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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 286.

CHAPTER 285.

Passed Mar. 30,
1839.

An act to divorce Elizabeth Laffee from her husband.
Lewis Laffee.

Divorce.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
Elizabeth Laffee be, and she is hereby divorced from
her husband Lewis Laffee, a vinculo matrimonii.

CHAPTER 286.

Passed April 1,
1839.

A further supplement to the act entitled, an act to estab-
lish Pilots, anil regulate their fees, passed at Novem-
ber session eighteen hundred and three.

Winter changes for

March.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Pilots of the Chesapeake Bay, or
either, or any of them, be and they are hereby author-
ized and allowed to charge for their services, during
the month of March, the same rates of pilotage they
are now by law allowed to charge in the months of
December, January and February.

Restriction under

21 years of age.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-
ful for the board of examiners, or any other person or
persons having authority to grant warrants or licenses
to pilots, to grant to any person or persons under the
age of twenty-one years, a warrant or license general-
ly known as a first rate branch.

Vessels of 70 tons

shall take first pi-

lot.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That every master of a
merchant vessel, sailing under coasting license, of the
burthen of seventy-five tons and upwards, coming
from sea, shall be obliged to receive the first pilot who
offers to conduct or pilot his vessel, and shall contin-

Or pay.

Provided.

ue the same pilot to his first port of discharge, or shall
pay to him full pilotage to said port; provided said pilot
shall speak or board said vessel before Cape Henry
Light House shall bear south; and provided also, the
said pilot shall have a branch or license to the destined
port of said vessel.

Part of act of 1803,

repealed.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That so much of the act
entitled, "an act to establish pilots and regulate their
fees", passed at November session eighteen hundred
and three, together with, so much of the supplement or