492 PILOTS. [ART. 74

1892, ch. 532.

2. The board of examiners of Maryland pilots shall consist of
three members, composed of the following persons: The presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, the president of the Corn and Flour
Exchange and the president of the Pilot Association, and the
pilots shall pay the said board one thousand dollars a year to
defray the expenses of said board.

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 them-
selves, 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.

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 whatsoever 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.