Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend and re-enact and repeal certain sections of
the Code of Virginia, in relation to Pilots.

Passed February 19, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of chapter ninety-two of the Code of Vir-
ginia of eighteen hundred and sixty be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ1. The court of Elizabeth City county shall appoint
five persons, of whom three shall be pilots qualified according
to law, to constitute a board of commissioners to examine
persons applying for branches as pilots, who shall meet at the
town of Hampton; and the court of the corporation of the
city of Norfolk shall appoint an equal number, of which three
shall be pilots qualified as aforesaid, to constitute a board of
commissioners for the same purpose, to meet at the city of
Norfolk.”

2. The seventh section of the aforesaid chapter is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 7. Every pilot, or the company to which he belongs,
shall keep one sufficient boat of at least thirty feet keel,
which he shall be attached to and cruise in: and any one
acting as a pilot without having such a boat, shall forfeit ene
banedred andl fifty dollars.”

%. The cleventh section of the aforesaid chapter is hercby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$f. [If any person not authorized by law, or any pilot,
after removines from the state, shall undertake to conduet or
pilot. a vesscl to or trom sea, or to or from any port or place
in Virginia, or if any master or person on board any steam-
boat or towbuat, shall tow a vessel to or from sca, or to or
from any port or place in Virginia, except as authorized by
this act, without having a pilot on board such vessel, if one
shall offer his services, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
deineanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned
in the county or city jel for not less than one nor more than
three months, and fined any sum not excecding one hundred
dollars, at the discretion of the court; and any master em-
ploying any person not authorized by law, or any pilot who
has removed from the state, or any steamboat or towboat,
when such beat is not authorized by law to conduct his ves-
sel, to act as a pilot of his vessel, shall forfeit and pay one
hundred dolars to any regular branch pilot who shall sue for
the same: and warrents for such offenders may be issued
upon the orth of any party complaiming, by any justice of
the peace of any county, or mayor or justice of any city In
this state, in which such offender may be at the time; and
upon proof of probable cause, the oifendcr shall be bound,
with security in due form of law, to appear at the next term
of the circuit court, or of the court of the county or corpo-
ration, for trial of such misdemeanor: and the circuit court
of the county or city, 2 and the court of such county or corpo-

ration, shall have Jurisdiction for the trial thereof, as in other
caves of misdemeanor.”

4. The thirteenth section of the said chapter is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“S05. The master of every vessel (other than a coasting
vessel having a pilot heensed), Inward beomnd from sca, shall
trke the first Vi irginia pilot that offers his services, ‘Cape
ilenry bearing w est of south, to the port or place of desti-
nation within this commonwealth of such vessel; and any
such vessel outward bound, shall take the first pilot that offers
his services at the port or place of departure of the said
vessel; and any master refusing to do so, shall immediately
pay to the suid pilot full pilotage from sea to the port or
place of destination of the said vessel, or from the port or
place of departure of said) vessel, as the case may be. But
no master of a vessel coming from sea shall be compelled to
take a pilot after arriving within the ne at which Cape
Ilenry bears west of south.”

5, The fitecnth section of the said chapter is hereby
repeale “l,

G. ‘The seventeenth section of the said chapter is hereby
anended and re-enacted go as to read as follows :

“S90. Pilots shall have pilotave at the following rates :
toy every registercd vessel owned by citizens of the Umited
States, and for every vessel owned by a citizen ov smijcet of
any foreign state, whose vessels are by treaty placed on the
same footing as vessels of the United States; if the vessel
be spoken or boarded eastwar do of Cape Henry, there shall
be paid for each foot the vessel draws. as iollows:

From sea to Hampton loads to Yorktown:

