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13. Any person taking charge of any vessel as pilot, and not being 

 licensed, shall give up the guidance of the said vessel to the first 

 licensed pilot who shall board such vessel to the eastward of Small 

 Point, under a penalty of eight dollars. 



14. All ships and vessels shall be obliged to take or pay a pilot, 

 except Her Majesty's ships, vessels belonging to a royal yacht club, 

 coasting vessels, and vessels which have not been boarded, hailed or 

 spoken until after they have entered the Narrows; and no vessel 

 shall be deemed to be a coasting vessel and exempt from the liability 

 of taking a pilot unless such vessel shall have been usually employed 

 as a bona fide coaster, or if such vessel shall have on board any part 

 of a cargo imported in such vessel from any port or place out of this 

 colony, or if such vessel shall be going to any place out of this colony 

 or to any outport to load a cargo for any foreign market : Provided 

 that when, in consequence of stormy weather, extreme danger would 

 arise to any boat going outside the Narrows, the commissioners may 

 award pilotage to any pilot who shall in such case have offered his 

 services within the Narrows and have been rejected. For the pur- 

 poses of this chapter the entrance to the Narrows shall be defined by 

 a line drawn from the Northern Head to the Southern Head at the 

 entrance of this port. 



15. Nothing herein contained shall deprive any person who may 

 act as a pilot in the absence of licensed pilots, from receiving pay- 

 ment for his services according to the said table of rates, or to relieve 

 any licensed or other pilot from his responsibility to answer for the 

 amount of any loss sustained through his improper conduct in a 

 civil action at the suit of the party injured. 



16. The commissioners may hear and determine all claims for pilot- 

 age, salvage of anchors and cables, and remuneration for extraordi- 

 nary services in which pilots are concerned under the like forms and 

 proceedings used in the Sessions Court of Si. John's for the recovery 

 of small debts; and the amount of such commissioners' judgment and 

 the costs incident thereto to be taxed according to the Sessions Court 

 scale, shall be levied on the goods and chattels of the party against 

 whom such judgment is given, or on the vessel (except Her Majesty's 

 ships) on account of which such claim may have arisen. 



17. All penalties imposed by the foregoing sections of this chapter, 

 or hereafter to be imposed by any bye-law made by virtue thereof, 

 may be sued for and recovered before a stipendiary Magistrate or 

 any two of Her Majesty's Justices for the district of St. John's, and 

 shall be levied, with costs, by warrant of distress of such stipendiary 

 Magistrate or Justices on the goods of the offender; and for want 

 of goods, such Magistrate or Justices shall order such offender to be 

 imprisoned for a term not exceeding one day for every dollar in the 

 said penalties, or until such penalties shall be paid, and one-third of 

 such penalties shall go to the use of the person sueing for the same, 

 and the remainder together with the fees received for certificates, 

 shall form a fund in the hands of the commissioners to defray the 

 salary of the Secretary and other contingent expenses attending the 

 execution of the provisions of this chapter, and the surplus of such 

 fund, if any, shall be appropriated by them for the benefit of infirm 

 and disabled pilots. 



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