2336 ARTICLE 74.

ARTICLE 74.

PILOTS.

1. Board of examiners a body politic. 2. Board of examiners of Maryland pilots, of whom composed. Pilots to pay said board $1,000 to defray expenses. 3. Applicant to be a pilot; must produce certificate of honesty and good be- havior. 4. Board to examine each applicant; ap- pointment and license. 5. Fees. 6. Warrant as first rate pilot. 7. Annual renewal of license. 8. Fees for renewal. 9. First rate license not to be granted to minor. 10. Board may increase or decrease num- ber of pilots. 11. Oath of board before examining any applicant. 12. Pilot not to act unless his company keeps sufficient pilot boat. 13. Pilot to have license to destined port of any vessel he demands to pilot; name of boat to be put on stern, mainsail and foresail. 14. No person not licensed shall undertake to pilot any vessel; penalty.

15. Board may make rules; may suspend or withdraw license. 16. What vessels required to pay pilotage. 17. What vessels exempt. 18. Masters shall take licensed pilot or pay full pilotage. 19. Money collected under secs. 16 and 17, ho'w distributable. 20. Special provisions as to masters and owners of vessels on Pocomoke river and Eastern shore. 21. Rates of pilotage. 22. Deduction from pilot rates, when al- lowed. 23. Pilot absent three years. 24. Pilot refusing to aid vessel in distress. 25. Carrying licensed pilot to sea against his inclination; penalty. 26. Penalty for employing vessels as pilot boat without license. 27. Detention of pilots. 28. Master to continue pilot to port or to sea. 29. Pilots to keep three boats at sea. 30. In what cases this article inapplicable.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1853, ch. 214, sec. 3.

1. The board of examiners of pilots is a body politic and corporate,
and may appoint a register who shall enter in a book to be provided for
that purpose all applications to and all other proceedings of the said board
and shall countersign all warrants for pilots granted by the board.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1892, ch. 532.

2. The board of examiners of Maryland pilots shall consist of three
members composed of the following persons: The president of the board
of trade, the president of the corn and flour exchange and the president

As to scope and force of state pilot laws, see Revised Statutes United States, secs.
4235-6 and 4400-1; also Hobart v. Dugan, 10 Peters, 121; License Cases, 5 Howard, 580;
Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 12 Howard, 299; Ex parte, McNiel, 13 Wallace, 236.