CHAPTER 619.
OF PILOTS AND PILOTAGE.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act regulating Pilots and Pilotage of and in the Bay and River Delaware."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
SECTION I. That the act entitled "An Act regulating Pilots and Pilotage of and in the Bay and River Delaware,
passed at Dover, April 5, 1881, as supplemented and amended by Chapters 145 and 554, of Volume 17 of the Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby annulled* by striking out all of Section 3 of said act, and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to wit:
*So enrolled.
"SECTION 3. That no license of the first or second class shall be granted to any person or persons except such person as have heretofore held or do now hold such license under the laws of this State, or shall have served a regular apprenticeship of at least six years to a licensed pilot of this State, on board of a Delaware Bay-and River pilot boat; nor shall any license be granted until the person applying shall have given bond, with sufficient surety, to the Governor of this State, in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of the duties and services required by this act and that he will not aid or assist in defrauding the revenue of the United States, and that he will deliver up the license to him granted when required by the board in pursuance of the provisions of this act, nor shall any license be granted to any person except such as may have been apprenticed prior to the first day of March A. D. 1889, until the number of pilots licensed under the laws of this State shall have been reduced to forty, and thereafter such number of forty shall not be exceeded. Whenever and as often as a vacancy shall occur by reason of the number of pilots being reduced to less than forty, a license shall be granted to the senior apprentice who has served six years, and is otherwise duly qualified under the laws of this State; Provided, That no person shall be entitled to a license as pilot for any branch, without first having under the immediate inspection of his master, or a pilot of the first branch, conducted a square-rigged vessel, (at least brig rigged) twenty times up and twenty times down the river and bay.
SECTION 2. That Section 5 of said act be, and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the words "such as are
solely coal laden," in the third line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words following, to wit: "American vessels whose cargoes are exclusively of coal mined in the United States," and by striking out all after the word "of" in the ninth line of said section, and before the word "and" in the tenth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words following, to wit: "A straight line from Cape Henlopen Light to Cape May Light" and by adding at the end of said section the words following, to wit: Any pilot retained as pilot on a vessel inward bound to the Delaware Breakwater, shall be allowed detention money at the rate of three dollars for every twenty-four hours, or any portion thereof that he may have been so retained; after the expiration of twenty four hours from the time the anchor shall have been let go, off the Breakwater. If a vessel is eventually ordered to Philadelphia, or other port on the Delaware Bay or river, and the same pilot has been retained, the total charge for inward pilotage shall be one full inward pilotage and detention money as above provided. If the pilot is discharged at the Breakwater, and the same or another pilot afterward employed to pilot the vessel to Philadelphia, or other port on the Delaware Bay or river, the total inward pilotage shall amount to one and one-half inward pilotage, and detention money as above provided.
SECTION 3. That Section 12 of said act be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the words "inward bound" in the first and second lines of said section, and by inserting between the word "by" and the word "ice" in the third line of said section, the words following, to wit: "Order of the master, owner, or consignee of such vessel or by quarantine or," and by striking out the word "him" in the third line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words following, to wit: "such pilot," and by striking out the words "after being so detained for forty-eight hours," in the fourth and fifth lines of said section, and by striking out the words "as if he had conducted such ship or vessel to her port of destination," in the seventh and eighth lines of said section, and by striking out the words "in case such pilot shall be detained more than forty-eight hours," in the eighth and ninth lines of said section.
SECTION 4. That the said act be and the same is hereby further amended by striking out all of Section 18 of said act, and inserting in lieu thereof, the following, to wit:
"SECTION 18. The fees for pilotage are hereby established as follows: For every merchant vessel propelled by steam or sails and not exempted from pilotage by virtue of these regulations, inward bound, spoken outside of a straight line southward and eastward of Fenwick's Island Light House, to Five Fathom Bank Light Ship, and northward and eastward from Five Fathom Bank Light Ship to Hereford Light House, drawing next* more than twelve feet, four 11/100 dollars per foot. For every such vessel inward bound, drawing over twelve feet, four 95/100 dollars per foot. For every such vessel, inward bound, spoken inside of the above line and outside of a straight line drawn from Cape Henlopen Light to Cape May Light, drawing not more than twelve feet, three 74/100 dollars per foot;
*So enrolled.
drawing over twelve feet, four 50/100 dollars per foot. For every such vessel, inward bound, spoken inside a straight line from Cape Henlopen Light to Cape May Light, drawing not more than twelve feet, three 37/100 dollars per foot; drawing over twelve feet four 5/100 dollars per foot. For every such vessel, outward bound, drawing not more than twelve feet, three 74/100 dollars per foot. For every such vessel outward bound, drawing over twelve feet, four 50/100 dollars per foot. Every such vessel bound to the Breakwater for orders, shall pay pilotage fees as follows: A sum equal to one-half of the inward rates of pilotage to the port of Philadelphia, and the same fees when outward bound from the Breakwater.
SECTION 5. That this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and all acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
Passed at Dover, April 25, 1889.