Vessels drawing less than twelve fect, - - x2 68
Vessels drawing twelve fect and less than sixteen

feet, - - - - - . 2 G5
Vessels drawing sixteen fect and less than ei¢hteen

feet, - - - - - - 35h
Vessels drawing eightcen fect and upwards, - 400

From Hampton Roads or Yorktown to sea, there shall
be paid as follows

Vessels drawing less than twelve fect, - - 8 1 65
Vessels drawing twelve feet and Jess than sixteen

fect, ; : . : . - 23h
Vessels drawing sixteen feet and Tess than cighteen

feet, - - - - - . 5 00
Vessels drawing eighteen feet and upwards, - 36h

Irom Hampton Roads to Norfolk or Portsm outh, or any
place between Hampton Roads and said places, seventy cents
per foot; from Hampton Roads to Jamestown, or any place
between. Ilampton Roads and Jamestown, one dollar end
thirty-five cents per foot; from Hampton Loads to City
Point or Bermuda Hundred, or any place between James-
town and City Point and Bermuda Hundred, two dollars and
sixty-five cents per foot: and the same rates of pilotave shall
be paid from said places, respectively, down to Tlampton
Roads; and there shall be no pilotage above City Point.
Vessels coming from sea to Hampton loads, and from thence
to any port in Maryland, shall be subject to the same law
and rates of pilotaye as vessels bound from Hlampton loads
to sea.”

7. The nineteenth section of the said chapter is hereby :
amended and re-enacted so as to read as tollows:

Ҥ19. Hereafter, the rates of pilotage on all vessels of
war shall be as follows: On each vessel, three dollars and
thirty-five cents per foot from sea to Hampton Roads; from
Hampton Roads to the naval anchorage, three dollars and
thirty-five cents per foot; from the naval anchorace to Ham}
ton Roads, three dollars and thirty-five cents per foot; from
Hampton Roads to sea, three dollars and thirty-five oents per
foot; from the naval anchorage to the navy yard at Gosport,
or from the said navy yard to the naval anchorage, twenty
dollars on each vessel; and for every day a pilot shall be ac-
tually on board any vessel of war, four dollars per day, and
four dollars per day for each day’s detention, in anticipation
of the sailing of such vessel; and such detention shall he
considered as commencing from the time the pilot shal! re-
ceive notice that his services are required.”

8, The twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second scetions |
of the said chapter are hereby amended and re-enacted seas.
to read as follows:
“$20. If the master of any vessel shall conceal or obscure
the name thereof, or refuse to disclose the same when spoken
by a pilot, he shall forfeit to said pilot fifty dollars.”

Ҥ21. If any pilot, notified to attend a vessel, shall be de-
tained, he shall have three dollars for each day’s detention.”

Ҥ22. Every pilot who shall attend any vessel with his
boat, at the request of the master or owner, shall have
twenty dollars per day, and every master carrying any pilot
to sea, shall pay him wages at the rate of seventy-five dollars
per month.”

9. The twenty-fourth section of the said chapter is hereby
repealed.

10. The twenty-eighth section of the said chapter is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$28. The first pilot who meets a vessel coming in, which
his branch entitles him to conduct, shall have the right to
take charge of and conduct the said vessel to her port or
place of destination within this state, and to receive the
pilotage allowed by law.”

11. The fortieth section of said chapter is hereby amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 40. Any pilot first meeting a vessel coming from sea,
shall enquire into the health of her crew, and the place from
which she last came; and if she has any dangerous infectious
disease on board, or comes from any place from which vessels
coming are required to perform quarantine in this state, or
any port thereof, he shall direct said vessel to follow his boat,
and carefully conduct her to the nearest place appointed for
vessels to perform quarantine; and shall, as soon as possible,
give notice thereof to the health officer of the port nearest
thereto. For which service, said pilot shall be entitled to an
extra fee of twenty dollars beyond the regular fees of pilot-
age; to be paid by the master or owner of such vessel; and
if any pilot shall be permitted to go on board a vessel with-
out being informed of a contagious disease being on board,
and be obliged to remain on board, or perform quarantine in
consequence thereof, he shall have four dollars for every day's
detention; to be paid as aforesaid.”

12. The forty-second section of said chapter is hereby re-
pealed, and in lieu thereof the following is enacted and
substituted : -

Ҥ 42. Every pilot who has heretofore received a branch
shall, within one month after the reorganization of the board
of examiners, under the first section of this chapter, be re-
examined; and the branch, once granted, shall be annually
renewed by the board of commissioners to such pilot, upon
his production of a certificate of good conduct from the com-
pany to which he belongs.”

