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ployed, as in the said sections specified, shall or shall not be wholly 

 or partially, and, if partially, to what extent and under what cir- 

 cumstances, exempted from the compulsory payment of pilotage 

 dues. 2 E. VII., c. 27, s. 1. 



479. When a ship arrives at the limits of any district in which the 

 payment of pilotage dues is, for the time being, compulsory and 

 within any part of which she is an exempted ship by reason of hav- 

 ing a master or mate possessing a pilotage certificate under this Part, 

 or is at a distance of five miles at least from the mouth of the har- 

 bour in any such district mentioned in the pilotage certificate of her 

 master or mate, whichever first happens, such master or mate shall 

 hoist a white flag not less than four feet by six feet at the main top 

 masthead, with the number of his certificate, in black figures six 

 inches long, in the center as a signal that the ship has a certificated 

 master or mate on board. R. S., c. 80, s. 60. 



480. If fhe master of an exempted ship not belonging to His Maj- 

 esty, or not wholly employed in His Majesty's service, arriving within 

 the limits of a pilotage district in which the payment of pilotage 

 dues is, for the time being, compulsory, 



(a) displays and continues to display the signal for a pilot in this 

 part provided, whilst within the limits prescribed for that 

 purpose, and does not accept the services of any licensed 

 pilot offering them in consequence of such signal ; or, 

 (5) without displaying or continuing to display the signal for a 

 pilot in this Part provided, whilst within the limits pre- 

 scribed for that purpose, employs any person not belonging 

 to his crew and not being a licensed pilot, to pilot or guide 

 such ship, whether or not a licensed pilot has offered his 

 services, 



such ship shall be liable to pay, if in the pilotage district of Quebec, 

 to the Quebec Pilots Corporation, and, it elsewhere, to the pilotage 

 authority of the district as pilotage dues, the same sum as would 

 have been payable to such licensed pilot if his services had been ac- 

 cepted. R. S., c. 80, s. 61. 



481. Every ship liable for pilotage dues and requiring the services 

 of a pilot, arriving at the limits of any district in which the payment 

 of pilotage dues is for the time being compulsory, shall, 



(a) until a licensed pilot has come on board ; or, 



(b) until the ship has passed a point, line or place, from time to 



time fixed in that behalf by the pilotage authority of the 

 district, 

 display such signal for a pilot, as is in this part provided. 



2. The master thereof, upon sighting a pilot boat carrying a pilot 

 or pilot lights, shall also, 



(a) by lying to, if the weather permits, or by shortening sail or 



heaving to; or, 



(I) if the ship is a steamer, by stopping his engines or by any 

 other practicable means, facilitate the coming on board of 

 the pilot or one of the pilots of such boat. R. S., c. 80, s. 62. 



482. Every such ship as to which the requirements of the last pre- 

 ceding section are not compiled with shall bo litib'e to pay. if in the 

 pilotage district of Quebec, to the Quebec Pilots Corporation, and, 

 if else\vl>ere, to the pilotage authority of the district, a sum not ex- 

 ceeding the amount of pilotage dues which would be payable for 

 piloting such ship. 



