WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1283

supervision, maintenance and direction of this fund herein
referred to shall be vested in the Board of Pilot Examiners.

13. The master or owner of any vessel bound up or
down the Pocomoke River or any river whose mouth is
bounded on both sides by the Eastern Shore of Maryland
shall not be required to take out any license from the Board
of Pilots or to pay any pilotage to or from any of said
rivers unless a pilot be employed; provided, the master
or owner of any vessel shall not touch in any of said rivers
on their passage to or from Baltimore for the purpose of
avoiding any of the provisions of this Article, and pro-
vided, further, however, the provision of this section of
this Article shall not apply to the master or owner of any
vessel passing in or out through the Chesapeake and Dela-
ware Canal and its approaches.

14. No pilot shall charge or receive any greater or less
reward or compensation for his services as such than
follows: for piloting any vessel drawing thirteen feet of
water or over from any port in this State to sea or to the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, or coming from sea or
from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and bound to
any river of this State and to any port thereof, or bound
from sea to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal or from
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to sea, Six Dollars
and Fifty Cents for each foot of water she may draw;
for every vessel drawing ten feet of water and less than
thirteen feet, Five Dollars for each foot she may draw;
for all vessels drawing less than ten feet of watr, Four
Dollars and Fifty Cents for each foot of water they may
draw.

15. Any licensed pilot refusing on due notice being
given him to aid any vessel in distress within six leagues
southward of Cape Henry, or to the same distance east-
ward of Cape Henry or in the Chesapeake Bay, shall on
proof thereof, forfeit and pay One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars ($150.00) to the Board of Pilot Examiners, and
his license as a pilot shall be revoked and he shall there-
after be incapable of serving as a pilot.

16. If any master of any vessel shall carry any licensed
pilot to sea, under circumstances beyond the control of the
said licensed pilot, the master of said vessel shall pay the said
licensed pilot at the rate of Five Dollars ($5.00) per day
until the said pilot's return or death; he shall also provide
first class accommodations and maintenance and the said
pilot shall be returned to his home port at the first oppor-