WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 17.

CHAP. 17.

A further supplement to an ad, entitled an act to regulate
pilots and to establish their fees, passed November session
eighteen hundred and three, chapter sixty-three.

Passed Mar. 6,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

vessel going to sea, whether sailing under a coasting li-
cense, or registered of the burthen of one hundred and
twenty tons and upwards, shall be obliged to receive the
first pilot -who offers to conduct or pilot his vessel, and
shall continue the same pilot to the capes, or shall pay to

Every master of

of a merchant

vessel, &c. to

receive first pi-
lot, &c.

him half pilotage; provided, the said pilot shall speak or
board said vessel above Fort McHenry, and shall be duly
licensed to act as pilot; and provided further, that the
pilot who shall have conducted any vessel from the capes
into port, shall be entitled to take charge of the same ves-
sel as pilot to the capes on her next voyage.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any master or owner

registered of the burthen of one hundred tons and up-
wards, coming from sea, shall be obliged to take the first
pilot who shall offer to conduct or pilot his vessel, and
shall continue the same to the port of destination, or shall

Coming from

sea to receive

first pilot, &c.

pay to him half pilotage; 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.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the owners of all ves-
sels of the burthen of seventy-five tons and upwards, not
exceeding one hundred tons, before going to sea, shall
apply to the board of pilots for a license to navigate the
Chesapeake Bay, and shall pay to the said board for such
license at the rate of six cents per ton, and such license
shall be good for twelve months.

Application to
be made to the
board of pilots.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the master of any ves-
sel, for which a license is made necessary by the prece-
ding section, who shall navigate the same without such
license, shall subject himself to receive a pilot upon the
same terms as is provided for in the first section of this

Failure to navi-

gate without
license.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the amount collected,
from time to time, for licenses under the provisions of
this act, shall be applied, in the discretion of the board,
to the relief of superanuated pilots, or to the relief of the

Monies collect-

ed, and how ap-
plied.