo thereof; it has no application to a vessel which
carries only a small quantity of coal as ballast. The Edmund Phinney, 80
Fed. 558.