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be granted at any other time or new licenses applied for,
except in the discretion of the Board of Examiners; and
the Board of Examiners may renew any license or not, as
they may think proper. Any pilot absenting himself from
the business of piloting (unless occasioned by sickness),
for a term of one year, shall not be entitled to any warrant
or license to act as pilot thereafter, but his license shall
be revoked by the Board of Pilot Examiners. Every first
rate pilot shall pay Two Dollars ($2.00), and every second
rate pilot shall pay One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50),
and every third rate pilot shall pay One Dollar ($1.00)
to the Register of the Board of Examiners for such
renewal.

6. The Board of Pilot Examiners may increase or
decrease the number of pilots as they may deem necessary
for the protection of the commercial interests of the State.

7. Every member of the Board, before he proceeds to
examine any person applying for a warrant, shall take
the following oath: I, .............................................................................................

do swear that I will impartially examine and inquire into
the capacity, skill and experience of the applicant or appli-
cants in the art of piloting in the Chesapeake Bay and the
rivers thereof and will admit them as I find them qualified,
or reject them if I shall find them unqualified, without
favor, affection or reward.

8. No person shall make any demand to pilot any
vessel unless he shall have a branch or license, issued by
the Board of Examiners of Maryland Pilots, to the destined
port of said vessels. If any person not having such license
as a pilot shall take upon himself to conduct or pilot any
vessel bound from any port in this State to sea or through
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, or coming from sea
or through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and bound
to any river of this State and to any port thereof, or bound
from sea or any port outside this State to any other desti-
nation outside this State by way of the Chesapeake Bay
and Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, he shall forfeit One
Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($150.00), and shall also be
liable for all damages occasioned by his undertaking to
conduct or pilot any such vessel; but this prohibition shall
not prevent any person from assisting any vessel in dis-
tress, 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 the pilot shall pay such person one-half of
the fees received by him for the pilotage of such vessel.

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