13. This act shall be in force from its passage.
Chap. 47.—An ACT to amend and re-enact and repeal certain sections of
the Code of Virginia, in relation to Pilots.

Passed February 19, 1866.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of chapter ninety-two of the Code of Vir-
ginia of eighteen hundred and sixty be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ1. The court of Elizabeth City county shall appoint
five persons, of whom three shall be pilots qualified according
to law, to constitute a board of commissioners to examine
persons applying for branches as pilots, who shall meet at the
town of Hampton; and the court of the corporation of the
city of Norfolk shall appoint an equal number, of which three
shall be pilots qualified as aforesaid, to constitute a board of
commissioners for the same purpose, to meet at the city of
Norfolk.”

2. The seventh section of the aforesaid chapter is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 7. Every pilot, or the company to which he belongs,
shall keep one sufficient boat of at least thirty feet keel,
which he shall be attached to and cruise in: and any one
acting as a pilot without having such a boat, shall forfeit ene
banedred andl fifty dollars.”

%. The cleventh section of the aforesaid chapter is hercby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$f. [If any person not authorized by law, or any pilot,
after removines from the state, shall undertake to conduet or
pilot. a vesscl to or trom sea, or to or from any port or place
in Virginia, or if any master or person on board any steam-
boat or towbuat, shall tow a vessel to or from sca, or to or
from any port or place in Virginia, except as authorized by
this act, without having a pilot on board such vessel, if one
shall offer his services, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
deineanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned
in the county or city jel for not less than one nor more than
three months, and fined any sum not excecding one hundred
dollars, at the discretion of the court; and any master em-
ploying any person not authorized by law, or any pilot who
has removed from the state, or any steamboat or towboat,
when such beat is not authorized by law to conduct his ves-
sel, to act as a pilot of his vessel, shall forfeit and pay one
hundred dolars to any regular branch pilot who shall sue for
the same: and warrents for such offenders may be issued
upon the orth of any party complaiming, by any justice of
the peace of any county, or mayor or justice of any city In
this state, in which such offender may be at the time; and
upon proof of probable cause, the oifendcr shall be bound,
with security in due form of law, to appear at the next term
of the circuit court, or of the court of the county or corpo-
ration, for trial of such misdemeanor: and the circuit court
of the county or city, 2 and the court of such county or corpo-

ration, shall have Jurisdiction for the trial thereof, as in other
caves of misdemeanor.”

4. The thirteenth section of the said chapter is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“S05. The master of every vessel (other than a coasting
vessel having a pilot heensed), Inward beomnd from sca, shall
trke the first Vi irginia pilot that offers his services, ‘Cape
ilenry bearing w est of south, to the port or place of desti-
nation within this commonwealth of such vessel; and any
such vessel outward bound, shall take the first pilot that offers
his services at the port or place of departure of the said
vessel; and any master refusing to do so, shall immediately
pay to the suid pilot full pilotage from sea to the port or
place of destination of the said vessel, or from the port or
place of departure of said) vessel, as the case may be. But
no master of a vessel coming from sea shall be compelled to
take a pilot after arriving within the ne at which Cape
Ilenry bears west of south.”

5, The fitecnth section of the said chapter is hereby
repeale “l,

G. ‘The seventeenth section of the said chapter is hereby
anended and re-enacted go as to read as follows :

“S90. Pilots shall have pilotave at the following rates :
toy every registercd vessel owned by citizens of the Umited
States, and for every vessel owned by a citizen ov smijcet of
any foreign state, whose vessels are by treaty placed on the
same footing as vessels of the United States; if the vessel
be spoken or boarded eastwar do of Cape Henry, there shall
be paid for each foot the vessel draws. as iollows:

From sea to Hampton loads to Yorktown:

