ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1803.

shall run any vessel o re, he shall not be entitled to any pilotage, and if by negligence, he shall
also be liable by action at common law to pay all damages occasioned thereby.

CHAP.
LXIII.

XIII. AND, for preventing exorbitant demands for pilotage, BE IT ENACTED, That no greater
reward for pilotage shall be taken than is allowed by this act, to wit: For every vessel from sea to
Baltimore city, three dollars and fifty cents, and from said city of Baltimore to sea, three dollars
for each and every foot of water she shall draw, and from the mouth of Patowmack to George-town,
and vice versa, there shall be an addition of one fifth to the above rates, and so in proportion for any
less distance from any other port of this state to sea, or from sea to any other port of this state,
such distance to be fixed by the said board of examiners; but no pilot shall receive any reward or
pay for any supernumerary inches under six.

Rates of pilot-
age, &c.

XIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any vessel bound to sea, or to any of the ports within this state,
and under the direction of a pilot appointed under this act, shall touch at Hampton Road, and from
any other cause than distress of weather, the said pilot may demand and receive from the master oF
such vessel the sum of twelve dollars for conducting in any such vessel, and the sum of ten dollars
for bringing her out again, and if any vessel bound to sea, or any of the ports above or below the
mouth of Severn, shall touch at the port of Annapolis for any other cause than distress of weather,
the pilot may demand and receive from the master thereof the sum of three dollars for every day he
is detained with such vessel.

Allowance for
vessels touch-
ing at Hamp-
ton road, &c.

XV. AND, to the end that strangers may not be imposed on in the rates of pilotage, as settled by
this act, BE IT ENACTED, That every pilot appointed in pursuance of this act, shall be obliged, when
he receives his pilotage, to product copy of this act to the master of the vessel or owner, to shew
that he demands no greater reward than is allowed by this act, and if any pilot shall neglect to shew
such copy at the time of receiving his pilotage, he shall forfeit and pay twenty dollars, and if he
shall refuse on request to produce such copy, he shall forfeit and pay sixty dollars.

Pilot to pro-
duce a copy of
of this act, &c.

XVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any master of any vessel shall carry any licensed pilot to
sea against his inctination, such master shall pay to a first rate pilot thirty dollars per month, if his
boat be with him, if not, twenty dollars per month, until his return or death; to a second rate pilot
twenty-four dollars per month, if his boat be with him, if not, sixteen dollars per month, until his
return or death; to a third rate pilot twenty dollars per month, if his boat be with him, if not,
twelve dollars per month, until his return or death; and if any master shall carry any licensed pilot
to sea against his inctination, when his boat, or any other boat, is ready and offers to take him off,
and the same may be done without endangering the vessel, such master shall pay such pilot three
hundred dollars over and above the wages aforesaid.

Wages allowed
to pilots carried
to sea, &c.

XVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any licensed pilot refusing, on due notice being given him, to
and any vessel in distress, within six leagues to the southward of Cape- Henry, or the same distance
to the eastward of Gape-Charles, or in Chesapeake bay, every such pilot, so refusing to aid any ves-
sel in distress as above required, on proof thereof before the said board, shall be rendered incapable
of serving as a pilot.

Pilots to aid
vessels in dis-
tress, &c.

XVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any pilot taking charge as by this act he is obliged,
without distinction of vessels, of such as coming from places exposed to visits of infectious diseases,
and which vessels are by law subjected to quarantine, in such case the pilot thus detained on board
shall be entitled to receive, and shall be paid, the sum of two dollars per day, in the same manner
is for pilotage, while detained under the regulation of the quarantine laws.

To be allowed
when subjected
to quarantine,
&c.

XIX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any master of a vessel shall give notice to the pilot he
shall employ of the time and place such master shall appoint for his attendance, and such pilot shall
attend accordingly,- he may demand and take four dollars for every ctay he shall be detained by such
naster not being ready to proceed according to his notice, and if any pilot shall attend, on request
of any roaster, with his boat and hands, he may demand and take eight dollars for every day his
boat and hands shall be detained by such master's not being ready to proceed according to his notice.

And for deten-
tion, &c.

XX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every pilot shall, within three months after he obtains his war-
rant as aforesaid, if possible, take one white apprentice at the least, and employ him constantly on
board his boat, instructing him in the art of piloting, and such apprentice shall have freedom dues,
and the usual allowance to apprentices at the expiration of their time, and all such apprentices shall
be exempt from militia duty during the time of their apprenticeship.

To take an ap-
prentice, &c.