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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 number of pilots. 11. Oath of board before examining any applicant. 12 Pilot not to act unless his com- pany keeps a 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 ahall undertake to pilot any vessel ; penalty. 15. Board may make rules; may sus- pend 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 sections 16 and 17, how distributable. 20. Special provisions as to masteis and owners of vessels on the Pocomoke river and Eastern shore. 21. Rates of pilotage. 22. Deduction from pilot rates, when allowed. 23. Pilot absent three years. 24. Pilot refusing to aid vessel in distress. 25. Carrying licensed pilot to sea against his inclination, pen- alty. 26. Penalty for employing vessels as pilot boat without license. 27. Detention of pilots; penalty. 28. Master to continue pilot to port . or to sea. 29. Pilots to keep three boats at sea 30. In what cases this article inap- plicable.

1888, art. 74, sec. 1. 1860, art. 74, 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.

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 of the Pilot Associa-
tion and the pilots shall pay the said board one thousand
dollars a year to defray the expenses of said board.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1860, art. 74, sec. 3. 1853, ch, 214, sec. 1.

3. Any person who may desire to be admitted a pilot shall
produce a certificate from the circuit court for the county
wherein he resides, or from the court of common pleas if