are infirm, and what is the ratable distribution received by each
from the common fond since the 1st of January, 1853 ?

9. State if you have any knowledge of the amount of pilot-
age received at cape Henry, and whether or not the same is
carried into the common fund ?

10.   Does statement marked [A] exhibit a full and correct state-
ment of the entire fund received for pilotage from every source ?
state the various sources for which the said fund is raised for
distribution ?

11.   How many of these pilots are in the employ of steam and
other vessels, engaged at a monthly salary? Does the money
there received go to the support of the Pilot association ?

12.   Do or do not the Pilots, engaged on steam or other vessels
have the privilege of returning to their business as Pilots, if
they perform any service within three years ?

13.   State if the association now own as many boats as the law
requires them to run ? if not, when did you part with them, and
why?

14.   What the longest and shortest passage you have ever made
up and down the bay?

CROSS INTERROGATORIES.

1.  Have the Board of Examiners, passed any new candidate
for examination, since June 1st, 1853.

2.  What is the average time of vessels making up and down
the bay.

3.  Have you any knowledge of the present revenue of the pi-
lots, except as derived from themselves? If nay, say whether
your knowledge of their inability to cruise for the want of proper
support, is not derived from the same source.

4.  Have you kept a close supervision of the finances of the pi-
lots, previous to the year, 1853 and subsequently, and given
their business affairs such an examination as to enable you to
speak understandingly on this subject.

5.  Do you or do you not, believe the passage of the proposed
bill, would protect commerce and tend to the protection of hu-
man life.

6.   Have you any knowledge whether the pilots belonging to
other ports are permitted to go into other business, and return to
-piloting at their pleasure and convenience?

7.   Have you or not, frequently navigated the Chesapeake,
while you were in command of a square-rigged vessel, without
the services of a pilot.

8.  When you cruised out fifty or a hundred miles from Cape
Henry, was it not at a period when there was competition be-
tween yourselves, and which does not now exist among the pilots.

9 Was, or was not, the piloting business as much a monopoly
prior to 1852, as it is now? and did not that law compel pilots to

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