HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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4.

An apprentice pilot shall serve as such for not less than
two years and such time thereafter as the Association shall
determine from observation of his aptitude, knowledge and
efficiency; after said period of apprenticeship said apprentice
shall be certified by the Association to the Board of Examiners
who shall examine each applicant producing such certification;
and if upon examination the person shall appear to the Board of
sufficient ability, skill and experience they shall grant him one
of three kinds of warrants of appointment and license, under
seal, according to the qualification of such person, thereby
authorizing him for one year from the date of such warrant either
to pilot such vessels of any draught of water, or vessels not
exceeding twenty-four feet draught, or vessels not exceeding
seventeen feet draught; and every person receiving such warrant
and appointment shall thereafter be reported a lawful pilot;
provided, however, that no person shall be entitled to receive a
warrant as a first rate pilot unless he shall have served at
least five years in the business of piloting and shall be
eighteen years of age; each apprentice pilot presenting himself
for the above examination shall pay to the Board of Examiners the
sum of five dollars ($5.00)[, and to the register of said Board
the sum of seventy-five cents].

5.

No person shall be authorized or permitted to be a pilot
unless he shall have first received a license from the Board of
Pilot Examiners. Every new license shall be applied for in the
months of April or May in every year and every pilot shall renew
his warrant or license biennially in the months of April or May
in each even-numbered year and no renewals shall be granted at
any other time or new licenses applied for, except in the
discretion of the Board of Examiners; and the Board of Examiners
may renew any license or not, as they may think proper. A
certificate of authorization shall expire on May 30 of each
even-numbered year. Any pilot absenting himself from the
business of piloting (unless occasioned by sickness), for a term
of one year, shall not be entitled to any warrant or license to
act as pilot thereafter, but his license shall be revoked by the
Board of Pilot Examiners. Every first rate pilot shall pay [$4]
$400, and every second rate pilot shall pay [$3] $300, and every
third rate pilot shall pay [$2] $200 to the [register of the]
Board of Examiners for such renewal.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.