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5. The commissioners may establish bye-laws for the further regu- 

 lation of pilots and for extra remuneration in cases of an extraor- 

 dinary nature, and for the adjustment angl decision of questions 

 arising between masters of vessels and pilots and others, respecting 

 pilotage, and also respecting the salvage of anchors and cables, and 

 may annex penalties for enforcing the same; but no bye-laws shall 

 be in force until approved of by the Governor in Council. 



6. Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, the com- 

 missioners may make regulations for the government of licensed 

 pilots and their apprentices, and for ensuring their sobriety and good 

 conduct and constant attendance to, and effectual performance of 

 their duty on board and on shore. 



7. Subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, the com- 

 missioners may make rules for punishing any breach of their regula- 

 tions by the withdrawal or suspension of the license or certificate of 

 the pilot guilty of such breach, or by the infliction of penalties upon 

 pilots or apprentices; so, however, that every such penalty be capable 

 of reduction at the discretion of the commissioners. 



8. The rates of pilotage payable by vessels entering or leaving the 

 port of St. John's, shall be as follows, when such vessels are hailed, 

 spoken or boarded by a licensed pilot to the southward or eastward of 

 Cape Spear, or to the northward of Sugar Loaf, and five-sixths of the 

 said rates when hailed, spoken or boarded inside of Cape Spear and to 

 the southward of Sugar Loaf, and before entering the Narrows. No 

 steam or sailing vessel returning to the said port, through stress of 

 weather, shall be compelled to take a pilot on her said return to the 

 said port, nor on her second departure therefrom; provided that 

 such steam or sailing vessel shall not have been gone from or re- 

 mained in such port during the whole space of twenty-four hours. 

 Nor shall any steam or sailing vessel which shall have proceeded from 

 the port of St. John's to any other port in this colony, on the same 

 voyage, be compelled to take a pilot on her said return to the said 

 port of St. John's, nor on her second departure therefrom ; provided 

 she shall not have been gone from the said port of St. John's for 

 twenty-four hours. Any pilot exacting a larger sum for his services. 

 or taking a less sum than is allowed by said rates, shall forfeit for 

 such offence the sum of eight dollars, and when he has exacted more, 

 shall refund the excess received by him. 



On vessels under eighty tons register measurement, five dollars and 

 thirty-five cents. 



On vessels from eighty to one hundred tons, six dollars and seventy 

 cents. 



On vessels from one hundred to one hundred and twenty tons, 

 seven dollars and thirty-five cents. 



On vessels from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and sixty 

 tons, eight dollars. 



On vessels from one hundred and sixty to two hundred tons, eight 

 dollars and seventy cents. 



On vessels from two hundred to two hundred and forty tons, nine 

 dollars and thirty-five cents. 



On vessels from two hundred and forty to two hundred and eighty 

 tons, ten dollars. 



On vessels from two hundred and eighty to three hundred tons, ten 

 dollars and seventy cents. 



