Chap. 173.—An ACT to Repeal Sections One, Two, Three, Four, Five,
Six, Nine and Ten, of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Amend and Re-enact
and Repeal certain Sections of the Code of Viryinia in relation to Pilots,
Passed February 19th, 1866, and to Amend and Ke-enact Sections One,
Seven, Eleven, Thirteen, Fifteen, Seventeen. Twenty-four, and Twenty-

eisht, ‘of Chapter Ninety-two, of the Code of Eighteen Hundred and
Sixty.

Approved March 13, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
the first section of an act to amend and re-enact, and repeal
certain sections of the Code of Virginia, in relation to pilots,
passed February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,
be and is hereby repealed; and the first section of chapter
ninety-two of the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 1. The court of Ilizabeth City county shall appoint five
_persons to constitute a board of commissioners, to examine
' persons applying for branches as pilots, who shall meet at the

town of Hampton; and the hustings court of Norfolk city an
equal number, to constitute a board of commissioners for the
same purpose, to meet at the city of Norfolk.

2. The third section of chapter ninety-two, of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby repealed.

3. The second section of the act aforesaid is hereby re-
pealed; and the seventh section of chapter ninety-two, of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby re-enacted to
read as follows :

§ 7. Every pilot, or the company to which he belongs, shall
_ keep one sufficient boat, of at least eighteen feet keel, whieh
‘he shall be attached to and cruise in, and any one acting as
pilot without having such a boat shall forfeit one hundred and
fifty dollars.

4. The third section of the act aforesaid is hereby repealed ;
and the eleventh section of chapter ninety-two, of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby amended and re-enacted
to read as follows:

€ 11. If any person not authorized by law, or any pilot after
; removing from the state, shall undertake to conduct or pilot a

vessel to or from sea, or to or from any port or place in Virgi-
nia, or if any master or person on board any steamboat or tow-
boat, not towing exclusively on the James or Elizabeth rivers,
shall tow a vessel to or from sea, or to or from any port or
place in Virginia, except as authorized by this act, without hay-
ing a pilot on board such vessel, if one shall offer his services,
he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic-
tion thereof, shall be imprisoned in the county or city Jail for
not less than one nor more than three months, and fined any
sum, not exceeding one hundred dollars, at the discretion of
the court; and any master employing any person not author-
ized by law, or any pilot who has removed from the state, or
any steamboat or towboat not towing exclusively on James or
Klizabeth rivers, when such boat is not authorized by law to
conduct his vessel, to act asa pilot of his vessel, shall forfeit
pnd pay one hundred dollars to any regular branch pilot who
shall sue for the same; and warrants for such offenders may
be issued upon the oath of any party complaining, by any jus-
tice of the peace of any county, or mayor or justice of the
peace of any city, in this state, in which ‘such offender may be
at the time; and, upon proof of probable cause, the offender
shall be bound, with security in due form of law, to appear at
the next term of the circuit, county or hustings court, of said
county or city, for trial of such misdemeanor; and the circuit,
county or hustings court, of said county or city, shall have
jurisdiction for the trial thereof, as in other cases of misde-
meanor.

5. The fourth section of the act aforesaid is hereby repealed ;
and the thirteenth section of chapter ninety-two, of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby re-enacted to read as
follows : .

§ 13. The master of every vessel (other than a coasting ves-
sel having a pilot license), inward bound from sea, shall take
the first Virginia pilot that offers his services, Cape Henry
bearing west of south; and any such vessel, outward bound,
shall take the first pilot that offers his services west of Old
Point Comfort; and any master refusing to do so shall imme-
diately pay to the said pilot full pilotage from sea to Hampton
roads, or from Hampton roads to sea, 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 line at which Cape Henry
bears west of south.

6. The fifth section of the act aforesaid is hereby repealed ;
and the fifteenth section of chapter ninety-two, of the Code of
eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby re-enacted to read as
follows :

§ 15. No master shall be required to have a pilot to conduct
his vessel or steamboat above Hampton roads, Yorktown,
Mobjack bay, Urbana, or Smith’s Point on the Potomac; but
he may by himself, or by any person regularly employed on
board, pilot his own vessel, or he may employ the services of
any towboat regularly employed on the James or Elizabeth
rivers to pilot his vessel: provided, that should the master of
such vessel employ a pilot, he shall not employ any other than
a branch pilot, under the penalty prescribed in the second
clause of section eleven of this act.

7. The sixth section of the act aforesaid is hereby repealed ;
and the seventeenth section of chapter ninety-two, of the Code
of eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby amended and re-
enacted to read as follows:

§17. Pilots shall have pilotage at the following rates: for
every registered vessel owned by citizens of the United States,
and for every vessel owned by a citizen or subject of any for-
eign state, whose vessels are, by treaty, placed on the same
footing as vessels of the United States, if the vessel be spoken
or boarded eastward of Cape Henry, there shall be paid for
each foot the vessel draws, as follows:
From sea to Hampton roads, or the compass buoys or
Yorktown:
Vessels drawing less than twelve feet, - “ = $2 50
Vessels drawing twelve feet and less than sixteen feet, 3 15
Vessels drawing sixteen feet and less than eighteen feet, 3 85
Vessels drawing eighteen feet and upwards, = - - 4 50

If the vessels shall be boarded or spoken twenty miles or
more eastward of Cape Henry, twenty-five cents per foot shall
be added to the foregoing rates.

From Hampton roads or the compass buoys, or Yorktown to
sea, there shall be paid as follows:

Vessels drawing less than twelve feet, . - = $2 15
Vessels drawing twelve feet and less than sixteen feet, 2 85
Vessels drawing sixteen feet and less than eighteen feet, 3 50
Vessels drawing eighteen feet and upwards, -~ - 415

From Hampton roads to Norfolk or Portsmouth or any place
between Hampton roads and said places, seventy cents per foot.

From Hampton roads to Jamestown, or any place between
Hampton roads and Jamestown, one dollar and thirty-five cents
per foot.

From Hampton roads to City Point or Bermuda Hundred,
or any place between Jamestown and City Point and Bermuda
Hundred, two dollars and sixty-five cents per foot. From
Hampton roads to Richmond, three dollars per foot; and the
same rates of pilotage shall be paid from said places, respec-
tively, down to Hampton roads. Vessels coming from sea to
Hampton roads, and from thence to any port in Maryland,
shall be subject to the same law and rates of pilotage as vessels
bound from Hampton roads to sea: provided, that for all steam
vessels plying regularly between any port in this commonwealth
and any foreign port, there shall be made a deduction of fifty
cents per foot on the foregoing rates from sea to Hampton roads
and from Hampton roads to sea.

8. The ninth section of the act aforesaid is hereby repealed,
and the twenty-fourth section of chapter ninety-two of the
code of eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby re-enacted to
read as follows:

§ 24. If any pilot offers his services within the capes toa
vessel from sea and such services are received, he shall have
only half the pilotage prescribed for conducting a vessel from
sea to Hampton roads.

9. The tenth section of the act aforesaid is hereby repealed ;
and the twenty-eighth section of chapter ninety-two of the Code
of eighteen hundred and sixty is hereby re-enacted 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 her into York river, Hampton roads,
Mobjack bay or to Urbana, or Smith's point, aforesaid, and to
receive the pilotage allowed by law.

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