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APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



1. There shall be five commissioners of pilots, three of whom shall 

 be a quorum, for the Port of St. John's, who shall act gratuitously, 

 and meet at least once a month. The appointment of such commis- 

 sioners shall be in the Governor in Council. Every commissioner 

 shall take the following oath before a Judge or Magistrate : 



1. A. B., do swear that I will act diligently, faithfully aiid impartially in the 

 discharge of the duties of a commissioner of pilots for the port of St. John's. 



2. The commissioners shall not license any one as a pilot except on 

 due examination they shall find him a fit person to act in that capacity, 

 and until the present number of pilots is reduced to nine, and there- 

 after never to exceed nine. No more pilots shall be licensed except 

 such persons as were apprenticed to licensed pilots and entered as 

 such in the commissioners' books three years prior to the passage of 

 this chapter. 



3. The commissioners shall grant certificates to licensed pilots in the 

 following form, and such certificates shall be revocable at pleasure: 



CERTIFICATE. 



No. PORT OF ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland. 



I, C. D., Chairman of the Board of Commissioners appointed by 

 law to examine and select pilots for the said port, do hereby certify 

 that E. F., having been examined by the said board, was deemed a 

 fit person to undertake the pilotage of vessels of every description 

 into and out of the said port, and on the day of , 



A.D. 18 , was by said board licensed to act in that capacity. 



(Signed) C. D., 



Chairman. 



Entered in the Register of Pilots' licenses, this day 



of , A.D., 18 . 



[This license can not be lent or transferred.] 



722 1. Every certificate granted to a licensed pilot shall be num- 



bered and registered in a book kept for that purpose and shall 

 be annually renewed. Pilots shall pay four dollars for every such 

 certificate; and in case of loss or defacing the same, not above two 

 dollars for a new certificate. No licensed pilot shall land or transfer 

 his certificate under a penalty of twenty dollars for the first offence, 

 and for a second offence shall lose his certificate, and shall not be 

 again licensed. Every licensed pilot shall pay annually eight dollars 

 to the secretary of the commissioners for the benefit of the pilots' 

 fund. 