Vessels drawing less than twelve fect, - - x2 68
Vessels drawing twelve fect and less than sixteen

feet, - - - - - . 2 G5
Vessels drawing sixteen fect and less than ei¢hteen

feet, - - - - - - 35h
Vessels drawing eightcen fect and upwards, - 400

From Hampton Roads or Yorktown to sea, there shall
be paid as follows

Vessels drawing less than twelve fect, - - 8 1 65
Vessels drawing twelve feet and Jess than sixteen

fect, ; : . : . - 23h
Vessels drawing sixteen feet and Tess than cighteen

feet, - - - - - . 5 00
Vessels drawing eighteen feet and upwards, - 36h

Irom Hampton Roads to Norfolk or Portsm outh, or any
place between Hampton Roads and said places, seventy cents
per foot; from Hampton Roads to Jamestown, or any place
between. Ilampton Roads and Jamestown, one dollar end
thirty-five cents per foot; from Hampton Loads to City
Point or Bermuda Hundred, or any place between James-
town and City Point and Bermuda Hundred, two dollars and
sixty-five cents per foot: and the same rates of pilotave shall
be paid from said places, respectively, down to Tlampton
Roads; and there shall be no pilotage above City Point.
Vessels coming from sea to Hampton loads, and from thence
to any port in Maryland, shall be subject to the same law
and rates of pilotaye as vessels bound from Hlampton loads
to sea.”

7. The nineteenth section of the said chapter is hereby :
amended and re-enacted so as to read as tollows:

Ҥ19. Hereafter, the rates of pilotage on all vessels of
war shall be as follows: On each vessel, three dollars and
thirty-five cents per foot from sea to Hampton Roads; from
Hampton Roads to the naval anchorage, three dollars and
thirty-five cents per foot; from the naval anchorace to Ham}
ton Roads, three dollars and thirty-five cents per foot; from
Hampton Roads to sea, three dollars and thirty-five oents per
foot; from the naval anchorage to the navy yard at Gosport,
or from the said navy yard to the naval anchorage, twenty
dollars on each vessel; and for every day a pilot shall be ac-
tually on board any vessel of war, four dollars per day, and
four dollars per day for each day’s detention, in anticipation
of the sailing of such vessel; and such detention shall he
considered as commencing from the time the pilot shal! re-
ceive notice that his services are required.”

8, The twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second scetions |
of the said chapter are hereby amended and re-enacted seas.
to read as follows:
“$20. If the master of any vessel shall conceal or obscure
the name thereof, or refuse to disclose the same when spoken
by a pilot, he shall forfeit to said pilot fifty dollars.”

Ҥ21. If any pilot, notified to attend a vessel, shall be de-
tained, he shall have three dollars for each day’s detention.”

Ҥ22. Every pilot who shall attend any vessel with his
boat, at the request of the master or owner, shall have
twenty dollars per day, and every master carrying any pilot
to sea, shall pay him wages at the rate of seventy-five dollars
per month.”

9. The twenty-fourth section of the said chapter is hereby
repealed.

10. The twenty-eighth section of the said chapter is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

“$28. The first pilot who meets a vessel coming in, which
his branch entitles him to conduct, shall have the right to
take charge of and conduct the said vessel to her port or
place of destination within this state, and to receive the
pilotage allowed by law.”

11. The fortieth section of said chapter is hereby amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ 40. Any pilot first meeting a vessel coming from sea,
shall enquire into the health of her crew, and the place from
which she last came; and if she has any dangerous infectious
disease on board, or comes from any place from which vessels
coming are required to perform quarantine in this state, or
any port thereof, he shall direct said vessel to follow his boat,
and carefully conduct her to the nearest place appointed for
vessels to perform quarantine; and shall, as soon as possible,
give notice thereof to the health officer of the port nearest
thereto. For which service, said pilot shall be entitled to an
extra fee of twenty dollars beyond the regular fees of pilot-
age; to be paid by the master or owner of such vessel; and
if any pilot shall be permitted to go on board a vessel with-
out being informed of a contagious disease being on board,
and be obliged to remain on board, or perform quarantine in
consequence thereof, he shall have four dollars for every day's
detention; to be paid as aforesaid.”

12. The forty-second section of said chapter is hereby re-
pealed, and in lieu thereof the following is enacted and
substituted : -

Ҥ 42. Every pilot who has heretofore received a branch
shall, within one month after the reorganization of the board
of examiners, under the first section of this chapter, be re-
examined; and the branch, once granted, shall be annually
renewed by the board of commissioners to such pilot, upon
his production of a certificate of good conduct from the com-
pany to which he belongs.”

13. This act shall be in force from its passage.