1628 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 755

such vessel; but this prohibition shall not prevent any
person from assisting any vessel in distress, if such per-
son 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.

16. All masters of foreign vessels and vessels from a
foreign port and all vessels sailing under register bound
to and from Baltimore City, or passing in or out of the
Chesapeake Bay by way of the Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal, 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 themselves, 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.

20. 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 & Delaware
Canal and its approaches.

21. 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, five dollars
and fifty cents for each foot of water she may draw; for
every vessel drawing ten feet of water and less than thir-
teen feet, four dollars for each foot she may draw; for all
vessels drawing less than ten feet of water, three dollars
and fifty cents for each foot of water they may draw.